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Stories for October 2019

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Released Thursday, Oct. 31

 Tehran frees 7 political prisoners, including Christian convert
 1st public priestly ordination in 70 years in China
 Vatican diplomat reaffirms Holy See’s opposition to ‘legalizing drug use as a means to fight drug addiction’
 US commission alarmed over systematic church closures in Algeria
 Fired Indianapolis Catholic school counselor files lawsuit
 Lebanon’s Maronite bishops call for unity as prime minister resigns
 Some Kenyan prelates, physicians express concern about vaccination campaign
 Vatican cardinal calls on faithful to ‘run to the confessional,’ gain indulgences in early November
 Pope issues appeal for ‘beloved Iraq’
 Vatican Secretary of State says he will shed light on ‘opaque’ London property buy
 Cardinal Becciu rejects charges in Vatican probe
 USCCB: prelate urges nation’s faithful to pray for end of California fires
 Madonna statue returned by Britons to Argentina at Vatican
 Bishop Schneider condemns Pachamama statue as ‘new golden calf’

Released Wednesday, Oct. 30

 Judge blocks Alabama law restricting abortion
 Biden’s diocese rejects ‘politicizing the Eucharist’
 ‘Demonic sacrilege’: Brazilian bishop condemns Vatican gardens’ ‘Pachamama’ ritual
 Despite al-Baghdadi’s death, ISIS remains a major threat in Southeast Asia
 German bishops publish statutes for ‘synodal journey’
 Cardinal Dolan discusses priestly celibacy, abuse scandal
 Amazon governors, meeting after synod, support ‘green economy’
 The Rosary ‘represents our non-violent resistance’ to tyranny, Hong Kong bishop says
 Mexican priest who runs shelter extorted, later attacked
 Archbishop Chaput sees ‘safe’ drug injection sites as ‘dose of despair’
 Theme of Pope’s general audience: ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us’
 Christian hope is like the air we breathe, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Vatican spokesman, responding to concerns about synod, emphasizes that doctrine develops
 Italian bishops’ agency’s prayer to Pachamama originated in South America

Released Tuesday, Oct. 29

 Texas court: police must return documents to Dallas diocese
 British abuse inquiry raps approach of Vatican, English cardinal
 Biden denied Communion because of abortion advocacy
 Irish bishop warns against yoga in schools
 Nigerian bishop reflects on Europe’s secularization
 Maronite patriarch speaks out against Hezbollah’s ‘red lines’ in Lebanon
 Vatican diplomat calls for protection of rights of unborn, expresses ‘deep concern’ about sex education
 Turkish forces doing ‘soft’ ethnic cleansing in northeast Syria, advocate warns
 Report warns: Christianity may disappear from Syria and Iraq
 San Diego bishop supports synod call to study diaconate for women
 USCCB grants $9.9M to home mission dioceses
 In the struggle between good and evil, choose salvation, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Christians, Jews, Muslims sign interfaith statement rejecting euthanasia
 Brownback shares ambitions of $25M campaign to protect holy sites
 Italian bishops’ agency published prayer to Pachamama

Released Monday, Oct. 28

 Police warn to pickpocketing surge at Lourdes
 No longer ‘secret’—Pope renames Vatican archives
 Schedule set for Pope’s November trip to Thailand, Japan
 280 sex abuse claims in Guam
 Bishop Bransfield secretly sent money from Church hospital to Cardinal Farrell in Rome
 Washington Post criticizes Vatican for delay in McCarrick report
 Vatican diplomat calls for protection of migrant women, action against human trafficking
 ‘Avoid further bloodshed,’ Chile’s bishops plead
 Pontifical academy hosts Amazonian governors’ summit
 ‘To be servants of Our Lady, of hope’: Pope addresses Servite Order
 Pachamama images reappear at synod’s closing session
 Pope encourages faithful to pray the Rosary
 Amazon synod’s final document calls for married priests and discussion of female deacons
 In synod’s closing address, Pope reflects on cultural, ecological, social, and pastoral challenges
 Pope appeals for Lebanon amid widespread protests
 The cry of the poor and the earth reaches us from the Amazon, Pope tells pilgrims
 Preaching on prayer of Pharisee, tax collector, and poor person, Pope closes Amazon synod

