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Stories for week of September 24, 2017

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Sep. 29

 Canada also investigating Vatican diplomat removed from US amid child-porn charges
 Another priest abducted in southern Nigeria
 Pope’s remains popular in US, new poll shows
 Washington Post analyzes conflict between Church and Duterte in Philippines
 Cardinal Müller sounds off in candid interview
 Libyan prosecutor finds graves of 21 Coptic Christians murdered by Islamic State
 ‘Many good traditions’ enrich Church, Pope tells Council for New Evangelization
 Report: Copts face arrest after Facebook post leads Muslims to riot in Egyptian village
 ‘Fake news and journalism for peace’ to be theme of Pope’s annual communications message
 Questions abound regarding future of the JPII Institute in Washington
 Christians, Muslims in Nigeria issue joint appeal for peace
 Florida teacher plans Satanic holiday display; pastor vows to knock it down
 US bishops, Catholic organizations join with Pope in campaign to ‘share the journey’ of migrants and refugees
 Japanese bishop grateful for Vatican cardinal’s visit
 Kenyan bishops issue new statement on electoral crisis, fear conflict, economic collapse
 Leading Vatican official: Radio is crucial in countering ‘fake news’
 Pope Francis at 9/28 weekday Mass: ‘Remorse is sign of salvation’
 Vatican foreign minister speaks at UN on human trafficking (full text)
 Resignations and appointments (9/28)
 Papal audiences (9/28)

Released Thursday, Sep. 28

 NT Times notes judicial nominee’s membership in Catholic charismatic community
 Venezuela: desperate people rummage in trash as economic crisis continues
 Vatican mishandled case of priest-suspect in Washington, expert says
 Pope sends greetings to Council of European Bishops’ Conferences
 Religious leaders have special role in protecting human rights, Vatican prelate tells UN
 Philosopher who questioned Amoris Laetitia sues Spanish archdiocese that fired him
 Louisiana court uphold priest’s refusal to testify on confession
 Chinese archbishop appointed to diplomatic post in Greece
 Vatican Secretary of State on filial correction: ‘important to dialogue’
 STD infection rate in US reaches all-time high
 Amoris Laetitia is Thomist document, Pope claims
 Police suspect break-in attempt at Milan cathedral
 Farewell to the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family
 The Enduring Charism of St. Vincent de Paul
 Canadian bishops consecrate nation to Blessed Virgin Mary
 India: arson attack reported on Protestant church in Karnataka
 Nepali Christians freed 9 months after conviction for ‘witchcraft’ of praying for mentally ill woman
 US bishops welcome bipartisan climate bill
 Archdiocese of Mexico City Offers Free Medical Care to Earthquake Victims
 House Majority Leader Announces Plans for Vote on Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
 Ohio bill seeks to end abortions after Down syndrome diagnosis
 A Pakistani woman converts from Islam to Christianity: now she and her family risk their lives
 Chile: tear gas fired at protestors outside cathedral
 Kenya’s bishops urge dialogue over presidential election re-run
 Video: Pope’s 9/27 general audience
 Video: Vatican press conference on new campaign for migrants and refugees
 October papal calendar of public Masses
 Resignations and appointments (9/27)
 Quebec bishop elected president of Canadian bishops’ conference

