Headlines for November 17, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Cardinal Cupich, Bishop Strickland, other prelates discuss McCarrick Report
 Nuncio, in address to US bishops, calls for ‘Samaritan Church to heal the world’
 Pandemic is a time for heroic Christian witness, Archbishop Gomez tells fellow bishops
 Vatican investigation of California bishop for handling of abuse
 Police stop baptism in London church
 Tumult over sex abuse, abortion and corruption grips Church in Latin America
 English bishop calls on government to protect prisoners during 2nd Covid wave
 Ghana: bishops denounce secession movement
 Ecuador’s Cardinal Vela Chiriboga dead at 86
 Bangladeshi bishops meet PM to promise cooperation
 42 Catholic institutions divest from fossil fuels
 Sex-abuse claims against Boy Scouts now surpass 82,000
 Bishop warns of intensifying violence in Mozambique
 EU bishops’ commission calls for ‘people-centered, sustainable, and multilateral’ Arctic policy
 Bishops shouldn’t investigate one another, Washington Post says in editorial
 Ecuador’s bishops: ‘We want to be signs of unity, communion and hope for all’

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Today is the Memorial of St. Alphonsus de Liguori (1696-1787). Alphonsus was a great preacher of the Gospel to the poor. His charity and apostolic spirit led him to found the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer to carry on this work. He sent his Redemptorists, as our Lord did the Apostles, into the…

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