Released Friday, Oct. 25

 Pope apologizes for Pachamama destruction
 Vatican offers official response to ecumenical document on the Church
 US government commission holds hearing on protecting houses of worship, holy sites
 Notorious former priest O’Grady arrested in Portugal
 3 lawsuits allege sexual abuse by late Long Island bishop
 As government investigation continues, Cardinal Nichols reflects on ‘safeguarding in the Church today’
 Political maneuvering at Pan-Amazon Synod? Vatican official says no
 ‘Our Mother Earth’: Vatican publishes new book by Pope Francis on the environment
 Haitian Catholics march for political reform as protests spread
 Cardinal Schönborn compares criticism of Pope Francis, St. Paul VI
 Papal message to World Water Summit
 How the Church in Australia is working to eradicate modern slavery
 Federal judge rejects requiring doctors to perform transition surgery, abortions
 American Nobel laureate named to Pontifical Academy of Sciences
 Seton Hall silent on allegations of homosexual subculture at its seminaries

Released Thursday, Oct. 24

 New revelations of illicit Vatican financial transactions
 Vatican diplomat decries abortions of disabled children
 Chinese authorities crack down on mainland house churches with Hong Kong ties
 Chaldean patriarchate expresses solidarity with Iraqi protestors
 Over past 50 years, Redemptorist missionaries have baptized 40,000 in Vietnamese province
 Bolivian bishop at synod: Change Church structures to eliminate ‘sickness’ of clericalism
 Pope appeals for dialogue in Chile
 EU bishops discuss ecology
 Themes of synod press briefing: women, interculturality, synodality
 Colorado attorney general: 43 priests abused 166 minors over past 70 years
 Nun who accused Indian bishop of rape files defamation complaint
 Illinois chief justice: ‘I no longer have faith in the hierarchy’ to address abuse crisis
 Bankruptcy court approves Minnesota diocese’s $39M settlement with abuse victims
 Moscow Patriarchate penalizes pro-Ukrainian Greek bishops
 US Attorney General Barr sees ‘growing refusal’ to accommodate free exercise of religion

Released Wednesday, Oct. 23

 India: police seize assets of Jesuit activist
 Key figure at Synod reveals women already presiding at liturgies
 Vatican financial-oversight agency fully backs suspended director
 Hong Kong bishops call for independent inquiry into police violence
 Florida bishops: Stay execution of man convicted of 1985 murder
 Focus more on peace, not power-sharing, say South Sudan bishops
 In Bangladesh, priest baptizes half of village’s families on single day
 In lenghty address, Vatican Secretary of State calls for ‘effective multilateralism’
 Influential Jesuit editor sees prophecy as synod’s key theme
 Theme of Pope’s general audience: ‘God opened a door of faith to the Gentiles’
 Themes of synod press briefing: networking, responsibility, climate change
 Cardinal Hummes will head committee to write Amazon synod’s final document
 Vatican spokesman denounces ‘new iconoclasts’ who threw Amazonian images into Tiber
 Nearly 200 Russian Orthodox priests sign open letter criticizing Putin regime
 Pompeo highlights religious freedom, pro-life goals as among US priorities
 Syrians flee to Iraq as cease-fire set to expire

Released Tuesday, Oct. 22

  Archdiocese of Baltimore to build first Catholic school in 60 years
 Texas grand jury declines to indict former Houston vicar general in abuse case
 Vatican official denies risk of default
 June 2020 beatification for Cardinal Wyszynski
 Archbishop Viganò decries ‘aberrant and sacrilegious pagan rites’ during synod
 Amazonian ‘Way of the Cross’ prayed during synod
 Vatican publishes excerpts of Pope’s new book on prayer
 Small island states: Vatican Secretary of State expresses concerns about development, climate change
 US bishops’ staff members analyze Supreme Court sexual orientation, gender identity cases
 Lebanon’s Catholic patriarchs support protesters seeking economic reforms
 Mexican bishops call for peace, conversion amid growing violence
 Chile’s bishops condemn violence, urge leaders to listen to those facing economic challenges
 European Christian leaders lament populism
 Anglican primate pays tribute to St. John Henry Newman
 Honduran bishops: Evangelizing also means denouncing
 Mission schools attacked in Niger
 Cardinal Hummes, other synod fathers renew 1965 ‘pact of the catacombs’
 Synod’s final document drafted
 Help seafarers come to know Jesus Christ, Pope tells ecumenical group

