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The US Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
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Ten people were killed and three others injured Saturday when a teenage gunman opened fire with an assault rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Authorities are calling the mass shooting a racially motivated hate crime and say the gunman specifically targeted the store because it is located in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The shooter is in custody. Bishop Michael Fisher of the Diocese of Buffalo said in a statement: “The scourge of senseless gun violence that has taken the lives of so many across our nation and changed the lives of countless innocent men, women and children must come to an end.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251244/bishop-condemns-abhorrently-evil-slaying-of-10-at-buffalo-supermarket
Pope Francis on Sunday recognized 10 new saints of the Catholic Church during a canonization Mass in St. Peter’s Square. It was the Church’s first canonization since that of St. John Henry Newman and four others in October 2019. For a full list of all the new saints, who include religious men and women, priests, and a lay man, go to Catholic New Agency dot com.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251242/pope-francis-canonizes-10-new-saints-of-the-catholic-church
A mob has attacked a Catholic cathedral in Nigeria amid protests demanding the release of two suspects in the killing of a Christian student. The Diocese of Sokoto said in a statement that youths targeted Holy Family Catholic Cathedral in Sokoto, north-west Nigeria, after police arrested two students in connection with the murder of Deborah Samuel. Samuel, a student at Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, was beaten and burned on May 11 after being accused of posting “blasphemous” statements about Islam in a WhatsApp group. Christians in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, have suffered growing insecurity in recent years amid attacks by the Islamist organization Boko Haram and the Fulani Militia, a nomadic, predominantly Muslim group.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251241/catholic-cathedral-attacked-in-nigeria-after-arrests-over-blasphemy-killing
The arrest last week of Cardinal Joseph Zen, the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, continues to attract international condemnation, with the US bishops calling the situation “alarming.” Cardinal Zen was arrested May 11 under China’s national security law with at least four others for his role as a trustee of a pro-democracy fund. Zen, who was Archbishop of Hong Kong from 2002 to 2009, has long advocated for underground Catholics in mainland China.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251239/international-community-laments-cardinal-zens-precarious-position
Today, the Church celebrates Saint Andrew Bobola, a Polish-born martyr who served a Jesuit priest in Lithuania. There he worked extensively with the sick including during a plague outbreak, but he is best known as a successful missionary to Orthodox Christians. It was said that over 20 years of preaching along the roads, he converted whole villages to Catholicism.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-andrew-bobola-475
The Church also celebrates Saint Simon Stock, a twelfth and thirteenth century Carmelite monk whose vision of the Virgin Mary is the source of the Brown Scapular devotion.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-simon-stock-702