Headlines for November 19, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Archbishop Roche: ‘Let us go back to what the Council required of the Church’
 Pope denounces child labor
 Biden administration to drop religious-freedom protection for child-welfare agencies
 Oklahoma archbishop lauds governor’s clemency in death-penalty case
 Pope sees dialogue as key to ‘new culture’
 ‘Let the pastors not be afraid to listen to the flock,’ Cardinal Grech tells US bishops
 Slovak lawmakers narrowly reject modest pro-life measure
 Ghana’s bishops urge faithful to receive Covid vaccine, lament LGBTQIA+’s ‘socio-moral canker’
 Rome’s new mayor, Pope Francis discuss 2025 jubilee year
 ‘Astounding statistics’: Vatican message refers to scope of abuse in France, Australia
 Vatican statement cites safety problems in fishing industry
 Survey: Americans’ support for religious freedom increases
 US bishops: review of charter for protecting youth to start 3 years early
 Cardinal Pell speaks about prison experience, says Church is going through ‘hard patch’
 In India, radical Hindus accuse 2 nuns of illegal conversions
 ‘Pope Francis Sent Me a Letter. It Gives Me Hope as a Gay Catholic.’

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Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641). St. Jane was a married woman and a mother of seven children from Dijon, France. Her husband was killed in a hunting accident. In 1604, upon being deeply moved by the preaching of Francis de Sales, Jane asked him to become her…

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