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Today's Readings
- Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading 1 Jer 17:5-8
  Responsorial Psalm Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
  Reading 2 1 Cor 15:12, 16-20
  Gospel Lk 6:17, 20-26
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News from the Vatican
- Pope asks for prayers for summit, calls clergy abuse an ‘urgent’ problem
  
  Speaking in his Sunday Angelus address, Pope Francis petitioned Catholics to pray for an upcoming anti-abuse summit at the Vatican, saying he wanted to call the gathering as a response to the “urgent”
- US bishops laud pope’s call to defrock McCarrick as ‘just,’ ‘determined’
  
  A range of U.S. Church leaders praised Pope Francis's decision to remove former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the clerical state.