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Headlines for December 11, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Peter’s Pence funds used to ease Vatican budget deficit
 ‘Martyrdom is the air of the life of a Christian’: Pope reflects on St. Paul as a prisoner before King Agrippa
 Vatican officials used complicated financial deals to hide bank bailout
 Two guards hurt in attack on National Shrine
 Be courageous in peace negotiations with Russia, Ukrainian Catholic leader tells nation’s president
 God corrects and comforts us with tenderness, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Islamist militia has slaughtered hundreds of Nigerian Christians this year, report finds
 US commission raises alarm about speech laws that restrict religious freedom in Africa
 Vatican cardinal holds ‘brainstorming meeting’ with repsentatives of World Council of Churches
 Vatican hosts symposium on palliative care and elderly mental health
 Peoria bishop announces novena ‘to remove all obstacles’ to Archbishop Sheen’s beatification
 Pastor of nation’s largest parish placed on leave
 California attorney general subpoenas all the state’s dioceses
 Take additional steps to eliminate nuclear weapons, Vatican diplomat urges
 A year after attack on Strasbourg Christmas market, 2 arrested for pledging allegiance to ISIS there
 Pope makes surprise visit to crèche exhibition

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Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, Priest

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552), who was born in the castle of Xavier in Navarre, Spain. In 1525 he went to Paris where he met St. Ignatius Loyola and with whom he received Holy Orders in Venice in 1537. In 1540 he was sent to evangelize India. He labored in western…

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