Headlines for November 12, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Ecumenical Patriarch to Biden: Citizens of the whole free world welcome your victory
 Mass beheading by jihadists reported in Mozambique
 Did McCarrick pay abuse settlements with funds from charity
 Police warn Irish priest who celebrated Mass despite lockdown
 Government restrictions on religion reach highest level globally in more than a decade
 Christian village in Bangladesh attacked over land dispute
 News accounts of McCarrick Report find blame levied at popes, others
 Maine Catholic churches voice frustration while limiting in-person attendance
 UK abuse scandal: Cardinal Nichols faces criticism over leadership
 Paraguay’s bishops rue corruption, rising poverty, displacement of indigenous from their territories
 Ethiopia’s bishops appeal for peace as threat of civil war looms
 Catholic mother, son murdered over Pakistan drain dispute
 Catholics and Disciples of Christ: a new dialogue document
 Polish archdiocese apologizes for cardinal abuse scandal
 Florida Catholic college ends recognition of faculty union
 Indonesian bishops call for dialogue in restive West Papua

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Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Sharbel (Charbel) Makhlūf, Priest

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The Optional Memorial of St. Sharbel Makhlūf (1828-1868) is celebrated today. He was a Lebanese monk, born in a small mountain village and ordained in 1858. Devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, he spent the last twenty-three years of his life as a hermit. Despite temptations to wealth and comfort, Saint…

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