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News from the Vatican
- COVID-19 restrictions offer chance to support rural tourism, Vatican says
  
  The drastic reduction in people’s mobility because of the COVID-19 pandemic could be an opportunity for moving one’s heart and mind instead — and for finding other ways to be close to and supportive...
- New appointees to Francis’s financial powerhouse signal progress of women
  
  The recent appointment of six women to the Vatican's chief financial body has been praised as a significant stride in Pope Francis's consistent insistence that more women are needed in leadership...
- Pope on Hiroshima: Possession of nuclear weapons ‘immoral’
  
  Pope Francis on Thursday marked the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima by calling for peace and repeating that not only the use of atomic weapons but their mere possession is immoral.
Catholic News Service
- Update: Lebanon's Catholic leaders seek help; here's where you can donate
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Aziz Taher, Reuters By BEIRUT (CNS) -- As Lebanon's Catholic leaders appealed for help for their country, international and U.S. organizations appealed for donations for Beirut...
- Priest's 100-mile bike ride raises COVID-19 aid for parish -- and hope
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Brooklyn By Ian Alvano WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father Christopher Heanue started his morning July 27 by celebrating Mass at 5 a.m. and then took off on a 100-mile...
- Weapons must be set aside for peace to flourish, pope says
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Yuriko Nakao, Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For peace to flourish, weapons of war must be set aside, especially nuclear weapons that can obliterate entire cities and...
National Catholic Register
- St. Joseph is a True and Real Father
  
  By Fr. Stanley Smolenski | The question concerning Joseph’s paternity is whether he was a true father or if his was an honorary title. Some consider Joseph’s paternity of Jesus to be based on his...
- Saint Stories for Daily Reading
  
  By Brian O’Neel | SAINTS Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year By Dawn Marie Beutner Ignatius Press, 2020 548 pages, $27.95 To order: ignatius.com or (800) 651-1531 The canon...
- These Saints Bore the Stigmata, the Marks of Jesus
  
  By Kevin Di Camillo | In his TV series and accompanying book, Civilisation, Sir Kenneth Clark refers to “the rarest of experiences: spiritual ecstasy.” While spiritual ecstasy is indeed very rare ...