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Stories for September 2010

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Thursday, Sep. 30

 Pope's prayer intentions for October 2010
 Rival factions threaten violence within Lebanon, Maronite bishops warn
 Honors for midwife who saves babies of Auschwitz prisoners
 Spanish archbishop to lead probe of Regnum Christi
 Italian prosecutors quiz Vatican bank chief
 Filipino president could face Church sanctions for family-planning efforts
 Pope leaves summer residence, returns to Vatican
 Obama discusses conversion to Christianity, defends position on abortion
 Catholics, Oriental Orthodox discuss proselytism by evangelicals
 Nigerian prelate laments kidnapping of children
 US cardinal urges Catholics to take ‘St. Francis Pledge’ on climate change
 Cardinal, other religious leaders meet with Clinton on Mideast peace
 Another bishop ordained in China

Released Wednesday, Sep. 29

 Jesuit faculty member rallies support for Georgetown gay-rights group
 US report shows active homosexuals account for most new HIV infections
 Irish bishops head to Rome to prepare for apostolic visitation
 Personal secretary to Benedict XVI reflects on 'Pope of Surprises'
 New superior for Oblates is American priest
 Truth in the digital age: Pope's theme for World Day of Social Communications
 Papal prayers for Nigeria, Haiti
 Pope continues audience talks on influential Christian women
 Cathedral suspends artist who opposes Church teaching on same-sex marriage
 Appeals court decision resumes federal funding of embryonic stem cell research
 California bishops call for end of use of death penalty
 Chaldean Catholic refugees not permitted to work in Jordan
 3 traditional Anglican bishops have 2nd thoughts about union with Rome
 Anglican tribunal rules against bishop who worships at Catholic parish

Released Tuesday, Sep. 28

 Vatican plans conference on post-colonial African identity
 Lawyer challenges Vatican sovereignty
 Filipino Catholics organize to oppose birth-control
 European court rules against German diocese on dismissal of parish musician
 Photos: Pope visits Cardinal Newman's rooms, Birmingham Oratory
 Hadley Arkes fears 'soft nihilism' in Obama approach to human rights
 Vatican bank lags on transparency, European official says
 10 states file friend-of-the-court brief in defense of marriage
 Father Thomas Dubay, retreat master and author, dies
 Seminarians deal with scandal’s fallout
 Survey documents American ignorance of religious knowledge
 Pro-abortion Chilean to lead major UN agency on women
 Catholic-Orthodox talks on papacy: officials optimistic, while Moscow denies breakthrough

Released Monday, Sep. 27

 Pope thanks officials at Castel Gandolfo; prepares return to Rome
 Pope's message accentuates role of pilgrimages
 Number of cardinal-electors dips to 103
 Catholicism is Korea's most trusted faith
 Emphasize forgiveness, restore Confession, Pope urges Brazilian prelates
 True love leads to true happiness, Pope tells Sunday audience
 Some English Catholic voices undermine Pope's success, columnist charges
 Ireland: call to boycott Mass has little impact
 Brazilian artist depicts assassination of Pope
 Coptic leader apologizes for bishop's statement questioning the Qu'ran
 The Pill harms the status of women, Australian cardinal argues
 Orissa: violence against Christians becoming commonplace
 Ukraine: Orthodox protest plans for Catholic cathedral
 Vatican bank head meets with Pope; encounter seen as show of support
 Vatican astronomer downplays 2013 solar storm fears
 Pray, advocate for peace in Sudan, urges Catholic Relief Services
 President Obama always keeps Our Lady's picture in wallet, says First Lady
 New music settings for Mass coming to US parishes
 FBI improperly investigated Catholic Worker
 Malaysian court rules officials unlawfully demolished Christian church

Released Friday, Sep. 24

 Force liberal Catholics to show Vatican II texts to justify stands, columnist suggests
 In Angola, Church struggles to combat witchcraft
 Colombia's bishops see new hopes for peace talks with FARC
 Israel blocks Palestinian access to Temple Mount
 Boston archdiocese unveils online social network
 Australia's first saint sought action against abusive priest
 Vatican banker worked to reform past policies
 Balance work, rest, in family life, Pope urges
 Vatican confirms program for Pope's November trip to Spain
 Pope meets with school children at Castel Gandolfo
 Creighton challenged to clarify role of dissident theologians after warning from bishops
 Millennium Development Goals largely ignore family
 Italian author examines motives of Pope's critics
 Iowa bishops call for constitutional convention to defend marriage
 Notre Dame names opponent of Obama honor as head of pro-life initiatives
 Missouri: women must be informed before abortion that life begins at conception
 Court rules Florida must allow gay adoptions
 Italian teenage girl to be beatified
 Brazilian bishops condemn violence against Guarani
 Bolivian bishops denounce lynchings

