Global Church News
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Daily Short Readings of the week: Sunday January 17 – Saturday January 23
Jan 15, 2021
I shall pour clean water over you and you will be cleansed; I shall cleanse you of all your defilement and all your idols. I shall give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you; I shall remove the heart of stone from your bodies and give you a heart of flesh instead.
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Fratelli Tutti shows path for proper treatment of migrants
Jan 15, 2021
In a blog post for the Catholic Migration Commission, Cardinal Michael Czerny describes the importance of 'Fratelli tutti' as applied to the plight of migrants and refugees.
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Rome university reverses decision to honour controversial Fr Pavone
Jan 15, 2021
For a variety of reasons, "especially in relation to the political situation" in the United States, the Legionaries of Christ university in Rome will
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French missionary's legacy lives on among Kolkata's poor
Jan 15, 2021
When Father François Laborde died at the age of 93 in India's Kolkata's city on Christmas Day, many close to him recalled his often-repeated words that the Indian poor evangelized him to be a better Christian.
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Sr. Christin Mary, advocate for India's domestic workers
Jan 15, 2021
Sister Christin Mary is a member of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, also known as ICM Sisters.
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Archbishop Machado Cheers Specially Abled Persons
Jan 15, 2021
Don Bosco Church, Lingarajapuram here organized a programme named ‘Caring for the disabled’, an event to honour 11 specially abled individuals and two Covid warriors in Bangalore on January 9.
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Abp of Tuam: Mother and Baby Report a cause for shame
Jan 15, 2021
The Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland, Michael Neary, calls the contents of the Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes “a cause for shame” and adds, “when a Church is not serving with compassion, it is failing.”
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Covid-19 kills Indonesian Priest, lays low Bishop
Jan 15, 2021
An Indonesian priest has died of Covid-19, while his bishop and several other priests in the same diocese have tested positive for the virus, a diocesan official in East Java revealed on Jan. 13.
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Abp Pizzaballa on his first pastoral visit to Jordan as Latin Patriarch
Jan 14, 2021
The new Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem undertakes his first pastoral visit to Jordan.
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The greenest parish in the world
Jan 14, 2021
Pope Francis’ special “Laudato sì” year is being marked across the world. A parish in Malaysia’s Penang State has pledged to become the “greenest” in the whole of the Malaysia and beyond.



Sunday Reflection
Second Sunday of Ordinary Time: Temples of God
A number of years ago, I came upon three very disappointed young ladies in our Life Teen Programme. They were just freshmen and had been looking forward to the Homecoming Dance, their first big high school dance. Well, the dance was not what they expected.