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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Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent in the early ages of Christianity, was called Sitientes, taken from the first word of the original Introit of the Mass meaning "Thirsting." The Church was addressing her catechumens in the words of Isaiah and invites them to thirst after the grace to come and receive it…

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