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Bishop Robert Brennan of Brooklyn urged prayer for those injured in a shooting at a subway station in the New York City borough on Tuesday, and for the first responders and transit workers. At least 23 people were injured amid a shooting on an N train at the 36th Street station on Tuesday morning. The shooter is at large, having thrown a smoke bomb to distract the crowd at the subway. Bishop Brennan visited Sunset Park, the Brooklyn neighborhood where the shooting occurred, yesterday afternoon.
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The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) expressed concern on Tuesday at plans for Ukrainian and Russian families to carry a cross together at the Stations of the Cross led by Pope Francis at Rome’s Colosseum on Good Friday. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said: “I consider such an idea untimely, ambiguous, and such that it does not take into account the context of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine.” Shevchuk said he had “received many appeals from the faithful of the Church and civil society, both from Ukraine and abroad,” asking him “to convey to the Holy See the great indignation and rejection of this plan by Ukrainians around the world.”
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Today the Church celebrates Pope Saint Martin the first, who suffered exile and humiliation for his defense of orthodoxy in a dispute over the relationship between Christ's human and divine natures.
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