Released Thursday, Sep. 23

 State budget cuts may close Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in New Jersey
 Archbishop Wuerl will head efforts in US to welcome Anglicans into Catholic Church
 Vatican says bank transfers easily explained
 Australia to honor first canonized native saint with commemorative postage stamp
 Medjugorje 'seers' hosted by Vienna cathedral
 Malaysian officials block rebuilding of church
 President Obama meets with Catholic Charities leadership
 Cardinal to emphasize Catholic identity in address to Catholic Charities
 Holy See: Make the Middle East a nuclear-weapon-free zone
 Increasing violence against Christians in Indonesia
 Cardinal Turkson: Don’t eliminate the poor through population control
 US bishops’ committee warns against Creighton theologians’ book on sexuality

Released Wednesday, Sep. 22

 Personal rivalries thwart efforts to reconstruct Somali government, bishop says
 Gay-rights lobbying group not 'legitimately Catholic,' archbishop warns
 US Senate blocks move to allow overt homosexuals in military
 Vatican bank head attributes money-laundering complaint to 'procedural error'
 Papal visit to Ireland possible for 2012?
 Book attacking Pope's handling of abuse issue is riddled with errors, bishop says
 Pope pleads for 'intense prayer' for latest ecumenical talks
 At Westminster Abbey, the Pope reflected on Petrine ministry
 Britain retains a 'Christian soul,' Pope tells audience
 Vatican-Israel talks continue, no agreement in sight
 US bishops: ‘Strengthen and improve’ child, earned income tax credits
 ‘Evident fear’ among Pakistani Christians
 US bishops ask Catholics to lobby Senate to ratify nuclear weapons reduction treaty
 1 million living in tents in Haiti
 Catholic-Orthodox commission resumes dialogue on papal primacy

Released Tuesday, Sep. 21

 Pope to visit Palermo in early October
 New York archdiocese weighs school closings
 Filipino archbishop names names in gambling probe
 Church leaders in Minnesota rally opposition to same-sex marriage
 Vatican, Beijing both approve new Chinese bishop
 Vatican bank is target of money-laundering probe
 Over 1,000 religious take part in Alzheimer’s study
 Few concerned about fish feminized by birth control
 Withdraw US troops from Afghanistan, says California bishop
 Protestant pastor beaten in Pakistan
 Dachau martyr beatified
 US bishops urge HHS: No contraception, sterilization mandates in health care
 2 Belgian bishops question celibacy discipline

Released Monday, Sep. 20

 Papal visit: roundup/reactions
 Canadian archbishop bans gambling as fundraising tool
 Israel allows first relief vehicles into Gaza
 Episcopal conference must not obscure individual bishop's authority: Bishop Vasa
 Dissidents losing struggle at closed Boston parishes
 No 'credible threat' against Pope; 6 men released
 Pope thanks government, police, organizers for successful trip
 Papal challenge for British bishops: bring Gospel to secularized culture
 Eucharist celebrated in Armenian church for first time in 95 years
 Beatification of Cardinal Newman highlights papal visit to Britain
 Pontiff sees John Paul II as model for Christians in old age, illness
 Pope meets quietly with abuse victims in London
 US Anglican-Catholic dialogue meets, discusses morality
 ‘The year of the pro-life woman’
 Minnesota archdiocese warns that ‘synod’ is not legitimate
 Priest: Pakistan in desperate need of aid
 Irish Catholic editor analyzes Northern Ireland’s fragile peace
 Orissa archbishop calls for aid for child victims of persecution
 Belgium: abuse scandal leads to financial concerns

Released Sunday, Sep. 19

 Beatification of Cardinal Newman: Pope's homily

Released Saturday, Sep. 18

 At ecumenical service, Pope recalls history of united Church
 Pope voices sorrow for 'unspeakable crimes' of abuse
 Vatican, British government join in pledge to fight poverty, climate change
 Pope's address at Westminster rattled Britain's Protestant foundation: columnist

