On "EWTN News Nightly" tonight: Catholic Congressman Steve Scalise has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow plasma cells. The long-serving Republican from Louisiana, is the current Majority Leader of the House. Meanwhile, the White House continues to receive FEMA updates on Hurricane Idalia now bearing down on Florida. And more than a dozen states and a number of pro-life groups are asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on so-called "buffer zones" around abortion clinics. EWTN Legal Analyst and Religious Freedom Expert, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, joins to talk more about this case and the significance of it. A recent study in South Korea says the surgical N-95 masks used for protection against the coronavirus may expose users to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals. Cofounder of Evie Magazine, Brittany Martinez, joins to share her reaction to this study. Pope Francis is being criticized for remarks he made recently to young people in Russia. In a video message on Friday, the Holy Father told the young people they are "heirs of the Great Russia. The Great Russia of saints and kings." Finally this evening, a centuries-old tradition wrapped up today in Italy. In a tradition that is now 729 years old, on the evening of August 29th, "la Perdonanza Celestiniana," the Celestinian Forgiveness, came to a close in L'Aquila, a city in central Italy. EWTN Vatican Journalist Matteo Ciofi has more.

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