Stories for July 2016

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jul. 29

 Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kaine 'personally' favors Hyde amendment
 Syro-Malabar eparchy established in Britain
 Papal advice for newlyweds
 French Muslims to attend Sunday Mass in show of solidarity
 Only the Cross overcomes evil, Pope reminds World Youth Day participants
 Pope Francis visits Auschwitz
 Diplomatic conflict escalates between Serbia, Croatia over Blessed Stepinac
 Anglicans to build $5M pilgrimage center in Santiago de Compostela
 Judge: parish, school assets will not be part of Minnesota diocese’s bankruptcy settlement
 Italy deports Moroccans who threatened churches
 White House reacts to Pope’s comments on ‘world at war’
 Russian patriarch decries murder of French priest

Released Thursday, Jul. 28

 French religious leaders seek extra government protection
 Pope stops to pray with young cancer victims, elderly Polish cardinal
 Polish bishops reaffirm: no Communion for divorced/remarried
 Gossip is 'terrorism of words,' Pope tells young people in Poland
 French priest killed 'in hatred of the faith,' says Australian archbishop
 Pope OK after falling headlong during procession at Mass in Czestochowa
 Nova Scotia court grants accreditation victory to Christian law school
 Pope Francis at Czestochowa: in history, a ‘Marian thread’ is interwoven with the ‘divine thread’
 Belfast: Catholic priest named canon of Anglican cathedral
 Congo’s bishops renew call for national dialogue to avoid chaos
 Sistine Chapel Choir wins Germany’s highest classical music award
 Syriac Catholic patriarch decries actions of Western leaders, European prelates
 At Mass for slain French priest, cardinal contrasts terrorists’ ‘Moloch’ with Christian hope

Released Wednesday, Jul. 27

 Sen. Kaine reverses position, opposes Hyde Amendment
 Cardinal Pell under investigation for abuse, Australian broadcast reports
 Pope prays at St. Mary Major before trip to Poland
 In Guam, Vatican delegate rejects former archbishop's policies on abuse
 French bishops announce day of fasting, prayer after murder of priest
 Mass deportation of immigrants would be 'intrinsic evil'—like abortion—Texas bishop argues
 Leading Islamic cleric condemns killing of French priest
 Assailant of Father Hamel was under police surveillance
 Pope arrives in Krakow, challenges Poland on immigration
 'Not a religious war,' Pope says
 World Youth Day opens in Krakow
 African bishops pledge to protect, defend family
 Pope urges Texas young people: ‘Play life to the full!’
 Barbados bishop laments buying of votes
 PA high court upholds reversal of Philadelphia monsignor’s conviction
 Serbia protests annulment of Blessed Stepinac’s conviction

Released Tuesday, Jul. 26

 Man kills 18 at Japanese center for disabled
 Court dismisses charges against investigator who exposed Planned Parenthood fetal-tissue sales
 Missouri church vandalized
 French church attacked during Mass, priest murdered
 Vatican’s financial authority signs accord with Bank of Italy
 Philippine bishops launch ‘thou shalt not kill’ campaign
 Vatican cardinal visits South Sudan, calls for peace
 President Obama sees ‘time of spiritual renewal’ for Muslims

Released Monday, Jul. 25

 Coptic Pope suspends audience as religious strife escalates in Egypt
 Humanitarian crisis in South Sudan worsening, charitable group warns
 Turkish government blames reformist Muslim group for failed coup
 Aid worker, kidnapped in Afghanistan, is released
 Bureaucratic infighting at Vatican raising questions about financial reforms
 Pope drops formal address to Polish bishops from schedule for Krakow visit
 Polish bishops rap fearmongers on immigration
 Vatican newspaper publishes defense of Amoris Laetitia
 France, Holy See update agreement on French church in Rome
 Pope reconstitutes membership of Vatican agency on ecclesiastical universities
 South Korea’s bishops oppose anti-missile defense system
 Pope Francis: the word ‘Father’ is the ‘secret of Jesus’ prayer’
 Papal condolences following Munich shooting

Released Friday, Jul. 22

 Venezuela asks Vatican to mediate in crisis
 Cardinal Sarah: St. Mary Magdalene shows need to recover 'primary of adoration'
 Croatian court overturns conviction of Cardinal Stepinac
 Pope issues new norms for women's contemplative religious communities
 Pakistan: Eucharistic congress counters conversions to Protestantism
 Cardinal Burke: Islam is ‘fundamentally a form of government’
 USCCB president announces day of prayer, task force for community peace
 Syria: patriarch blasts Western efforts to remove Assad
 Bishop: Turkey’s Catholics are safe because they stay out of politics

Released Thursday, Jul. 21

 Pope presided at wedding of deaf couple
 Lebanese prosecutor names three suspects in 2013 kidnapping of Orthodox nuns
 Profile of Cardinal Dziwiz: longtime secretary to St. John Paul II now hosting World Youth Day
 Top aide to Cardinal Pell leaving Secretariat for Economy
 Memo: nuncio curtailed investigation of Minnesota archbishop
 Detroit priest sentenced for embezzlement
 Argentina: nuns accused of helping hide $9M
 Africa to be consecrated to the Divine Mercy
 Christian leaders warn of Zimbabwe’s ‘total collapse’
 New nuncio: US bishops’ main challenge is evangelization