Released Friday, Sep. 17

 Pope warns Britain's leaders: don't marginalize faith
 American priest backs Italian journalist's charge: priests negligent in teaching Humanae Vitae
 Cardinal Newman as a liberal icon? The argument continues
 Meeting Archbishop of Canterbury, Pope offers Newman as model
 Vatican astronomer sees possibility-- in theory-- of intelligent life elsewhere
 Phoenix bishop announces priest's excommunication for 'ordination' of woman
 Leading papal protesters are zealots of secularism
 London police arrest 6 men for plot against Pope [updated]
 Columnist notes media double standard in coverage of Islam, abuse scandal
 Another Newman miracle?
 Texas bishop: No Yom Kippur service at parish; rabbi has Planned Parenthood ties
 Church in Angola concerned about witchcraft
 Senate debates embryonic stem cell research; Americans ambivalent
 Vatican spokesman: Belgian bishop’s laicization would be ‘more symbolic than practical’

Released Thursday, Sep. 16

 Skewed report suggests-- inaccurately-- that most abusive British priests remain active
 Irish archbishop says cover-up aggravated sex-abuse scandal
 China issues first-ever prison terms for dealers in human organs
 Single motherhood seen key factor in rise of US poverty
 Archbishop agrees to identify bribe recipients in Philippines betting scandal
 Evangelization must counter 'dictatorship of relativism,' Pope tells Scots
 Warmly welcomed in Scotland, Pope underlines Britain's Christian heritage
 Bishops' response to abuse was inadequate, Pope concedes
 Iraqi nun, a convert, helps lead New England’s largest Catholic chaplaincy
 Qu’ran honored at California cathedral
 Dutch bishop accused of abuse, denies allegations
 European bishops take part in pilgrimage for environmental protection
 Pakistani bishops demand end to anti-Christian discrimination in flood relief

Released Wednesday, Sep. 15

 French legislation bans burka
 Nashville Dominicans buck the downward trend in women's religious communities
 New York parents sue Catholic school for requiring vaccinations
 Filipino prelate charges other bishops take bribes from illegal gambling ventures
 Pope pleads for peace in India, Pakistan
 Pope speaks on groundbreaking influence of St. Clare of Assisi
 Vatican newspaper features Tony Blair's homage to Cardinal Newman
 Belgian bishop wants more Vatican action against abusive prelate
 Vatican gaffe: cardinal likens UK to 'Third World' country
 British public figures protest papal visit
 Irish bishop asks diocesan priests to help pay abuse settlements
 English Catholic columnists predict long-term impact of papal visit
 Amid 9 abortion clinics, crisis pregnancy center fights for unborn
 UK papal visit background: beatification of Cardinal Newman
 UK papal visit background: Westminster cathedral, Hyde Park [updated]
 Successor named to Canadian bishop who disappeared for months
 Pakistan denies discriminating against Christian flood victims
 Kashmir: Catholic school bombed in anti-Christian rampage

Released Tuesday, Sep. 14

 Massachusetts abortionist sentenced to 6 years for manslaughter
 Ohio museum will show statues from closed parishes
 Breakaway 'Catholic' sect faces lawsuit from donor
 Some Belgian Catholics renounce baptism
 Vatican postage to commemorate Pope's visit to Britain
 Boston archdiocese buys parish-bulletin producer
 Hindus still force conversions in Orissa, archbishop charges
 Irish newspaper sees anti-Catholic 'hate speech' sweeping Great Britain
 Belgian abuse reports a 'new cause of pain' for Pope
 UK papal visit background: St. Mary’s University College, Lambeth Palace, Westminster Abbey
 Abuse victim returns to Church after 82 years
 Caritas renews appeal for Pakistan, says 21 million affected
 Irish bishop rips Hans Küng on ‘spirit of Vatican II’
 60,000 at beatification of 20th-century Capuchin friar
 Russian Orthodox official blasts liberal developments in Anglicanism
 Christian church bombed in Pakistan

