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Stories for week of October 01, 2017

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Oct. 6

 Philosopher Josef Seifert on “The Persecution of Orthodoxy”
 Cardinal Pell’s court date set for next March
 Vatican to continue ties with Taiwan despite Beijing’s protect
 Protection of children must be top online priority, Pope tells Vatican conference
 Full text of Pope’s address to conference on protection of children online
 Vatican congress issues declaration for protecting children online
 Islamic terrorists menace Christians in Mali
 US fertility rates hit new low
 Lithuanian leader meets with Pontiff
 Episcopal appointments
 Pope’s message to conference on ocean ecology
 Pope, in weekday Mass homily, emphasizes rediscovery of roots
 Pope Francis critiques premises of transgender movement
 Pope calls on Chaldean Catholic bishops to be builders of unity in Iraq (full text)
 Papal audiences (10/5)

Released Thursday, Oct. 5

 Pope addresses United Bible Societies delegation (scroll down for English translation)
 ‘The need for fuller pastoral care’
 At least 100 killed in clashes between rebels and armed forces in South Sudan
 UN finds ‘unimaginable’ suffering on visit to Myanmar’s Rakhine
 ‘We cannot love what do not know’: an interview with Father Thomas Joseph White, OP
 King of Spain forcefully denounces Catalan ‘disloyalty’
 Roe v. Wade’s ‘terrible reach’ strikes down Indiana abortion restrictions
 Kenyan bishop backs tetanus vaccine
 Los Angeles archdiocese, Catholic Charities hold DACA renewal workshops
 Cardinal Wuerl, other speakers: efforts to protect life at all stages have never been more important
 Baroness Joanna Shields: ‘The Reality of Young Life Lived Behind Screens’
 ‘May the Lord protect Egypt ... from terrorism’: Pope greets Egyptian government official
 House of Representatives considers resolution against assisted suicide
 Pope Francis: 10/4 general audience (full text)
 Resignations and appointments (10/4)
 Catholic home schooling continues to bear good fruit

Released Wednesday, Oct. 4

 Colombian priest killed in hold-up attempt
 Coadjutor archbishop closes controversial seminary in Guam
 Cardinal Burke discusses appointment to Apostolic Signatura
 Dutch Cardinal Eijk says Christians have great influence as ‘creative minority’
 Irish human-rights commission calls for full legalization of abortion
 Some bishops protest move to make St. John XXIII patron of Italian military
 Buttiglione criticizes ‘filial correction’
 Christians called to be ‘missionaries of hope,’ Pope tells Wednesday audience
 Pre-Synod meeting will allow input from young people
 Cardinal Bo demands end to violence against Rohingya
 Bangladesh seeks to repatriate Rohingya Muslim refugees to Myanmar
 World Food Program cuts food rations for refugees In Kenya amidst funding shortfalls
 Spanish prime minister defends police actions in Catalonia
 British bishop on Brexit: UK is leaving the EU but not leaving Europe
 Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, move toward reconciliation in Gaza
 Christian, Hindu minors in Pakistan arrested for allegedly burning Quran pages
 Dispute over Kurdish independence should not be ‘internationalized,’ Iraqi prelates warn
 1st Mass at Philippine cathedral since May attack
 Pontifical abuse commission member speaks on ‘child dignity in the digital world’
 Vatican envoy speaks on international intellectual-property issues
 Vatican’s UN envoy speaks on social development
 Vatican Secretary of State: ‘The Holy See and Its Commitment to Combating Sex Abuse Online’ (full text of address)
 Pope Francis: homily at 10/3 weekday Mass
 On England’s south coast, an Oratory flourishes
 US bishops’ conference issues Respect Life Month statement: ‘Be Not Afraid’
 House passes Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
 Resignations and appointments (10/3)

Released Tuesday, Oct. 3

 Newly appointed Austrian bishop favors women as deacons, maybe priests
 Papal greeting to 24th World Congress of the Apostleship of the Sea
 Catholic groups pull investments from fossil-fuel industries
 Venezuelan cardinal says regime pursues ‘totalitarian and militaristic’ system
 Bishops in Philippines offer protection for witnesses who testify on extra-judicial killings
 Turkish leader offers to release jailed Evangelical pastor if US surrenders his political rival
 Archbishop of Canterbury: ‘I can’t give a straight answer’ on morality of homosexual acts
 Pope Francis’ prayer intention for October: for workers and unemployed
 Cardinal Bertone personally arranged renovations, witnesses says at Vatican corruption trial
 Belgian religious called to Rome to explain euthanasia policy in hospitals
 Vatican envoy backs measure to protect fishing crews
 Philippines: Muslim rebel group to protect Christians involved in Marawi’s reconstruction
 India: Kerala Christians welcome home kidnapped priest Father Tom Uzhunnalil
 Mary, Star of Evangelization to be theme of Fatima centenary conclusion
 Tens of thousands attend traditional supplication at Marian shrine of Pompei
 Barcelona cardinal deplores violence, calls for peaceful outcome following independence vote
 Vote expected soon on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
 Pre-seminary discernment programs spread
 Bishops assist with ceasefire between Colombian government, ELN
 Prelate: Uganda needs to apologize for group’s attacks in neighboring nations
 Cardinal DiNardo’s statement on the Las Vegas shooting
 New diocese established in Botswana
 Papal audiences (10/2)
 Papal address on the ‘Day of the Gift’ (full text)
 Pope Francis: pastoral visit to Cesena and Bologna (links to talks)

Released Monday, Oct. 2

 New Ontario law allows removing children from foster parents who oppose gender switch
 Irish bishop apologizes for statement opposing use of Gardasil vaccine
 Cameroon: bishops call for decentralization as pressure mounts for secession of Anglophone region
 Bishops as mediators in ceasefire between Colombian government and rebels
 Pope’s new book carries preface by Italian gender-theory advocate
 Influx of Syrian refugees causes ‘unbearable’ crisis in Lebanon, says Maronite Patriarch
 Puerto Rico: archbishop reflects on ‘so much suffering’ after hurricanes
 Visiting Bologna, Pope reflects on Gospel, role of university
 Vicar general of Opus Dei sees ‘filial correction’ as a scandal
 Papal condolences after mass shooting in Las Vegas
 Vatican ruling imminent on accused Guam archbishop
 Cardinal Burke re-appointed to Apostolic Signatura
 Papal audience with Little Sisters of Jesus
 Archbishop Gomez: Homily at Washington, DC Red Mass (full text)
 The Latin Mass, thriving in southeastern Nigeria
 60 women from interfaith marriages held captive
 India: Father Tom Uzhunnalil welcomed home with flowers and tears
 Pennsylvania nuns vow to appeal after their religious-freedom lawsuit to stop gas pipeline is dismissed
 Romanian Orthodox patriarch meets with Vatican cardinal
 Cardinal Bagnasco addresses European bishops on Christ and secularism (full text)
 New Franciscan fraternity formed in Emmaus
 Boko Haram leaves 3 million kids out of school in N. Nigeria
 Bishops call for prayer, dialogue in Catalonia
 U.S. warns Americans against visiting Cuba, cuts embassy staff
 USCCB chairmen urge Congress to support the Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act of 2017
 Zambia: 17 members of Society of St. Vincent de Paul perish in a road accident
 Abducted priest released in Nigeria
 Pope, at 9/29 weekday Mass, celebrates archangels who accompany us on our journey
 Priest beatified in Slovakia
 Pope Francis: Address to members of the National Association of Italian Municipalities (full text)
 Resignations and appointments (9/30)
 Papal audiences (9/30)

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