Released Wednesday, Jul. 20

 Co-founder of Neocatechumenal Way dead at 85
 Video released of priest kidnapped in Yemen, but no new information
 Schedule set for Pope's afternoon trip to Assisi, August 4
 Beatification sought for theologian Romano Guardini
 Vatican envoy urges UN members not to veto action on war crimes
 Pope sends greetings to Poland, where stage is set for World Youth Day
 Former OSV publisher to head US bishops' news service
 Military officer, convicted of killing Guatemalan bishop, dies in prison riot
 Orthodox Patriarch left Turkey just before coup, sparking rumors
 Buttiglione backs Amoris Laetitia in L'Osservatore Romano article
 At UN, Vatican envoy deplores child trafficking
 Rebel rockets rain down on Christian quarter in Aleppo
 2 churches attacked in Turkey
 Parish priest in Nice builds good relations with Muslims, evangelizes
 40,000 Americans to take part in World Youth Day in Poland
 Chilean bishop: multinational corporations trying to influence Catholic organizations
 Patriarch Bartholomew foresees significant ecumenical progress in coming years
 Boston cardinal concerned about Trump’s comments on Muslims

Released Tuesday, Jul. 19

 See gifts in every person, Cardinal Tagle urges faithful
 Catholic Theological Society honors 'married' homosexual scholar
 African bishops plead for peace in South Sudan, condemn all violence
 Chinese officials balk at visas for World Youth Day travel
 Pope to Dominicans: 'testify to mercy'
 Archbishop Gänswein says loyalty to Pope Benedict makes him unwelcome in Germany
 Illinois bishop defends Archbishop Chaput’s teaching on Communion for divorced/remarried
 Brooklyn diocesan spokesman delivers invocation at GOP convention
 Church will foster ‘life-saving dialogue,’ USCCB president says following police shooting
 Russian Orthodox Church: recent council in Crete was ‘important’ but ‘not pan-Orthodox’
 Philippine bishops warn against vigilantism, police killing of suspects

Released Monday, Jul. 18

 German cardinal sees negative results from resignation of Benedict XVI
 Dissident Boston 'parish' sets up rival congregation
 Papal encouragement for Evangelical meeting in Washington
 Italian Church receives $1.3 billion from 'church tax'
 Statistics show sharp decline of German Catholic Church
 Baton Rouge bishop calls for week of prayer and fasting after police slain
 South African bishops urge lawmakers to address media censorship
 Pope Francis: listening is at heart of hospitality
 Pope prays for victims of Nice terrorist attack
 Iraqi bishop laments conditions in refugee camps
 Understand the jihadists’ strategy, Muslim journalist writes in Vatican newpaper
 Turkey needs dialogue, says bishop

Released Friday, Jul. 15

 After renovation, prison where Sts. Peter and Paul were jailed now open to visitors
 Vatican, China working toward accord?
 South Sudan bishop analyzes conflict
 Vatican condemns terrorist attack in Nice
 Christian man arrested on blasphemy charges in Pakistan
 Ukrainian cardinal decries Russia’s ‘imperial ambitions’
 USCCB awards nearly $1.2M to Church in Africa

Released Thursday, Jul. 14

 Vatican envoy tells UN: human rights are not created by states
 Pope makes surprise visit to office of pontifical commission
 Venezuelan College for seminarians in Rome closed by national emergency
 US Catholic voters lean toward Clinton, survey shows
 Irish nuns remaining in South Sudan
 House passes Conscience Protection Act
 Christian girl abducted, father killed in Pakistan
 Leading Philippine prelate: we will ‘stand up for the moral right’ and ‘resist the moral wrong’
 Cardinal praises new British PM
 Papal condolences following train collision

Released Wednesday, Jul. 13

 Venezuelan bishops respond to national crisis
 At UN, Vatican envoy calls for 2-state solution in Middle East, questions morality of drone strikes
 Joint Orthodox-Catholic commission begins study on Cardinal Stepanic
 Archbishop Zimowski, head of Pontifical Council for Health Care, dead at 67
 South Sudan: 16,000 take refuge in parishes
 US laywoman named member of Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications
 Ukrainian Catholic leader: EU integration can help preserve independence from Russia
 House committee holds hearing on First Amendment Defense Act; prelates call for passage
 Cardinal suggests new meeting between Pope, Russian patriarch

