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U-S bishops are praying for all affected by a shooting Wednesday at a rail yard in San Jose, California. A gunman killed nine people, and injured multiple others, before taking his own life. The head of the U-S bishops’ committee on domestic justice said something is fundamentally broken in U-S society and culture.
Pope Francis has appointed a new leader for the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship, and the Discipline of the Sacraments. English Archbishop Arthur Roche is currently secretary for the congregation. He will succeed Cardinal Robert Sarah, who led the congregation for six years, before the pope accepted his resignation in February, at the age of 75.
Florida State University has agreed to a settlement with a Catholic student, who sued the school last year. The student sued the university over his removal from the student senate, after comments he made in a private text messaging forum. In the forum, the student cautioned other students against financially supporting the A-C-L-U, and the official Black Lives Matter organization, because the groups’ policies violated Church teachings on abortion and gender issues.
A man with a gun allegedly robbed the bishop of Oakland of his episcopal ring, and some money, near the city’s cathedral. The attack took place on Saturday, the same day the cathedral was scheduled to hold a vigil against gun violence. Bishop Michael Barber was reportedly praying the rosary while taking a walk, when he was attacked.
Today is the feast day of Saint Augustine of Canterbury. The Italian Benedictine monk founded the famous See of Canterbury, under the direction of Saint Gregory the Great. He preached the Catholic faith to the country’s Anglo-Saxon pagans during the late sixth and early seventh centuries.