Headlines for October 30, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Theme of Pope’s general audience: ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us’
 Vatican spokesman, responding to concerns about synod, emphasizes that doctrine develops
 Italian bishops’ agency’s prayer to Pachamama originated in South America
 Biden’s diocese rejects ‘politicizing the Eucharist’
 Christian hope is like the air we breathe, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Judge blocks Alabama law restricting abortion
 ‘Demonic sacrilege’: Brazilian bishop condemns Vatican gardens’ ‘Pachamama’ ritual
 The Rosary ‘represents our non-violent resistance’ to tyranny, Hong Kong bishop says
 Despite al-Baghdadi’s death, ISIS remains a major threat in Southeast Asia
 German bishops publish statutes for ‘synodal journey’
 Amazon governors, meeting after synod, support ‘green economy’
 Mexican priest who runs shelter extorted, later attacked
 Cardinal Dolan discusses priestly celibacy, abuse scandal
 Archbishop Chaput sees ‘safe’ drug injection sites as ‘dose of despair’

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