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Welcome back to your weekly international edition of the daily briefing, where we highlight a little of what's going on around the world.
First, from NCR yesterday:
Cardinal Dolan contemplates selling NY chancery in biting letter to priests
San Diego bishop warns against nationalism, market rule, overconfidence in technology
And from Global Sisters Report:
Special report: Awareness fosters hope for often-invisible sex-trafficking victims in the Midwest
'Accompaniment' spiritually underpins sisters' missions in Haiti
How the world saw Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson's Wednesday:
From the UK's Guardian: Trump's trainwreck press conference ushers in a shambolic presidency
'No access': Rex Tillerson sets collision course with Beijing in South China Sea
From the Financial Times: US spy agencies in crisis over Trump claims
From the BBC: Ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele in hiding after Trump memo
Brexit frustrations:
Oxford academics warning of Brexit 'disaster'
Brexit lays bare the brutal reality for the UK’s immigrants
The Brexit resistance: ‘It’s getting bigger all the time’
Parts far and wide:
The US hits North Korea with a new wave of sanctions as Un flexes his nuclear capabilities
Ban Ki-moon Returns to South Korea in Bid to Lead It
3 Key Foreign Ministers Join Talks Aimed to Reunify Cyprus
From Italy with love:
For Italy's Art Police, an Ongoing Fight Against Pillage of Priceless Works
Italy court blocks referendum to scrap Renzi's labor reform
Ideas for next week? Drop me a line:
[Joshua J. McElwee is NCR Vatican correspondent. His email address is jmcelwee@ncronline.org. Follow him on Twitter: @joshjmac.]
