Headlines for November 16, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 ‘Reach out your hand to the poor,’ Pope tells pilgrims
 ‘Those who do not live to serve, serve for little in this life,’ Pope preaches on World Day of the Poor
 In Guyana, bishop assaulted during Mass
 Papal appeal for reconciliation and collaboration in Ivory Coast
 French Catholics protest for end to lockdown on Mass
 As Peru’s president resigns, bishops call for 2021 elections, fight against corruption
 Papal prayer for victims of Romania fire, Philippines floods
 Eastern patriarchs appeal for ‘true peace’ in Nagorno-Karabakh
 Cardinals-designate facing quarantine, trip cancellations due to pandemic
 Polish cardinal dies ten days after Vatican sanctions
 Sri Lankan cardinal condemns global selfishness
 In Pakistan, Christian imprisoned for alleged blasphemy given bail
 Archdiocese of NY demands city pay for Covid testing in hot-spot Catholic schools
 French hotline for Church sex abuse received 6,500 calls
 Seek common good rather than political compromise, DR Congo’s bishops tell nation’s president

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Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church

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The Optional Memorial of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church is in honor of the nameless followers of Christ brutally killed by the mad Emperor Nero as scapegoats for the fire in Rome. The pagan historian Tacitus and St. Clement of Rome tell of a night of horror (August 15, 64 A.D.) when in the…

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