Headlines for November 20, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

 English court orders Vatican to turn over internal messages on London deal
 Pope meets with leaders of Roman Curia
 Protect, listen, and heal: papal encouragement for Italian bishops’ efforts to address sexual abuse
 Treat patients with closeness, compassion, and tenderness, Pope tells physicians
 ‘Showered with gifts, we are called in turn to make ourselves a gift,’ Pope preaches on World Day of the Poor
 Do not choose fear, but trust in the Lord, Pope tells pilgrims
 Argentina’s president-elect is critic of Pope Francis
 Renewed papal appeal for peace in Myanmar, Ukraine, Israel and Palestine
 Church of England approves blessings for same-sex couples
 Mexican archbishop defends show of LGBT flags at church funeral
 Iraq’s president meets with Pontiff
 ‘Trans women’ welcomed as papal guests
 Ohio priest sentenced to life in prison for sex-trafficking convictions
 20 Spanish Civil War martyrs beatified in Seville

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Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Holy Day of Obligation. On November 1, 1950, Pius XII defined the dogma of the Assumption. Thus he solemnly proclaimed that the belief whereby the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the close of her earthly life, was taken up,…

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