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Six Catholic dioceses in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware, are the latest to announce plans to lift the dispensation from the Sunday obligation. The obligation will be reinstated in those dioceses beginning June 26. Dioceses in New Jersey, and several dioceses in upstate New York will lift the dispensation beginning on June 5, for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.
The International Society for Stem Cell Research has lifted a limitation on how long scientists can experiment on lab-grown embryos. For decades, researchers were prohibited from experimenting on lab-grown, human embryos, beyond 14 days of formation. Bioethicists have warned against the relaxation of the rule.
A community of Benedictine nuns, known for inventing and distributing low-gluten Communion hosts, has seen their business decimated by the pandemic. The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in Missouri said their business in 2020 dropped by about 75%. The sisters said business is increasing as dioceses reinstate the Sunday Mass obligation, but they doubt demand will reach pre-pandemic levels.
A historic Catholic abbey in Belgium is brewing beer again for the first time in 200 years. The Grimbergen Abbey, near Brussels, was forced to abandon beer-making, when the abbey was dissolved, following the French Revolution.
Today is the feast day of Saint Charles Lwanga, and many other martyrs killed for the faith in Uganda in the late 1880s.