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Stories for April 2012

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Monday, Apr. 30

 NY Times columnists rap Vatican move to reform LCWR
 Irish protesters decry Vatican censorship of dissident priests
 Pepsi ends use of aborted cell lines in taste testing
 Italian missionary slain in Brazil
 Terror bombing at Nairobi church
 Vatican conference assesses enduring impact of Pacem in Terris
 Another Catholic college rescinds invitation to pro-abortion commencement speaker
 Pray for vocations, and listen for the call, Pope urges
 Make the Eucharist central, Pope tells newly ordained priests
 Did Italian crime boss pay for burial in Roman basilica?
 Pope's prayer intentions for May 2012
 California bill would outlaw reparative therapy for homosexuality for minors
 Wisconsin prelate defends priests, warns of canonical penalty for calumny
 Scottish cardinal calls for ‘Robin Hood tax’
 Nigeria: 16 dead following gunfire, bomb attack on Mass
 Pontiff tells German bishops that pro multis must be translated literally

Released Friday, Apr. 27

 Understanding the Vatican call for reform of the LCWR
 Canadian parliament lauds memory of Ukrainian Catholic prelate
 Catholic Republicans dominate list of possible Romney running mates
 Bishop not swayed by petition, maintains ban on campus speech by Kennedy widow
 Irish group protests Vatican move to silence dissident priests
 China: blind pro-life activist makes daring escape
 Massachusetts pastor sued for opposition to homosexuality
 Ryan defends compatibility of House budget with Catholic teaching
 US bishops welcome Connecticut’s repeal of death penalty
 Vatican releases annual letter to priests

Released Thursday, Apr. 26

 Vatican commission cautions Chinese Catholics against cooperating with Patriotic Association
 Oceania: bishops rebuke priests who run for public office
 Opposition to same-sex marriage dropping in US, among Catholics
 Iraqi archbishop reaches out to Muslims in bid for inter-religious peace
 Parents, not states, had duty to educate children, Vatican reminds UN
 Illinois priest fights for the right to ad-lib liturgies
 Action urged on 2012 Farm Bill
 EEOC: transgendered persons are protected class
 Cardinal Mahony asks Pope to issue document on immigration
 Cardinal: global financial crisis shows need for evangelization
 Catholic school teacher, fired over IVF, sues diocese
 Irish cabinet minister: priests should violate seal of confessional to report abuse

Released Wednesday, Apr. 25

 Drive carefully, Pope insists
 Pope plans day-long trip to centers of Italian monastic tradition
 NPR broadcast examines Vatican demand for reform of LCWR
 New curial posts give extra Vatican clout to several cardinals
 Without prayer, activism is sterile, Pope cautions
 Why does Catholic News Service provide publicity for Congressional critic of Pope, Cardinal Dolan?
 Italian officials, investigating girl's disappearance, plan to open gangster's tomb
 The Vatican and the LCWR: it's not about Obamacare
 Patriotic Association takes control at ordination of Chinese bishop
 Pope appoints special commission of cardinals to probe Vatican leaks
 Caritas appeal for peace in Sudan
 Prelates urge federal action on immigration
 Renewed action urged against HHS mandate
 Prelate calls for closing of Guantanamo
 Georgetown faculty criticize Ryan on eve of lecture
 Nearly 100 Notre Dame faculty call for bishop’s resignation from board

Released Tuesday, Apr. 24

 Spokesman for Moscow Patriarchate sees Russia as alternative to capitalism
 South Sudan: archbishop pleads for help to stave off war
 Archbishop Sartain praises contributions of women religious in US
 China reports over 22,000 baptisms at Easter
 CNN coverage hypes Earth Day, ignores March for Life
 Watching Japan's demographic suicide
 Another Chinese bishop's ordination brings new controversy
 Christian peace activist detained in Syria for 'moral support' of insurgency
 88-page tribute to Pontiff appears in 3 newspapers
 Nuns preparing 250,000 hosts for Dublin Eucharistic congress
 Joint Methodist-Catholic statement on Eucharist and ecology
 Mexican nun beatified
 Canada: secularist outrage at pro-life petition at Catholic school
 Sudan: officials arrest Catholic aid workers, close down Caritas office

Released Monday, Apr. 23

 Douthat on homosexuality: not my views, but God's plan matters
 Pope notes key role of women in building American Catholicism
 Papal commission on Chinese Church discusses formation of laity
 Court orders SNAP to release internal records
 British churches would be required to solemnize same-sex unions, legal expert warns
 Moscow: 40,000 rally to defend Orthodox Church against 'anti-Russian' criticism
 Kenya: priest wins human-rights award for work with urban poor
 Pope condemns sexual exploitation, organ trafficking
 Pope asks children, parents to prepare zealously for First Communion
 Irish bishops resisting Vatican plan to downsize Irish hierarchy
 Archbishop Wenski: religious freedom ‘under assault’
 USCCB participates in dialogues with Hindus, Muslims
 Vatican spokesman looks ahead to pontificate’s 8th year
 China: rise in baptisms, ordinations
 Economic crisis threatens Greek Orthodox Church
 Sudan: Muslim mob burns Catholic parish