Released Monday, Sep. 13

 Bishops lead abortion-clinic vigils in Michigan, Florida
 Senator-elect continues tradition of Australia's 'most Catholic party'
 Milingo lodges claim on property in Lusaka archdiocese
 Russian Orthodox in Ireland seek equal status with Catholics
 India government official visiting Orissa, but not Christian villlages
 Egyptian police raid monastery as real-estate quarrel turns violent
 Apostolic Library set to reopen after renovation
 Belief in God provides moral orientation for society, Pope tells new German envoy
 Prelates' legacies tainted by scandals
 Violent protests against Qu'ran desecration leave 14 dead in India's Kashmir
 Many tickets still available for Pope's visit to Great Britain
 God always goes out to meet a repentant sinner, Pope tells Sunday audience
 Focus on evangelization, Pope urges new bishops
 UK papal visit background: St. Ninian’s Day
 UK papal visit background: Palace of Holyroodhouse
 US man creates official tartan for papal visit
 Hispanics now form majority of young US Catholics
 Vatican spokesman dismisses protests, lauds Cardinal Newman as exemplar of British Christianity
 Pakistani bishop grateful Qu’ran wasn’t burned; Muslims protest, stone church
 475 abuse allegations in Belgium; bishop to go into hiding

Released Friday, Sep. 10

 No football songs at funerals, Australian archbishop rules
 Cardinal Pell: same-sex adoption plan is 'bad social engineering'
 Vatican joins European initiative: free museum admission on September 26
 Federal judge rules against US military ban on homosexuals
 Historian urges Pope away from confrontation in England
 Evangelization needed to combat sects in Brazil, Pope tells bishops
 Pope meets Hungarian president
 New York archbishop: prayer and prudence on 9/11 anniversary
 Belgian abuse commission reports; court says raid on bishops was illegal
 Sen. Santorum offers Houston audience a rebuttal to JFK speech
 Papal greetings to Roman rabbi for Rosh Hashanah
 Streaming online coverage of papal appearances in UK
 Father McCloskey on Cardinal Newman beatification and the prospects for ecumenism
 50th anniversary of JFK’s famed Houston speech on Catholicism
 Bishop urges priests to pray outside abortion clinic
 First Amendment does not protect mosque construction, Qu’ran burning, argues editor
 President Obama commemorates ‘blessed day’ at end of Ramadan
 Amid persecution in Pakistan, Dominican vocations flourish
 Chinese authorities launch crackdown as pro-life activist freed from prison
 US bishops’ committees denounce anti-Muslim prejudice

Released Thursday, Sep. 9

 Cardinal McCarrick: Americans free to accept Gospel or Qu'ran
 Chicago pastor rips Cardinal George for conferring new titles on priests
 Hindu leader in anti-Christian violence sentenced for murder
 India: university orders reinstatement of professor fired for offending Muslims
 Gay-rights group barred from recruiting on Catholic campus in Texas
 Pope meets with premier of Cape Verde
 Republican leader: social issues are a distraction
 'Repressed memory' is a myth: Australian researcher
 US bishops find young, vibrant Church in Ghana
 Church in India marks ‘girl-child day’ to counter female infanticide
 Catholic shot in front of church in Pakistan
 Missionary questions motives of UN report on Congo rapes
 Sri Lanka: priests, nuns protest proposed constitutional change
 Vietnam: thousands of Catholics defy government, gather to pray in homes
 Shun relativism, defend life and marriage, Pope urges European legislators

Released Wednesday, Sep. 8

 Qu'ran-burning is 'outrageous' gesture, Vatican says
 Poverty programs should stress jobs, not 'dole-outs,' Filipino nuns argue
 Preparing for visit, Pope sends message to United Kingdom
 Pope, at audience, speaks on feminine insights of St. Hildegard of Bingen
 Mozart's music testifies to his faith, Pope says
 Vocations are plentiful for some dioceses, religious communities
 Sri Lankan archbishop draws famous speakers for convention on liturgy
 'Telemed' abortions being done illegally in Iowa?
 British TV documentary on Pope will be a 'hachet job,' columnist reports
 Austrian abortion clinic employees caught on tape assaulting pro-lifers
 Author's absurd claim: canon law protects priests from abuse trials
 Belgian cardinal admits he should have demanded resignation of abuser-bishop
 Panel of experts recruited to find ways to conserve Sistine Chapel frescoes
 Bishop defends social justice against critics
 1,500 attend consecration of new parish in China
 Judge rejects Obama administration’s request to lift stem-cell funding ban
 Sweden recognizes 1st Catholic university since 1400s
 Hong Kong cardinal criticizes Vatican congregation, warns of Communist persecution
 US government, military leaders warn against Qur’an burning
 Cardinal McCarrick, US bishops’ official denounce bigotry against Islam

