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Welcome back to your weekly international edition of Morning Briefing, where we try to highlight a little of what's going on around the world.
First, some news from NCR today and yesterday:
Chicago archdiocese offers new parental leave policy, extends to fathers
Archbishop Kurtz: 'Amoris Laetitia' a call to find new ways to walk with people
And from Global Sisters Report:
Illegal mining in Ghana undercuts church's plans for land, threatens lives
EU news round-up:
EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo missing with 66 on board
Politico surveys The 40 MEPs who actually matter
EU Commission wants to hit Netflix with movie tax
Citing election, EU puts off punishing Spain and Portugal over deficits
German Comic to Fight Ruling on Poem Insulting Turkish Leader
British EU referendum:
Where the British press stands on Brexit
Number of EU migrants working in UK rises to record level
Rents and property values would drop after Brexit, say landlords
Bloomberg warns Brexit would leave British-based employees 'worse off'
From Italy with love:
U.S. Returns a Stolen Christopher Columbus Letter, but Mystery Remains
Today's rich families in Florence, Italy, were rich 700 years ago
Amanda Knox vs Italy: European court accepts rights violation case
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.]