Headlines for November 16, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope to poor: Your place is not at the door of churches, but in the heart of the Church
 Pope announces official launch of Laudato Si’ Action Platform
 New Orleans archdiocese to pay $1 million fine to settle fraud charges
 Demonstrators gather as US bishops begin meeting
 Some Salesians released, others still in custody in Ethiopia
 COP26 climate summit made progress but came up short, Catholic agencies say
 41 countries ban religion-related groups
 Papal trip to Florence announced
 Armed vandals attack 2 parishes in South Sudan; catechist killed
 Amid Church-state tensions, papal knighthood conferred on France’s Vatican ambassador
 ‘My gut tells me you can’t negotiate with these people’: Cardinal Dolan has concerns about Vatican-China dialogue
 Diocesan consolidations continue as Pope unites 2 Spanish dioceses
 Baltimore priest robbed, pistol-whipped near church

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Maurus (512-584), one of the first disciples of St. Benedict. In this son of a patrician Roman family, entrusted by his parents to the father of western monasticism, Benedictine tradition celebrates the perfect monk, and the model of childlike obedience. Many…

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