Released Friday, Apr. 20

 Turkey: Church seeks return of confiscated properties
 Italian prime minister visits Pope to deliver birthday greeting
 Friday-evening concert at Vatican celebrates Pope's birthday
 Boston archdiocese closes church, ending parishioners' vigil after 7 years
 Dissident Irish priests must grapple with Church authority, Catholic writer argues
 Word of God lives on in Church tradition, Pope reminds Biblical Commission
 Pope to visit Serbia for Orthodox celebrations in 2013?
 Regular churchgoers favor Romney, Pew poll shows
 After priest flees country, California diocese settles sex-abuse case
 Chicago doctor discusses how faith led him to abandon IVF
 Prelate discusses work of Papal Foundation
 Prosecutor: separate allegation against West Virginia bishop
 Ryan dismisses bishops’ criticism of House budget plan
 Groups blast Peoria bishop’s remarks on Obama
 USCCB calls upon Obama to ban landmines

Released Thursday, Apr. 19

 Excommunicated Chinese bishop insists on joining in ordination ceremony
 Doctors' group defends Spanish bishop's warning against homosexual activity
 Seattle parishioner defends archdiocesan support for marriage effort
 No way to justify cooperation with Obama mandate, moral theologian argues
 San Francisco parish hosts drag show
 LCWR 'stunned' by Vatican crackdown
 Speaker Boehner rebuts USCCB criticism of Republican budget plan
 Pakistani court approves forced conversion and marriage
 Mali bishops warn of Sharia imposition
 Father Fessio, John Allen pay tribute to Pope Benedict
 Lutheran denomination joins bishop in defending religious liberty
 West Virginia bishop accused of abuse in hearsay trial testimony
 Nuncio in Syria calls for interreligious appeal for peace
 US bishops call for ‘complete abolition’ of trade embargo against Cuba

Released Wednesday, Apr. 18

 Vatican demands reform of American nuns' leadership group
 Vatican receives positive response from SSPX; reconciliation seen within weeks
 California man's healing could lead to beatification of German chaplain at Nazi prison camps
 Pope asks for prayers to 'continue my service;' no hint of retirement thoughts
 Angelicum will offer joint degree in philosophy and finance
 Active laity spurs growth of Catholicism in South Korea
 Prayers, not programs, sustain the Church, Pope tells weekly audience
 Chinese bishop's ordination pits Vatican against Patriotic Association
 Canadian group wants curb on exorcisms
 Priest discusses challenges facing Christian media in Middle East
 Arizona bans late-term abortions
 Study: belief in God strongest in Philippines, weakest in former East Germany
 USCCB criticizes House budget cuts
 Crowd attacks 2 priests in Pakistan
 US bishops appeal ruling on constitutionality of federal anti-trafficking grants

Released Tuesday, Apr. 17

 China subjects Catholic bishops, priests to 'political sessions'
 Biographer of Pius XII rejects charge that Vatican helped Nazi war criminals escape
 Pope reflects on his birthday, his baptism, and his 'final stage of life's journey'
 Cleveland bishop will reopen 12 parishes in accord with Vatican ruling
 Priest flees country on eve of testimony in California sex-abuse case
 Korean War chaplain is recommended for Congressional Medal of Honor
 Vatican conference traces impact of Constantine's conversion
 Catholic Charities honors organization that broke with bishops over mandate
 Philippine priest wins ‘green Nobel’ prize
 China: excommunicated prelate to take part in bishop’s ordination
 Bishop calls for ‘heroic Catholicism,’ rips Obama’s ‘radical pro-abortion agenda’
 US bishops issue document on New Evangelization

Released Monday, Apr. 16

 Vietnamese priest comatose after beating by police
 Belgian bishop would ordain married men
 Patriarch Bartholomew leads Orthodox in Easter celebration
 Vatican, SSPX reported ready to reconcile
 Recalling the heroism of the Titanic's Catholic chaplain
 Catholic broadcasts barred after coup in Guinea-Bissau
 Australian archbishop wants full investigation on abuse-victim suicides
 Papal spokesman says Vatican knows nothing about mysterious 1983 kidnapping
 Amid political debate, new effort to promote Church teaching on contraception, NFP
 'Holy Robe' draws thousands to exposition in German cathedral
 'Peace of Christ' flows from victory over sin, Pope tells Sunday audience
 Pope Benedict quietly celebrates 85th birthday
 Jesuit leader, small school faulted for failure to curb notorious abuser
 Catholic Relief Services aids victims of Kony, Lord's Resistance Army
 Vatican spokesman summarizes Pontiff's accomplishments
 Philippines: bishop suspends mall Masses to protest tree removal
 India: Muslim extremists persecute Christian villagers
 Northern Ireland: men fined for anti-Catholic Facebook messages
 Native American tribe adopts Canadian prelate