Released Wednesday, Sep. 27

 Welcome migrants, Pope urges weekly audience, at launch of worldwide campaign
 5,000 demonstrate in India’s Jharkhand state after Christians arrested
 Cardinal Ouellet says ‘alarmist’ reading of Amoris Laetitia is wrong
 At Wednesday audience, Pope prays for hurricane victims in Caribbean
 Pope’s message to Vincentians on 400th annniversary
 Congo: bishops’ leader warns of campaign against Church, asks help for kidnapped priests
 Scottish bishop urges resistance and Rosary against bid to decriminalize abortion
 Christians returning to Nineveh Plains after ISIS defeat
 Scientists confirm age of sack believed to be from St. Francis of Assisi
 Irish referendum on abortion will occur just before papal visit
 1 million Polish Catholics expected to join in Rosary on October 7
 Vatican diplomat, at UN, denounces sex discrimination (full text)
 Hundreds dead, thousands displaced in Ethiopia ethnic clashes
 Palestinian shoots dead 3 Israelis at settlement near Jerusalem
 US-led airstrikes on ISIS killed over 80 civilians
 ‘We will shoot down US planes’, North Korea’s foreign minister declares
 Federal court: 1st Amendment does not protect photographers in same-sex wedding case
 EEOC sues physician for beginning workday with mandatory Bible study
 President of US bishops’ conference: Statement on Hurricane Maria
 Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors: achievements, goals, and lessons learned
 Pope Francis daily Mass (9/26): Familiarity with Jesus sets us free
 Bishop Braxton addresses how to heal US racial divide
 Pope discusses Ukraine, Syria, persecution of Christians with Russia’s Metropolitan Hilarion
 Cardinal Dolan: Church needs to be transparent, honest about its flaws
 Leading Russian Orthodox official meets with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
 Papal audiences (9/26)
 Catholic Charities calls on faithful to advocate for increase in refugees entering US
 What happened at the Vatican’s bio-extinction conference

Released Tuesday, Sep. 26

 Estonian composer, German theologians named for Ratzinger Prize
 Pope sends support for Italian National Day for the Abolition of Architectural Barriers
 American bishop joins signers of ‘filial correction’
 SSPX leader hopes ‘filial correction’ will highlight gravity of doctrinal issue
 Cardinal Müller: open debate could ease tensions over Amoris Laetitia
 ‘Recognize harm to poor and amend Graham-Cassidy bill, say US bishop chairmen’
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ gives lecture at Fordham (full text)
 Vatican foreign minister addresses UN General Assembly (full text)
 Myanmar cardinal expresses support for Aung San Suu Kyi, says Pope should avoid the term ‘Rohingya’
 Venezuela: regime accuses bishops of being ‘bandits,’ distant from the people
 Chaldean Catholic patriarch pleads for reconciliation between Baghdad, Kurdish separatists
 Asia Bibi nominated for EU Parliament’s Sakharov Prize
 South Sudan: leading prelate pleads for peace
 African bishops: ‘Only the poor can truly develop themselves’
 Pope Francis sends message to Invictus Games participants
 How perceptions of God help determine self-esteem, mental health
 UN peacekeepers: Congo leads world in sex abuse allegations
 US flies bombers off North Korean coast to send message on America’s ‘military options’
 ‘Merkel wins historic 4th term, but far-right populists surge’
 1st Korean exhibition at Vatican Museums
 Resignations and appointments (9/25)
 Papal audiences (9/25)

Released Monday, Sep. 25

 Identification of faith with Europe can curb evangelization, Cardinal Filoni says in Japan
 Pope meets members of foundations that support Swiss Guard
 Christians in Kurdistan differ on autonomy referendum, Chaldean patriarchate says
 Russian Orthodox prelate calls for restoration of Europe’s Christian culture
 UN should work for concrete commitments to change, Vatican ‘foreign minister’ urges
 FEC nominee faces questions about conservative Catholic views
 SNAP founder Barbara Blaine dies suddenly at 61
 Father Stanley Rother beatified in Oklahoma City
 Pope’s homily at Mass for the Vatican Gendarme Corps (full text)
 Pope Francis: Angelus address on Mt. 20:1-16; tribute to Blessed Stanley Rother (full text)
 62 clergy, lay scholars accuse Pope of propagating heresies
 Vatican’s former auditor says he was forced to quit after finding irregularities
 Pope Francis: Address to participants in the general chapter of the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance (full text)
 Papal audiences (9/23)
 Vatican tribunal holds 5th hearing in misappropriated-fund case
 Pope makes surprise visit to patients at rehabilitation clinic
 Peru’s president meets with Pontiff
 Vatican to set up joint committee with Muslim World League
 Papal audiences (9/22)
 Head of new pontifical foundation discusses work
 New curial document on Catholic education: “Educating to Fraternal Humanism”
 Bishop Athanasius Schneider on Prof. Seifert, Cardinal Caffarra, and Amoris Laetitia

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