Headlines for November 23, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Reflect on ‘listening’ and ‘overflow,’ Pope urges Latin American Ecclesial Assembly
 Pope Francis reflects on Jesus’ liberating kingship
 The beauty of Christmas opens the heart to gratuitousness, Pope tells contest participants
 Papal encouragement to youth: be protagonists in Church’s mission
 US designates China, Russia, 8 others as ‘egregious’ violators of religious freedom
 Archbishop Cordileone writes to students after pro-life walk-out
 South Carolina bishop restricts Latin Mass
 Church among targets of Congo rebel attack
 Leading Russian Catholic priest resigns over Moscow church sale
 Former economy czar Cardinal Pell warns the Vatican is facing major deficit
 Vatican cardinal calls for ‘new cultural model’ to address ‘educational catastrophe’
 Bishop: Pakistan’s Christians are ‘the poorest of the poor’
 Vatican organizes conference on Dante

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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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