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Today's Readings
- Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading 1 Is 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8
  Responsorial Psalm Isaiah 38:10, 11, 12abcd, 16
  Gospel Mt 12:1-8
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News from the Vatican
- Pope adds teen to list of saints to be declared during synod on youth
  
  Pope Francis added an Italian teenager to the list of people he will formally recognize as saints Oct. 14 during the month-long meeting of the world Synod of Bishops on young people.
- First step of sainthood for woman who refused cancer treatment for unborn child
  
  A formal call for testimony has been issued, the first step of an investigation into the possible sainthood of Chiara Corbella Petrillo, a young Italian mother who died in 2012.