Released Friday, Apr. 13

 New Vatican volume stresses value of voluntarism
 New crop of seminarians favor Catholic traditions
 Orthodox pilgrims in Jerusalem for Good Friday, Easter ceremonies
 SSPX has sent new response to Holy See on 'doctrinal preamble'
 High suicide rate discovered among Australian clerical abuse victims
 Cardinal Ratzinger once preferred Italian Pontiffs
 Polls don't determine doctrine, Irish columnist reminds readers
 Italian priest suspended for partisan political campaign
 New Zealand: study points to religious revival among youth
 Cardinal discusses plans for Order of Holy Sepulchre
 Iran: 12 Christians on trial for apostasy
 Cardinal Pell apologizes for remarks about the Jews
 Seattle parishes refuse to collect signatures for marriage referendum
 Pakistan: government commission to discuss forced conversions to Islam

Released Thursday, Apr. 12

 Overruled by cardinal on gay member of parish council, Austrian pastor resigns
 US bishops launch major offensive to protect religious liberty
 CDF preparing negative report on liturgical practices of Necatechumenal Way?
 Pontifical Council for Culture explores collaboration with Asia, African governments
 Head of UN AIDS effort meets with Pontiff
 Prominent Germans collaborate in book on Pope Benedict
 French Muslim scholar calls for rejection of violence, reformulation of Islamic thought
 Pontifical Biblical Commission to discuss inspiration in Scriptures
 Irish poll finds broad dissent among Catholics
 Media fascinated by gun-loving cardinal
 California Catholic college hosts drag show
 CHA recommends health-care response to climate change
 Missions week to precede World Youth Day in Brazil
 Turkey: Protestant pastor attacked
 Pakistan: reopening of convent school destroyed by Taliban
 Canada: 2 Anglican bishops to enter Catholic Church, will become part of US ordinariate

Released Wednesday, Apr. 11

 Turkish church in tax dispute
 Peru's Catholic university rejects Vatican deadline; conflict continues
 Professor laments Pope's decision not to criticize Castro regime
 New charges that Belgian Cardinal Danneels knew of abuse complaints years ago
 Irish priest sent to monastery to reflect on dissenting views
 Vatican, Oxford libraries will preserve ancient manuscripts in digital form
 Court in India clears government leader of charges in religious bloodshed
 Homosexual union celebrated in French mosque
 Easter rekindles faith, excites evangelical zeal, Pope tells audience
 Ryan says Catholic faith influenced budget plan
 Leading Franciscan opposes military intervention in Syria
 Court: images of aborted children are protected by 1st Amendment
 Tunisia: fresco of saint vandalized, crosses smashed
 Abuse scandal’s total cost: $2.49 billion since 2004

Released Tuesday, Apr. 10

 Puerto Rican Cardinal Aponte Martinez dead at 89
 Cardinal Burke sees 'no excuse' for employers covering contraceptive costs
 Cardinal Pell debates atheist Dawkins
 Dispute over true reasons for cancellation of Vatican stem-cell conference
 Japanese bishops hold neutrality on peaceful nuclear power
 Nun tells Philadelphia court she was fired for noting priest's child-porn conviction
 Report on Irish schools questions primacy of religious education
 CAFOD demands UN, UK action on world poverty
 Laos: chapel confiscated, Catholics pray outside
 Iran: historic church, cemetery demolished
 Cuban priest declared venerable
 Belarus president calls upon Church to act as bridge to Western Europe
 Arab Christians seek Pope’s encouragement, guidance

Released Monday, Apr. 9

 Vatican prodding Austrian bishops to act against dissenting priests?
 No papal visit to Ireland this year
 China's 'underground' Church celebrates Easter with caution; government ramps up pressure
 Vandals hit Seattle's cathedral
 Irish priests' group decries Vatican move to silence dissident cleric
 Hong Kong diocese continues success in evangelization: 3,500 received at Easter Vigil
 Confirmed: Pope will visit Lebanon in September
 French cardinal taken ill while concelebrating Easter Sunday Mass with Pope
 Resurrection narratives confirm women's key role in Church, Pope notes
 Pope's Easter prayers for peace in Middle East, Africa
 Cardinal Dolan decries HHS mandate, weighs JFK church-state speech
 Nigeria: dozens dead, churches damaged in bomb blast
 Cardinal Daoud dead at 81
 Ugandan prelate urges president to step down in 4 years
 Vatican spokesman links via crucis, family life

