June 20, 2024

I Know You Are There, Lord

Colleen Arnold, MD June 20, 2024

In verse 8 of Psalm 139, we read, “If I ascend to the heavens, you are there; if I lie down in Sheol, there you are.” We cannot escape from God’s presence.

Saint Anthony, Teacher

Jack Wintz, OFM June 20, 2024

In canonizing Anthony in 1232, Pope Gregory IX spoke of him as the “Ark of the Testament” and the “Repository of Holy Scripture.”

A devotee is seen in Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Concepcion, Bolivia, one of many historic Jesuit missionary sites within the country declared a World Heritage Site in 2019. (OSV News photo/David Mercado, Reuters)

Deceased Spanish Jesuit accused of abusing ‘hundreds’ of Indigenous girls

OSV News June 20, 2024

A Spanish Jesuit has been discovered to have documented his abuse of hundreds of Indigenous girls while serving as a missionary in rural Bolivia.

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