Released Monday, Oct. 21

 Vatican message to world’s Hindus puts stress on work for peace
 Bishops join in “catacomb pact” for Amazon environment
 Leaked documents expose Vatican financial scandal
 Pachamama icons taken from Roman church, thrown in Tiber
 ‘An app in exile’: China’s most popular Bible app faces government censorship
 Cardinal Schönborn asks: Why so few permanent deacons in the Amazon region?
 US missionary bishop calls for ‘preferential option for the Amazon’
 Indigenous vow to stand with Pope Francis, with each other
 Bombay high court strikes down legal force of Goa’s Church marriage decisions
 Peruvian Jesuit cardinal: ‘Even some indigenous communities do not want married priests’
 Martyred missionary priest beatified in Myanmar
 Witness to the Gospel and pray for missionaries, Pope tells pilgrims
 ‘Go and show love to everyone, because your life is a precious mission,’ Pope preaches on World Mission Sunday
 Worldwide Catholic population increases slightly; number of priests, religious, and seminarians declines
 Pope pays tribute to Vatican Ethnological Museum’s openness to all cultures
 Reports of small working groups presented at synod
 Vatican hosts seminar on cooperation between Church, international organizations in Amazon region

Released Friday, Oct. 18

 Bishop advocates reconciliation commission in Guinea-Bissau
 Brazilian prelate ducks question on Ford Foundation funding
 Data show mass exodus from Catholic Church in Amazon region
 Multiple new abuse claims lodged against McCarrick
 Newman canonization the ‘experience of a thousand lifetimes,’ says cured Chicago mother
 In US, decline of Christianity continues at rapid pace
 Australia to amend religious freedom legislation to consider health facilities
 Financial Times examines ‘Vatican’s money trail to prime London property’
 Background: World Mission Sunday
 ‘Nature has rights,’ synod participant says at press briefing
 40 indigenous persons meet with Pope
 Brazilian bishop insists that the Amazon’s indigenous people can understand celibacy
 Caritas works to help Syrians displaced by Turkish bombings
 Algerian officials close 2 more Protestant churches
 Vatican backs dismissal of Indian nun who protested against bishop accused of rape
 Following Turkish invasion of Syria, prelate calls on Catholics in US to ‘beseech our Lord’ for peace

Released Thursday, Oct. 17

 Venezuelan bishop: why so many priests in Rome?
 Kenyan priest abducted and killed
 New York City mayor accuses New York governor of politicizing Mother Cabrini statue
 Catholic anti-nuclear activists may not raise religious-freedom defense, judge rules
 Constantinople, Moscow patriarchs write forewords to books by Pope Francis
 As Turkey invades Syria, Baghdad bishop has ‘strong fear’ of return of ISIS
 CDF determines abuse allegation against Texas bishop is ‘manifestly unfounded’
 Drug trafficking has ‘permeated our country’s institutions,’ Honduran bishops say
 Franciscan, Maryknoll organizations’ members among those arrested at Capitol refugee protest
 ‘We feel the scorch of climate change and ecological crisis,’ Suriname bishop says
 Controversial feminine image at synod resprents life, leading Vatican official says
 Vatican prefect summarizes synod’s main themes
 Pope Francis lauds St. John Paul II, St. Luke
 Pope greets delegation from NATO’s international military college
 Rupture with Constantinople over Ukraine has not damaged us, leading Russian Orthodox official says
 Vatican employees sad, surprised, dispirited by security chief’s departure

Released Wednesday, Oct. 16

 Nigerian bishop favors border wall for his country
 Cardinal Pell’s lawyers urge high court to accept appeal
 ‘Night will be no more’: El Paso bishop reflects on racism and white supremacy
 To be freed from hypocrisy, learn to point the finger at yourself, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Synod participants discuss permanent episcopal Pan-Amazonian structure
 California sex abuse law likely to spur thousands of claims
 Non-Catholic indigenous woman brings message from her elders to Pope
 Synod fathers reject ‘inter-Christian colonialism’ and proselytism, Vatican prefect says
 On World Food Day, Pope Francis calls for ‘conversion in our way of living and acting’
 UN, bishops’ conference mediate in strife-torn Ecuador
 Pope, in general audience, reflects on St. Peter and the outpouring of the Holy Sprit upon the Gentiles
 Study ‘definitively refutes the idea that being gay is an innate condition’
 ‘Leaving room for the abundant outpouring of the Spirit’: Vatican summary of synod day 8
 Apostleship of Prayer launches ‘Click To Pray eRosary’
 Turkey’s invasion of Syria strikes blow against Christians
 National Council on Disability warns of danger of assisted suicide laws

