Catholic Nutshell News: Tuesday 8/13/24

Topics include Nicaragua on warpath, Jimmy Lai’s appeal dismissed, Last Catholic hospital system in Alabama gone, & Vatican's open line to Iran

“I’ll pray for thee from my pistachio tree”

Today's sources are the National Catholic Register, CNA, Aleteia, The Pillar, OSV, Big Pulpit, Monastery of Christ in the Desert, and Catholic Mom. (Catholic Nutshell is a subscription service for faithful, hopeful, & curious Catholics willing to exercise the Catholic News Muscle)