Released Tuesday, Sep. 7

 Muslims could become Europe's majority, Italian priest warns
 Pope will use Latin in liturgies during visit to Great Britain
 British government official expects papal meeting with abuse victims
 Vatican offers statistical profile of Church in Great Britain
 Italian journalist predicts consistory, new cardinals, in November
 Vatican Radio broadcasts concert from papal summer residence
 Priest who lost 6 siblings to educate the poorest in Nigeria
 Wisconsin men’s group spreading nationwide, emphasizes restoration of the sacred
 New Zealand bishop opposes Easter shopping
 Terrorists taking advantage of Pakistani flooding, says priest
 Electro-pop youth anthem to be performed during papal visit
 Cardinal to Asian laity: Don’t compromise with secularism
 Russia’s Catholic bishops ‘interested in strong Orthodoxy’

Released Monday, Sep. 6

 India: Catholic college fires professor who was victim of Muslim extremists
 Pope likely to meet British abuse victims, archbishop says
 Young people, like tree, need strong roots, Pope tells audience
 New Vatican envoy named to Iraq
 Pope pays tribute to Leo XIII, pioneer of Catholic social teaching
 Tony Blair admits: no personal contribution for papal visit
 Vatican taking an interest in case of Iranian woman sentenced to stoning
 Poll finds British oppose public funding for papal visit
 Planning documents for papal trip recovered; police say no security breach
 Chinese diocese’s web site features pictures of Pope, St. Peter’s Basilica
 Catholic Charities aiding oil spill victims unassisted by BP
 CNN tribute to 1st black US priest
 'Strict surveillance' at funeral of 'underground' Chinese bishop
 Scottish cardinal rips BBC
 US issues Mother Teresa stamp; postmaster general ‘so very proud’
 Pakistan: some Christians denied aid unless they convert to Islam

Released Friday, Sep. 3

 Missouri diocese to drop CCHD funding for community organizers
 Profile of Vatican official who resigned amid criticisms
 Melkites bridge East and West, Vatican cardinal says
 Archbishop begs for calm as rioting ebbs in Mozambique
 Detroit archbishop to bless memorial to aborted children
 English archbishop unshaken by criticism in advance of papal visit
 Boston archdiocese says newly purchased hospital would abide by Catholic policies
 Australian writer sees canonization as an insult to Bl. Mary MacKillop
 Tourist traffic damaging Sistine Chapel, director reports
 Look beyond conventional secularism, Pope urges in World Youth Day message
 Wisconsin diocese investigates alleged Marian apparition
 Hackers steal $600,000 from diocese’s bank account
 Coptic patriarch: Desire to divorce leads Catholics to convert to Islam
 Irish bishop defends late priest linked to terrorist bombing
 Notre Dame fires administrator who opposed honor for Obama
 Pakistan: 4 more Christian villages deliberately flooded

Released Thursday, Sep. 2

 Profile of scientists behind lawsuit on embryonic stem-cell research
 Irish priest, convicted on abuse charges, sentenced to 4-year term
 Survey shows overwhelming opposition to legal abortion in El Salvador
 Cardinal Pell issues warning on same-sex adoption measure
 Dublin's Archbishop Martin has not discussed resignations with Pope
 Cardinal George: new liturgical translations envision more music
 Prayer: the key to healthy family life
 Seoul conference aims to energize Catholic laity
 Pope, Israeli president discuss peace prospects
 Karnataka rapped for ‘exonerating’ police officials in church attacks
 Abbey’s youngest monk becomes abbot, university chancellor
 Woman weeps over her abortion at Austin abortion funding hearing
 Pro-Obama Catholic group apparently folds
 Retired Anglican primate defends ‘heroic’ Irish Catholic priests
 North Korean dictator visits Catholic church in China
 Critic of Christianity vies to become Japanese prime minister
 Orthodox Patriarch calls for ‘titanic and righteous battle’ to protect the environment

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