Released Tuesday, Oct. 15

 Pope names prelates to Synod’s drafting committee
 New head named for Vatican Gendarmerie
 Indian archbishop dies in California car crash
 Vatican’s Secretary of State affirms support for persecuted Christians, religious freedom
 Cardinal Sarah: To oppose the Pope is to be outside the Church
 Amid Brexit, Church in Europe navigates competing perspectives over the future
 4th lawsuit alleges sexual abuse by former bishop
 In new case, UK court authorizes forced abortion for disabled woman
 Ethiopia’s evangelical prime minister wins Nobel Peace Prize
 Vatican cardinal: We must help the Amazon’s people ‘open up to modernity’
 Bishop, at synod press briefing, affirms Vatican’s respect for Brazil’s sovereignty
 Journalist analyzes Amazon synod’s working groups
 Laity, women, sexual abuse, water: Amazon synod discussions continue
 Pope greets Italy’s national soccer team following visit to Vatican children’s hospital
 ‘Neglected and abandoned by this world’: Syriac Catholic patriarch pleads for peace in northeastern Syria

Released Monday, Oct. 14

 Vatican police chief resigns as financial investigation continues
 Bolivian bishops call for transparent elections
 Greek Orthodox recognize new Ukrainian Orthodox body
 Syrian prelate denounces US, Europe for betraying Kurds, helping Islamists
 Prince Charles pays tribute to St. John Henry Newman
 Advocates urge Trump not to desert Christians, Yazidis, Kurds in Syria
 60 million girls missing because of selective abortions in India
 Listen to the cry of Hong Kong’s citizens, Cardinal Tong urges government
 Mexico City’s cardinal sees integral ecology as Church’s response to the cry of the poor
 Synod press briefing: bishops speak of challenge of understanding Church discipline
 Synod fathers discuss women deacons, ordination of married men to priesthood
 Fostering an abiding sacramental presence in Amazon is key synod theme, San Diego bishop says
 Pope calls for peace in Ecuador
 Pope appeals for dialogue for Syria following Turkish invasion
 ‘To cry out, to walk, to give thanks’: Pope Francis canonizes John Henry Newman, 4 other blesseds
 Pontifical academy hosts symposium on dignity and the future of work
 Syro-Malabar prelate warns of declining birth rate, lack of marriage prospects for Christian men

Released Friday, Oct. 11

 Irish government relents, will send representative to Newman canonization
 Insurer: no coverage for Buffalo diocese in cover-up cases
 Alabama-born prelate to lead school for future Vatican diplomats
 Christ cares deeply for the mentally ill, English bishop says
 God’s love has healed the wounds of colonialism, leading Philippine prelate says
 Vatican’s Secetary of State calls for support for Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
 Lousiville archbishop lends support to parish’s declaration of ‘sanctuary’ status for immigrants
 Central African Christians, Muslims work through trauma together
 Benedictine monk, in prestigious NEH lecture, warns that society is losing its ability to listen
 Aleppo archbishop condemns Turkish military offensive in Syria
 Witness to Christ in meekness and poverty, Pope tells Capuchin Franciscan friars
 Reforms have ‘completely renewed’ the Vatican Bank, its president says in 1st interview
 Papal prayers for victims of attack on German synagogue
 Bishops, religious discuss Church’s missionary work in the Amazon
 Brazilian bishop says infanticide in Amazon ‘shocking’ but largely eliminated by Church
 Apostolic visitation: Brooklyn bishop interviews more than 30 people in Diocese of Buffalo

