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Headlines for October 16, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Venezuelan bishops support peaceful protests
 World hunger ‘shameful,’ Pope says in message to FAO
 Leading South Korean prelate calls for unconditional ban on abortion
 Federal judge overturns Tennessee’s law requiring waiting periods for abortions
 Vatican diplomat calls for unified international commitment to protect our common home
 Jewish groups hit NY Governor Cuomo with discrimination suit
 Bible institute not shielded from sex-discrimination lawsuits, federal court rules
 ‘Time is running out’ for Syria, cardinal warns
 Pope Francis names winner of 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics to pontifical academy
 Young Brazilian priest killed
 Newspaper investigates past abuse by Toronto’s Basilian priests
 ‘People want to know the truth’ about archbishops’ deaths, Congo prelate says
 Author Thomas Howard dead at 85
 In USA Today op-ed, philosophy professor raps bias against Catholic mothers of large families
 For first time, Brazilian Marian shrine celebrates feast day without pilgrimages
 USCCB book on racial injustice wins children’s book award
 Background: World Mission Sunday
 As abuse report looms, new nuncio in Great Britain meets with Pope

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Memorial of St. Benedict, Abbot

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Today is the Memorial of St. Benedict (480-547), who was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples…

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