Stories for week of March 25, 2018

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Saturday, Mar. 31

 Pope Francis: Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass
 Italy’s interior minister calls for heightened Easter security amid anti-terrorism arrests

Released Friday, Mar. 30

 Via Crucis at the Colosseum: full text of meditations; Pope prays with ‘shame, repentance, hope’
 Good Friday at St. Peter’s Basilica: papal preacher calls on youth to go against stream, encounter Christ
 10 Roman priests have lunch with Pope
 Russian defense minister, UN envoy discuss embattled Damascus suburb
 Parisians march to protest murder of 85-year-old Holocaust survivor
 North, South Korea agree to hold summit
 Vatican denies report of ‘imminent’ agreement with China
 Pope celebrates Mass of the Lord’s Supper at Roman prison, denounces death penalty
 Resignations and appointments (3/29)
 Pope, at Chrism Mass, urges priests to imitate Jesus’ closeness to people

Released Thursday, Mar. 29

 Canadian bishops: Pope will not apologize for ‘residential schools’
 Did Pope say there is no hell?
 Catholic legislator offers bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland
 Irish government proposal would allow abortion on demand: analysis
 Papal best wishes for Rome’s Jewish community at Passover
 French bishops praise heroism of slain gendarme Arnaud Beltrame
 Pope makes child cancer survivor’s wish come true with kiss, ride in popemobile
 Canadian religious leaders decry government’s intransigence on pro-abortion test for jobs program
 China and North Korea hail close friendship after Kim visit confirmed
 Yemen’s people struggle to find bare essentials 3 years on from first Saudi airstrikes
 Children fleeing unrest and hunger in Venezuela face human trafficking in Colombia
 Leading US bishops recall 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King’s assassination
 Resignations and appointments (3/28)

Released Wednesday, Mar. 28

 Irish leader: Church should include ‘all types of family’ at Dublin meeting
 30,000 Americans to enter Church at Easter Vigil
 Australian police began Pell investigation before any crime was reported
 Jailed Chinese bishop set free, but barred from celebrating Chrism Mass
 Easter in Jerusalem: No access for Gaza’s Christians
 Pope Francis visits Pope Benedict
 Pope devotes general audience to Paschal Triduum, warns against corrupt life
 Laity keep the faith alive in the most remote parish on earth
 Cardinal Müller: Is there a saving truth?
 US, EU expel more than 100 Russian diplomats over Skripal case
 A new president may not mean a totally fresh start for South Africa, Jesuit says
 Thousands more leave Syria’s Ghouta, rebels await Russian decision
 Macron condemns anti-Semitism following horrific murder of Holocaust survivor in Paris
 Kim Jong Un made a surprise China visit, sources say
 Vatican newspaper: Pope Francis continues Paul VI’s path of Curial reform
 Resignations and appointments (3/27)

Released Tuesday, Mar. 27

 Syrian refugees arriving in Rome via ‘humanitarian corridor’ arranged by St. Egidio community
 2 million join in pro-life march in Argentina
 Vatican liturgical office: feast of Mary, the Mother of the Church to be observed this year
 Indonesian high court rejects Christian governor’s appeal of blasphemy conviction
 US bishops’ spokesman decries low rate of admission for refugees
 Holy Cross College students call attention to theology professor’s views on ‘drag king’ Jesus
 Chinese authorities seize ‘underground’ bishop
 Church in Italy recalls missionary martyrs
 Muslim, Christian leaders pray for peace, interreligious harmony in Pakistan
 UN must intervene in Congo, says bishops’ conference official
 Somalia: Al Shabaab claims deadly blast outside hotel in Mogadishu
 Boko Haram strikes 5 in Niger
 US strikes Qaeda target in southern Libya, expanding shadow war there
 At funeral Mass, bishop honors French officer whose sacrifice saved hostage
 Remove stones of hatred, injustice, ethnic conflict, Myanmar cardinal says in Easter message
 US contributes to stalemate on abortion at UN, despite leakers on delegation
 Swedish diocese purchases church from Protestants as number of Catholics grows
 Vatican congregation publishes reference work on Eastern Catholic Churches
 Primate of All Ireland: Church ‘can never become complacent’ about safeguarding children
 Jesuit criticizes media coverage of Katy Perry, Immaculate Heart of Mary sisters
 Vatican foreign minister: Church in China should be ‘fully Catholic and genuinely Chinese’
 Resignations and appointments (3/26)
 Papal condolences following fire at Russian shopping center
 Glastonbury: archaeology is revealing new truths about the origins of British Christianity
 Wave of protests in Catalonia following arrest of Puigdemont in Germany
 Papal audiences (3/26)
 Pope Francis, other prelates laud witness of Arnaud Beltrame

Released Monday, Mar. 26

 Veteran Rome correspondent laments death of Vatican Radio
 Ukrainian monks disciplined; had broken discipline to follow local ‘seer’
 Papal condolences to terrorist victims in Carcassone, France
 Pope offers thanks to Vatican security staff
 Pope accepts resignation of Irish bishop who delayed reporting abuse
 Central African Republic: priest dies of injuries after assault on parish
 Report: Pope says he wishes to visit South Sudan
 French bishops decry new Islamist terrorist attack as ‘unacceptable and inadmissible’
 Saudi Arabia says it is revamping education to combat ‘extremist ideologies’
 In India, police leave Catholic hospital separated from power supply following attack
 ‘We need a visit from the Pope,’ Iraqi bishop says in interview
 ‘May Mary help us all to live Holy Week well,’ Pope says at Angelus address
 Meditations by young people for Pope’s Via Crucis released
 The joy of the Gospel disturbs the self-righteous, Pope preaches at Palm Sunday Mass
 Pope pays tribute to Italian province’s ‘faith, laboriousness, and solidarity’
 Pre-synod meeting’s final document highlights young people’s diverse attitudes toward Christ and the Church
 Resignations and appointments (3/24)
 Papal audiences (3/24)
 Papal preacher devotes final Lenten sermon to Christian purity
 Resignations and appointments (3/23)
 Papal audiences (3/23)

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