Released Thursday, Oct. 10

 Vatican accepts resignation of New York bishop accused of abuse
 Vatican: journalist misquoted Pope on Christ’s divinity
 Central NY bishop suspends parish consolidation following Vatican intervention
 Theme of Pope’s journey to Japan: ‘Protect all life’
 Pope sends thanks to Johor’s sultan for commuting death sentences of 3 Mexicans
 Little Sisters of the Poor appeal to the Supreme Court, again
 Director: Victims call new film on abuse the French ‘Spotlight‘
 Turkish planes bomb Syria, causing panic among Christians, others
 Survey: 86% of Catholic teens in US attend public school
 Bishop Bransfield under police investigation for alleged abuse of 9-year-old girl
 Beatification process begins for St. John Paul II’s parents
 Brazilian Cardinal Araujo dies at 95
 Vatican spokesman says the Amazon’s Catholic communities are crying out for the Eucharist
 ‘Some’ synod fathers propose female lay ministry for evangelization
 On day 3, Amazon synod fathers discuss drug trafficking, ecological conversion
 Pan-Amazon Synod ‘may be a step to’ women priests, key synod father says

Released Wednesday, Oct. 9

 Italian journalist: Pope does not believe Jesus is God
 Pope, at audience, warns against ‘selective ideology’
 Prosecutors urge Australian high court to ignore Pell appeal
 877 Catholic churches were vandalized in France in 2018
 6 girls, 2 staff members kidnapped from Christian high school in Nigeria
 ‘Fear and anger’ in border parishes as Brexit chaos nears
 Irish primate: ‘It is time to revive our missionary genes’
 Ointment miraculously flowing from famed Marian icon, Russian Orthodox official says
 In Sri Lanka, lawyer-priest leads claims for Easter victims
 Cardinal Turkson says Church needs to ‘exit’ clerical abuse scandals
 Pope Francis wants ‘total investigation’ of Diocese of Buffalo, apostolic nuncio says
 Haitian bishops’ commission calls on nation’s president to resign
 Women’s diaconate, Amazonian Mass rite discussed in Amazon synod’s opening days
 Ideology should not replace faith, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Court rules that Northern Ireland’s pro-life law violates EU human rights treaty
 USCCB asks Supreme Court not to redefine ‘sex’ to include ‘sexual orientation,’ ‘gender identity’

Released Tuesday, Oct. 8

 No Irish presence at Cardinal Newman canonization
 Nicaraguan cardinal: pray for those who persecute us
 In France, 500,000 march against artificial reproduction
 As unrest in Ecuador worsens, bishops call for peace, justice, dialogue
 Burkina Faso: 27 Christians murdered by jihadists in 2019
 3rd sexual abuse lawsuit filed against former Albany bishop
 As Turkey prepares to invade Syria, prelate warns of suffering children
 Over 2,000 aborted fetal remains found in rural Illinois are returned home to Indiana
 Supreme Court returns for high-profile cases on abortion, LGBT, and more
 ‘Wake up, Europe,’ continent’s bishops say in message
 Vatican spokesman weighs in on Amazon women religious who ‘hear confessions’
 Archbishop Viganò, in brief ‘fraternal correction,’ warns pastors against silence
 Pope offers best wishes to Jewish communities on holy days
 ‘From a receiving Church to a missionary Church’: prelate discusses Church in NE India
 Congress holds hearing on religious minorities’ fight to remain in Iraq
 British employment tribunal rules against doctor who objects to transgender pronoun policy
 3 current Supreme Court justices attend Red Mass

Released Monday, Oct. 7

 Pennsylvania attorney general opposes use of Church trust to pay abuse claims
 Cardinal promises carbon offsets for Synod meeting
 Synod official raises celibacy issue at opening session
 The Gospel is ‘our only resource,’ Damascus archbishop says
 Indonesian cabinet member praises Pope, welcomes appointment of new cardinal
 EU leader Donald Tusk meets with Pope, discusses populism
 Korean bishops: Announce the Gospel to the poorest
 ‘Pray and proclaim’: Pope Francis ordains 4 bishops
 Pope Emeritus Benedict receives new cardinals
 Remember Christ’s compassion, Pope preaches as he creates 13 new cardinals
 ‘So that the fire of mission will continue to burn’: Pope Francis opens Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region
 Pope encourages devotion to Our Lady of Pompei, prayers for synod
 Service is the measure of faith, Pope tells pilgrims
 Be bold missionaries during this winter of religious vocations, Pope tells Daugthers of St. Paul
 New Zealand bishop resigns over ‘unacceptable’ sexual relationship

