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Today's Readings
- Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading 1 Prv 9:1-6
  Responsorial Psalm Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
  Reading 2 Eph 5:15-20
  Gospel Jn 6:51-58
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- Vatican voices shame after Pennsylvania report, says pope is on victims’ side
  
  Following the publication of a blistering report detailing decades of clerical sexual abuse and cover-up in Pennsylvania, the Vatican has voiced shame and has sent a message to victims, saying Pope...
- Pope names Venezuelan prelate to key position in secretariat of state
  
  After months of leaving the “sostituto,” or deputy, post at the Vatican Secretariat of State vacant, Pope Francis Wednesday tapped Venezuelan Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra for the position – a...