Headlines for December 07, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Austrian bishops OK compulsory vaccination
 ‘Let us stop this shipwreck of civilization,’ Pope warns on Lesvos
 New Vatican norms for most serious crimes
 Pope: New meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch possible
 Bishops of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands decry ‘witchcraft, polygamy, war, and female homicide’
 2 German bishops question Church teaching on homosexual acts, transgenderism
 Australian archbishop raps new restrictions on freedoms of religious institutions
 Taiwan honored at Vatican display of Nativity scenes
 Hindu nationalists attack Catholic school in India
 Continued controversy over crucifixes in Italian classrooms
 Upcoming SCOTUS case focuses on religious education, ‘sectarian exclusion’
 Church in Portugal urges abuse victims to come forward
 Vatican diplomat weighs in on UN plan to combat human trafficking
 Student sues school over 1-game suspension, arguing gender policy infringes on speech, religious rights
 Apostolic nuncio to EU dies of Covid
 Boy Scouts abuse victims caught up in Chapter 11 lobbying

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Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

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Today's Roman Martyrology commemorates: —St. Willibald, first bishop of Eichstadt (700-781), son of St. Richard, king of England, and brother of St. Walburga, virgin, who labored with St. Boniface in preaching the Gospel, and converted many nations to Christ. —St. Pantaenus of…

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