Released Friday, Oct. 4

 Priest-abusers now living without supervision, AP reports
 Pope places Amazon Synod under patronage of St. Francis
 ‘What an incredible example of Christian love’: bishop praises man who forgives his brother’s killer
 Vatican authorizes apostolic visitation of Diocese of Buffalo
 Catholics pray for India on anniversary of Gandhi’s birth
 Ukrainian Catholic leader calls for continued vigilance in war
 Vatican unlikely to weigh in on Hong Kong protests, Catholic leaders say
 Northern Africa’s bishops welcome ‘important steps’ in relations with Islam
 Pope Francis, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hold private meeting
 Receiving the Word of God fills us with joy, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Northern Ireland’s Catholics left out of UK Brexit debate, primate says
 Bishops’ commission welcomes EU road safety program
 Sustainable development entails working for the common good, not ‘ideological colonization,’ Cardinal Parolin cautions
 ‘Laws that work and media that shames’: Vatican responds to suspension of 5 officials
 Witness to Christ and imitate His charity for others, Pope tells Ursulines

Released Thursday, Oct. 3

 Amazon Synod will focus on mission, ecology, organizers say
 Colombian priest killed; robbery suspected motive
 Miracle approved, beatification looms for Cardinal Wyszynski
 Pope underlines historic impact of Puebla meeting
 Hebei tightens control over religious activities
 Pakistan rejects attempt to allow non-Muslims to serve as prime minister, president
 Like St. Francis, Christians can bear witness to Christ among Muslims, bishop in Arabia says
 Missionary in Ivory Coast decries child sacrifices, suicides
 ‘Come and see’: Chaldean Patriarch inaugurates extraordinary missionary month in Iraq
 Virginia teacher fired for refusing to use transgender student’s preferred pronouns
 Amid political meltdown, Peru’s bishops urge fighting ‘cycle of corruption’
 Judge blocks Georgia’s pro-life heartbeat bill
 ‘Undisguisedly indifferent’: Bridgeport diocese issues report on its own abuse record
 California bishop, son of immigrants, reflects on El Paso shooting, discrimination against Hispanics
 USCCB approves revised certification standards, competencies for Catholic Campus Ministry Association
 Constantinople is our Mother Church, Ukrainian Catholic leader tells Ecumenical Patriarch
 ‘It is immoral to use nuclear energy to make war,’ Pope tells Japanese journalists
 Pontifical council marks 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth
 Vatican foreign minister meets with US officials, discusses religious freedom, human trafficking
 Jordan’s Prince Hassan meets with Pope

Released Wednesday, Oct. 2

 Five Vatican financial officials suspended after prosecutor’s raid
 US Secretary of State, at Vatican, cites Chinese violations of religious freedom
 ‘Indigenous cathedral’ planned for Brazil
 Vatican releases schedule for Pope’s November trip to Thailand, Japan
 Maltese bishop named to head Synod office
 Cardinal Ouellet defends celibacy, questions syncretism
 Philosopher Taylor awarded Ratzinger Prize
 2nd sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Bishop Bransfield
 Tucuna deacon prepares to become 1st priest from Amazonian tribe
 Ambassador emphasizes areas of agreement between Vatican and US
 Guatemalan cardinal-designate: ‘I cannot stop speaking out’ on behalf of the poor
 Judge rules in favor of Wisconsin Christian student in free speech case
 Myanmar cardinal decries religious leaders’ silence over killings
 Support pro-life candidates, leading Polish prelate exhorts voters
 Vatican’s Secretary of State calls for end of Syrian conflict, repeal of sanctions
 Haiti’s bishops link violence to government’s lack of concern for the poor
 ‘Be missionaries, not spectators,’ Burundi’s bishops urge
 Theme of Pope Francis’s general audience: ‘He told him the Good News about Jesus’
 ‘The Lord is calling you to bear witness,’ Pope preaches at beginning of extraordinary missionary month
 Video released for Pope’s monthly prayer intention
 Northern Ireland’s Catholic, Protestant leaders urge prayer, action to halt imposition of abortion legislation
 Vatican’s representative at the UN transferred to Spain

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