Welcome to the 16th edition of News of the Church.
It’s 22 June 2025 and it is the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost although in most places people are celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi. It’s wonderful to see the practices of Eucharistic processions returning. A couple years ago, I saw a movie called News of the World with Tom Hanks. He plays a former confederate officer, years after the Civil War. He travels from town to and town and reads aloud stories from different newspapers. He scratches out a living as a gazetteer. People were starved for news and often not literate so they paid a dime .10c a head to listen. That’s about $2.50 today. [HERE] The idea of a wandering gazetteer caught my imagination and here I am.
00:14 Init
01:12 Leo XIV issues decrees on martyrdoms, miracle
10:02 Horror in Nigeria
13:54 Widow, mother of 4 nuns, 1 priest, takes the veil
18:06 Happy Birthday Royal Observatory
27:04 Never Too Late
33:18 Comments and Exit
Previous Episode HERE
BOOK RECOMENDATION
Longitude by Dava Sobel. HERE
Fr. Reader on Daily Rome Shot 1390 – Protestants FOR authenticity of the Shroud of Turin: “I just read three articles written by prof Andrea Grillo. I wanted to verify that all the accusations against him…”
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