Stories for June 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Thursday, Jun. 4

 Philippine religious superiors voice concern about anti-terror bill
 Scotland’s bishops finalize plans to reopen churches
 Catholic schools in Spain call for respect for educational freedom
 Vatican’s pediatric dispensary reopens as lockdown eases
 Detroit archdiocese to shift to ‘family of parishes’
 Pope’s education foundation holds ‘celebration of sense’ on World Environment Day
 ‘Deplorable’: EU bishops join Ukrainian hierarchy in decrying surrogacy
 In Rome, Cardinal Farrell to lead prayer for ‘peaceful coexistence in the United States’
 Parish offers sanctuary amid Minneapolis riots
 Catholic responses to the killing of George Floyd
 Ugandans celebrate low-key Martyrs’ Day
 African bishops plead for aid for the poor, cancellation of debts
 Zambia receives papal donation of ventilators
 US bishops receive call of encouragement, assurances of prayer from Pope Francis
 For Christians in Pakistan, pandemic lockdown spells hunger, hardship

Released Wednesday, Jun. 3

 Vatican did not profit from Knight of Malta takeover: Cardinal Parolin
 Churches in 6 states damaged by violent protests
 After an attack on their Chicago Catholic bookstore, nuns pray for the looters
 Church suffering violence in Ethiopia, Eritrea
 USCCB issues action alert on further CO19 relief actions
 Pope, in general audience, reflects on Abraham’s prayer
 In symbolic vote, assembly rejects Parliament’s legalization of abortion in Northern Ireland
 Philippine bishops warn against online predators
 Minnesota archbishop joins area police chief, faith leaders in march against racism
 Vatican sports charity initiative to benefit hard-hit northern Italian hospitals
 President Trump calls for support for international religious freedom in new executive order
 Bishops express sorrow over Floyd killing, racism
 ‘Systemic racism must end,’ US Franciscan provincials say
 St. John Paul II Shrine defends President Trump’s visit
 ‘We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism’: Pope prays for George Floyd, criticizes violence

Released Tuesday, Jun. 2

 Bosnian Church leaders defend Mass for victims of Communist massacre
 Filipino priest celebrates Mass on pickup truck
 Leading Orthodox Patriarch: state cannot make rules of Eucharist
 Political group challenges church openings during epidemic
 Milwaukee archdiocese reopens churches despite city order
 Archbishop Gregory decries Trump’s visit to Catholic shrine
 New attacks on Christians in Pakistan
 Attorneys in Cardinal Pell’s trial discuss their work
 Maine diocese suspends priest who ‘inflamed’ events leading to woman’s murder
 Supreme Court won’t put inmate’s transgender surgery on hold
 ‘Here I am, send me’: Vatican releases papal message for World Mission Day
 Papal prayer for poor and vulnerable of Amazonia
 Pope returns to St. Peter’s Square for Regina Caeli address
 Make your lives a reflection of the Church, virgin and bride, Pope tells consecrated virgins
 Vatican ambulance to care for Rome’s homeless
 Cardinal Turkson links Laudato Si’, protests over George Floyd’s death
 Two Canadian dioceses merged
 Federal court upholds California city’s zoning ban on storefront churches
 In West Java, Christian family attacked while worshiping at home
 Chaldean Patriarch urges Iraqis to stay home
 Female theologians back Cardinal Ouellet, say seminaries need women involved in formation

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