Released Tuesday, Jul. 12

 Church halts all non-sacramental activities in besieged Syrian city
 Father Lombardi: Pope does not need a spin doctor
 Pope chooses Protestant to produce Argentine edition of Vatican newspaper
 Bush: Pope's visit to Mexican border helped Trump
 Seminarian drowns saving woman
 Vatican works to rekindle dialogue with Sunni Muslim scholars
 USCCB president: ‘tremendous gratitude’ for appointment of Greg Burke as Vatican spokesman
 South Sudan’s Christian leaders call for peace, repentance as thousands flee capital
 Scotland’s bishops call for ‘courageous steps’ toward nuclear disarmament
 Work should not become an idol, says Vatican prelate
 Chinese publisher has printed 150M Bibles

Released Monday, Jul. 11

 Massachusetts bishops issue neutral statement on state guarantee for 'transgender' rights
 Schedule released for papal trip to Georgia, Azerbaijan
 Rwandan leaders convicted of massacre at church
 Chinese officials to honor judge who ordered death of martyr
 New fighting prompts fear of genocide in South Sudan
 Vatican deflates 'ad orientem' suggestion
 English cardinal warns priests against 'ad orientem' liturgy
 Pope cuts back authority of Secretariat for Economy
 USCCB president: ‘the police are not a faceless enemy’
 Pope appoints American layman as chief Vatican spokesman
 Pope Francis: imitate Good Samaritan, doing good works to those in need
 Pope names new apostolic nuncio to Mexico
 Cardinal Piovanelli dead at 92
 Vatican message calls for respect, protection of seafarers’ rights
 Pope encourages Argentines to fight against global throwaway culture
 Prelate: non-Catholic Armenians see Pope as ‘true universal pastor’

Released Friday, Jul. 8

 Immigrants occupy Regensburg cathedral
 Italy: Nigerian Christian refugee killed in racist attack
 Russian 'anti-terror' legislation raises questions of religious freedom
 Dallas bishop pleads for prayers after fatal shootings of police
 Irish lawmakers reject proposal to allow abortion in cases of fetal abnomality
 Pope encourages Eucharistic adoration
 Vatican newspaper offers reflection on conversions to Islam
 Brazilian bishops’ conference: ‘heartfelt gratitude’ for work of prelate who resigned
 Prelates call for immediate passage of Conscience Protection Act; House vote scheduled
 California bishop declared venerable; 8 other beatification causes advance

Released Thursday, Jul. 7

 Vatileaks verdicts: two convicted; journalists cleared
 Patriarch: don’t encourage Christians to leave the Middle East
 Argentine Catholics seek beatification for clerics killed by military regime
 Vietnamese government in new bid to seize land from Catholic monks
 Venezuela’s bishops gather amid rising hunger, violence
 Brazilian archbishop who resigned criticized aspects of 2014 Synod; prosecutor alleges abuse cover-up
 Archbishop Cupich named member of Congregation for Bishops

Released Wednesday, Jul. 6

 Bangladesh bishop: family failures breed radicalism
 Coptic nun killed by stray bullet in shoot-out in Egypt
 Pennsylvania sex-abuse whistle-blower found dead, apparent suicide
 Indian court: government does not recognize Church annulment decrees
 Court rules same-sex parents both belong on child's birth certificate
 Top Vatican liturgical official urges 'ad orientem' liturgy
 Lawyers ask tribunal to acquit top 'Vatileaks II' defendants
 Pope asks the poor to pray for the conversion of the rich
 Pope meets with parents of murdered American student
 Missionary: Muslim rebel coalition controls 60% of Central African Republic
 Brazilian archbishop resigns following allegation
 Syria: Amnesty International deplores torture, persecution in rebel-held areas
 Colombian cardinal welcomes peace progress, calls on guerillas to take further steps

Released Tuesday, Jul. 5

 Suicide bombing at Medina
 Belgian Catholic nursing home fined for refusing euthanasia
 Archbishop Chaput: divorced/remarried must live as brother and sister to receive Communion
 Papal visit to Assisi scheduled for August anniversary
 Prosecutors ask for four convictions, one acquittal in 'Vatileaks' trial
 Ecumenical gathering: ‘Europe must not become a fortress’
 Cardinal Nichols, other British religious leaders decry racial hatred
 Bishops’ commission welcomes EU’s new global strategy
 1st Muslim call to prayer inside Hagia Sophia since 1931
 Retired Jerusalem patriarch speaks about challenges faced by his successor
 Pope Francis: pray, work for peace in Syria

Released Monday, Jul. 4

 Pope will not be deterred by criticism; says resignation was 'act of governance' by Benedict XVI
 Vatican cautions against rumor of special administrator for Medjugorje
 Vatican continuing talks with SSPX
 Bangladesh: bishops condemn terror attack, urge forgiveness
 Christian internet dating site required to offer equal services for gay users
 Seminarians beaten by mob in Venezuela
 Indonesian priest becomes political candidate, suspended from ministry
 Revival effort at Shrine of the North American Martyrs
 Dominican cardinal retires; successor named
 Pope Francis: hostility, joy surround missionary proclamation
 Papal tribute to St. Martin, the ‘father of the poor’
 Pope calls on Europe to ‘put the human person back at the center’
 Pope condemns terrorist attack in Bangladesh

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