Released Sunday, Apr. 8

 Pope Benedict: Homily at Easter Vigil Mass (full text)
 Pope Benedict: Easter Message Urbi et Orbi (To the City and to the World)

Released Friday, Apr. 6

 Harvard scientists see breakthrough on cystic fibrosis, using adult stem cells
 Focolare movement seen a growing influence inside Vatican
 Luxury wristwatch causes publicity headache for Moscow Patriarch
 Judge blocks release of prelates' testimony on sex-abuse policies in Milwaukee archdiocese
 Scottish cardinal will urge all Christians to wear the cross
 Venezuela: Chávez weeps at Mass, begs for healing
 Typical new US nun: 39-year-old who prays Rosary, comes from large family
 Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum: full text of meditations

Released Thursday, Apr. 5

 Father Pfleger undeterred by vandalism at parish
 Pakistani school textbooks encourage Islamic extremism, report finds
 Koreans, North and South, meet to pray for peace, reunification
 Site of Last Supper remains focus of Vatican-Israel dispute for control
 Vatican moving against dissident Irish priest?
 Missouri judge says Bishop Finn must face trial
 In his agony, Jesus shows freedom comes in obedience to God, Pope says at Holy Thursday liturgy
 Recalling Pope Benedict's fear as conclave moved to elect him
 Irish newspaper prints anti-Christian diatribe
 Cardinal appeals for Sahel aid in Easter message
 Singapore: company apologizes to prelate for offensive advertisement
 Jesus' example is path to peace in Holy Land, says Jerusalem Patriarch
 Pope raps dissident priests in Chrism Mass homily

Released Wednesday, Apr. 4

 Libertarians should protect marriage, analyst argues
 Pope offers support for efforts to eliminate land mines
 Peru Catholic University announces 11th-hour accord to maintain pontifical status
 Bishop explains opposition to commencement speech by Kennedy widow
 Catholic Church in Holy Land plans switch to Orthodox calendar for Easter
 Budget problems, not pro-life pressure, forced cancellation of stem-cell conference, Vatican body insists
 Pope reports on trip to Mexico, Cuba
 Cross vandalized at Chicago church
 USCCB, CRS urge action on Sudan
 Italian businessman leaves $2.3B to diocese
 Archbishop Chaput: shutting down charitable services is ‘very much a possibility’
 Jesuit university to end contraception, sterilization coverage

Released Tuesday, Apr. 3

 Ireland: indecent images shown to parents during First Communion presentation
 Pakistani Christians face threats during Holy Week
 In annual message to the world's Buddhists, Vatican applauds educational cooperation
 San Francisco police remove 'Occupy' protesters from vacant archdiocesan building
 Irish broadcast executives step down over inaccurate charge against priest
 Penitents in Philippines plan to crucify themselves despite bishops' pleas
 Anxious Christians in Baghdad hope for peaceful Easter celebration
 Mexico: cult figures arrested for ritual killings
 Ex-rebels occupy cathedral in El Salvador, prevent services
 Pope’s journey to Mexico, Cuba advanced political freedom, liturgical reform
 Iranian bishop exhorts Christians of West to use freedom for the good
 Irish bishops issue pastoral letter on conversion
 Rebels destroy Catholic parish in Mali
 Syria: Christians flee al-Qusayr

Released Monday, Apr. 2

 Orthodox leaders commit to work for peace in Syria
 Drought leaves Italians praying for rain
 Desecrations prompt special measures to protect Eucharist in Italy
 Oppose IVF clinic construction, Illinois priest urges parishioners
 Orthodox abbot in Mount Athos controversy released on bail
 Vatican envoy encourages Arab League action to stem violence in Syria
 Cardinal Dolan: Obama promised to respect conscience
 Pope opens Holy Week with Palm Sunday procession, Mass
 Papal challenge to World Youth Day participants: be apostles
 St. Clare’s ageless appeal to young people
 Rely on God’s love to recover after sins, Pope tells prisoners
 Papal donations to support refugees in Syria, agriculture in Cuba
 Plans move forward for 2013 World Youth Day in Brazil
 Cardinal permits man in homosexual partnership to serve on parish council
 Digital media seminar for Middle East prelates
 Sostituto: Pope, previously unknown to many, won over Cubans’ hearts
 Caritas appeal for Niger
 Hindus attack Christians in Karnataka
 Nigerian prelates denounce Boko Haram
 Cuba declares Good Friday a national holiday

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