Headlines for October 29, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Biden denied Communion because of abortion advocacy
 Italian bishops’ agency published prayer to Pachamama
 Turkish forces doing ‘soft’ ethnic cleansing in northeast Syria, advocate warns
 Report warns: Christianity may disappear from Syria and Iraq
 British abuse inquiry raps approach of Vatican, English cardinal
 In the struggle between good and evil, choose salvation, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Vatican diplomat calls for protection of rights of unborn, expresses ‘deep concern’ about sex education
 Christians, Jews, Muslims sign interfaith statement rejecting euthanasia
 Texas court: police must return documents to Dallas diocese
 Irish bishop warns against yoga in schools
 Maronite patriarch speaks out against Hezbollah’s ‘red lines’ in Lebanon
 San Diego bishop supports synod call to study diaconate for women
 Nigerian bishop reflects on Europe’s secularization
 USCCB grants $9.9M to home mission dioceses
 Brownback shares ambitions of $25M campaign to protect holy sites

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Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest & Doctor of the Church

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Lawrence of Brindisi (1559-1619), the first Capuchin Franciscan to be honored as a Doctor. St. Lawrence was born in 1559 at Brindisi, a town located on the Adriatic coast of the heel of Italy. Educated from his youth by the Conventual Franciscan Friars, he acquired…

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