Stories for September 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Sep. 30

 Cardinal Zen trial adjourned for a month
 Science needs ethicists, more open debate, some say at Vatican conference
 Food cannot be used as ‘bargaining chip,’ Pope says
 Ortega dictatorship expels another religious congregation from Nicaragua
 USCCB: Synod process ‘not perfect,’ but synodality is ‘not over’
 Theme announced for Pope’s message for World Communications Day: ‘Speak with the heart’
 Citing ‘my Church,’ President Biden criticizes proposed 15-week abortion ban
 Social programs should assist families, not supplant them, Vatican diplomat says at UN
 Most frequently taught NFP methods in diocesan programs: Billings, Marquette, CCL
 Bishops welcome presidential refugee cap of 125,000 over next year

Released Thursday, Sep. 29

 Russian Catholic bishops support rights of conscientious objectors
 Oxford closes Catholic college
 Pittsburgh diocese discourages attendance at traditionalist conference
 Nicaragua’s Ortega describes Church as ‘perfect tyranny’
 Vatican confirms sanctions on Nobel-laureate bishop
 Vatican hosts international meeting on ‘Sport for All’
 Church in Nicaragua asks for continued prayers for abducted bishop and priests
 Arizona judge rules 1864 law banning nearly all abortions can take effect
 Jesus is the best, most faithful friend a person can have, Pope says
 Head of Vatican Synod office: ‘Let us trust in our people’
 Not ‘good guys and bad guys’: Pope describes war as ‘imperialisms in conflict,’ with Ukraine as victim
 USCCB action alert: ‘Urge HHS to do no harm to life and liberty’
 Chief Rabbi of Rome assesses Jewish-Vatican relations
 Article examines clergy-penitent privilege
 Ukrainian Catholic leader rues ‘truly hellish day’

Released Wednesday, Sep. 28

 Salvadoran archbishop criticized for political comment
 South Sudan archbishop decries tribalism
 London Times editorial raps Vatican silence on Zen trial
 Pope will visit Bahrain in November for inter-religious conference
 Timorese prelate, Nobel laureate, accused of abuse
 Russian priest says Catholics, including clerics, fear conscription
 Cardinals Cupich and Dolan criticize Biden administration’s proposed transgender mandate
 Jerusalem Patriarch condemns settler action at Al-Aqsa Mosque
 Top Italian prelate tells new government that Church will not be silent
 Iranian Christians demand truth and justice for Mahsa Amini
 Is new Vatican prosecutor a bull in a china shop, or relentlessly effective?
 Papal preface to book on Jesus’ life
 Northern Ireland’s bishops call for solidarity in face of economic crisis
 Latin Mass Society leader optimistic about future of extraordinary form
 The young French Catholics sharing a roof with the homeless

Released Tuesday, Sep. 27

 Catholic charities ousted from Algeria
 Vatican calls for ‘sustainable’ tourism
 Pro-life Catholic clinic in Denver area vandalized, suspect quickly arrested
 Washington Post columnist rips Catholic health care institutions
 President Biden issues Rosh Hashanah greetings
 Cardinal Arinze criticizes Belgian bishops’ liturgical service for same-sex unions
 Cuba approves same-sex marriage in unusual referendum
 Vatican opens canonical investigation of retired Australian bishop
 18-year-old leads fight to protect children from transgender surgeries
 Vatican foreign minister lauds work of IAEA
 Seek silence amid noisy world, Pope tells Capuchin sisters
 Canadian bishops’ president issues annual report

Released Monday, Sep. 26

 Pro-life activist arrested in SWAT team raid
 Italy’s new leader seen posing challenge for Pope Francis
 Amsterdam diocese to close 60% of churches
 Ukrainian Orthodox Church decries Russian bid to annex occupied territories
 Young Catholics leaving Russia after military mobilization
 Portuguese cardinal named to head Vatican’s education dicastery
 Trial of Cardinal Zen begins in Hong Kong
 Pope praises Shalom community’s approach to evangelization
 India: Christian teachers charged under anti-conversion law
 Say ‘yes to a world united among peoples,’ Cardinal Parolin tells UN
 Pope appeals to the young to save the planet, find peace
 Leading German bishop to stay in post despite damning report
 Cardinal Müller discusses new world order
 Report: Patriarch Kirill says dying in war against Ukraine ‘cleanses away all sins’
 Pope Francis: The Eucharist teaches us to adore God rather than ourselves
 Swiss voters reject financial contribution to renovation of Swiss Guards’ barracks
 Papal appeals for peace in Myanmar, Ukraine, Cameroon
 USCCB committee chair lends support to Sen. Graham’s national abortion legislation
 Oral Roberts University hosts Catholic-Pentecostal dialogue

Released Saturday, Sep. 24

 Background: World Day of Migrants and Refugees

Released Friday, Sep. 23

 Vatican’s top prosecutor resigns
 Cardinal Parolin meets with Russia’s foreign minister
 Papal preface to Argentine book
 Pope Francis to International Thomistic Congress: Go to Thomas
 Argentine imam meets with Pontiff
 Pope Francis extends a hand to China
 France won’t extradite priest, 92, to Canada, but Oblates might expel him
 Cardinal Müller: Vatican ‘should not sacrifice Cardinal Zen for China’
 Italian LGBT advocates meet Pope Francis, discuss Church ‘that excludes no one’
 Results of Vatican’s synod session with the disabled presented to Pope
 Nigerian bishop deplores military attack on city market

