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U.S. Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory is pictured at the observatory in Rome in this Dec. 12, 2007, file photo. Brother Consolmagno, along with astronomers and sky gazers across the world, will be keeping watch at sunset Dec. 21, 2020, in any time zone for a rare astronomical phenomenon as two of the brightest naked-eye planets, Saturn and Jupiter, create an event known as Planetary Conjunction.
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U.S. Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory is pictured at the observatory in Rome in this Dec. 12, 2007, file photo. Brother Consolmagno, along with astronomers and sky gazers across the world, will be keeping watch at sunset Dec. 21, 2020, in any time zone for a rare astronomical phenomenon as two of the brightest naked-eye planets, Saturn and Jupiter, create an event known as Planetary Conjunction.
Mass offered for healing of Native Americans hurt by ‘historical trauma’
A painting of St. Juan Diego is seen on an interior side wall of the Mission in the Sun in Tucson, Ariz., in this 2016 photo. In Washington Dec. 9, 2020, the feast of St. Juan Diego, Father Maurice Henry Sands, executive director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, celebrated a Mass at St. John Paul II National Shrine for healing of Native American communities. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)
By Dennis Sadowski • Catholic News Service • Posted December 11, 2020
(CNS) The Catholic Church can offer a message of healing to Native peoples through a new and inculturated evangelization that shares the hope expressed by Jesus in the Gospel, the executive director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions said at a Mass celebrating the feast of St. Juan Diego.
A painting of St. Juan Diego is seen on an interior side wall of the Mission in the Sun in Tucson, Ariz., in this 2016 photo. In Washington Dec. 9, 2020, the feast of St. Juan Diego, Father Maurice Henry Sands, executive director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, celebrated a Mass at St. John Paul II National Shrine for healing of Native American communities. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) Dec. 10, 2020 Catholic News Service CLEVELAND The Catholic Church can offer a message of healing to Native peoples through a new and inculturated evangelization that shares the hope expressed by Jesus in the Gospel, the executive director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions said at a Mass celebrating the feast of St. Juan Diego.