Headlines for November 17, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Eucharist document in focus as US bishops begin discussions
 Pope Francis begins Wednesday general audience series on St. Joseph
 Pope Francis: Refugees are ending up in a ‘desert of humanity’
 Defense moves to dismiss charges in Vatican finance trial
 Ukrainian Catholic leader tells the Pope about the problems of Ukrainian society
 Oklahoma attorney general cites Catholic hospital for violating religious freedom
 Church’s evangelizing mission can heal division, Archbishop Gomez tells US bishops
 Vatican official: COP26 outcome was ‘insufficient’
 Pope salutes bishops’ justice-and-peace commissions
 Biden administration rolling back religious-freedom protections?
 In Myanmar, Church transforms seminaries, convents into clinics, hospitals
 ‘No desire for truth’ in Church in Spain over child sex abuse, victims charge
 Latin American bishops’ assembly to learn from indigenous communal work
 Leading Russian Orthodox official criticizes ‘demythologizing’ Scripture scholars of 19th, 20th centuries
 Pope splits Venezuelan archdiocese in 2
 Vatican hosts meeting on Covid era with bishops’ commissions
 Vatican newspaper laments EU’s ‘staggering gap’ between words and deeds on migrants

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Today the Church returns to Ordinary Time, the Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time. The Church in Canada celebrates the Memorial of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700), renowned for her work, her spirituality and her impact on society and the Church in North America. In 1982 Pope St. John Paul…

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