Released Thursday, Sep. 22

 Pregnancy center demands release of firebombing video
 Cameroon Church leaders reject kidnappers’ ransom demand
 LGBT initiative reflects spirit of Pope Francis, Belgian leader says
 Bishop meets with priests in troubled French diocese
 Pope encourages Norbertines to ‘rethink history,’ be missionaries
 Pope urges business consultants to promote diversity
 Senior German bishop mishandled abuse cases, says report
 Pope receives Ivorian president
 Papal prayer, call for solidarity for victims of Hurricane Fiona
 Bolivian VP meets with Pontiff
 Pope: May we pray for and help those with Alzheimer’s disease
 Renew commitment to nuclear test ban, Vatican Secretary of State urges
 In Haiti, radio hosts call for attacks on Catholic institutions
 Church source warns of worsening situation in Tigray
 Roll back abortions in VA hospitals, US bishops, military archdiocese urge
 ‘Building a Culture of Life in a Post-Roe World’: USCCB issues Respect Life Month statement

Released Wednesday, Sep. 21

 Pope prays for ‘tormented’ Ukraine, decries ‘madness’ of nuclear threat
 Pope, at weekly audience, reflects on Kazakhstan visit
 Catholic peace foundation fears for anarchy in Cameroon as militias get out of ontrol
 Pope to new bishops: Be open to dialogue and close to poor
 Cardinal Parolin, at UN, highlights urgent need for Global Educational Pact
 Nicaraguan dictatorship prohibits procession for St. Michael the Archangel and St. Jerome
 Yeshiva University puts all student club activities on hold following Supreme Court decision
 Chaldean Catholic Patriarch calls for union with Assyrian Church of the East
 Show support for ‘Dreamers,’ bishops urge in action alert
 Hosts for Matera Eucharistic Congress prepared by prison inmates
 Cardinal prays at queen’s funeral, signaling Charles’ openness to dialogue
 USCCB publishes regional synod summaries

Released Tuesday, Sep. 20

 Queen Elizabeth’s role in two churches—Anglican and Presbyterian—recalled
 Cameroon kidnappers make ransom demand on Church
 Belgian bishops publish liturgical service for same-sex unions
 Cardinal Krajewski prays at mass grave site in Ukrainian city
 Sostituto travels to East Timor, opens nunciature
 Irish Primate pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth, ‘courageous peacemaker’
 Vatican won’t add ‘Holy Spouses’ feast to universal calendar
 Patriarch Kirill declares the futility of attempts to intimidate the Russians
 Karnataka’s upper house approves toughest anti-conversion law
 Ukrainian seminarians prepare for priesthood in time of war
 Vatican organizes conference on ‘holiness today’
 Trial set back, but set to go ahead, for Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen
 Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza, former USCCB president, dies at 91
 US bishops release national synthesis outlining common themes raised in synod listening sessions

Released Monday, Sep. 19

 Change mankind’s course to avoid climate change, Pope says in new interview
 Haitian Church leaders urge action to end unrest
 Blood of St. Januarius liquefies
 Vatican cardinal escapes gunfire in Ukraine
 National abortion ban would be constitutional, legal scholars reason
 Papal prayer for peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia
 Pope encourages Trappists to pursue quest inspired by Jesus’ ‘dreams’
 Pope at Angelus: Be creative and clever in doing good always
 Church burned, priests and religious sister kidnapped in war-torn Cameroon
 Trial opens for Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen
 Orthodox prelate retires following allegation of affair
 French bishops’ conference leaders travel to Kyiv
 ‘Fight like heaven’: Lansing bishop begins 54-day Rosary novena for defeat of abortion ballot initiative
 US bishops publish prayer for Season of Creation
 USCCB: During National Migration Week, ‘encounter those living on the existential peripheries’
 US-based group is leading the Pope’s charge to abolish the death penalty

Released Friday, Sep. 16

 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ to attend Queen Elizabeth’s funeral
 Pope suppresses Populorum Progressio Foundation
 Comboni: Sexual abuse victims welcome apology from missionaries
 Interim leader discusses the Order of Malta’s 5-year renewal process
 West Virginia legislature passes abortion ban with few exceptions
 Mozambique bishop: ‘in order to stop jihadists, we must give young people a future’
 European Parliament condemns anti-Catholic repression in Nicaragua
 Central African Republic cardinal appeals for preservation of peace ‘at all costs’
 Myanmar’s soldiers used church as kitchen, laid land mines
 Vatican sought Xi-Pope meeting in Kazakhstan, China declined—source
 Pope, in press conference, says sending weapons to Ukraine can be morally acceptable
 Senate won’t vote on same-sex marriage bill until after election

Released Thursday, Sep. 15

 Bishop Schneider questions ‘supermarket of religions’
 Supreme Court declines Yeshiva bid to stay New York court order
 Pope lauds ‘decisive’ rejection of extremism and terror in inter-faith declaration
 Interfaith statement affirms tolerance and pluralism
 Faith is not ‘a fixed and timeless code,’ Pope tells Kazakh clergy
 King Charles III known as defender of persecuted Christians
 Feminist leader admits ‘we inflated the figures’ to get abortion legalized in Mexico
 New York poised to strengthen oversight of nonpublic schools
 Stop Azerbaijan’s aggression, Armenian church leader pleads
 In Pakistan, elderly Christian man subjected to slave labor and murdered
 Patriarch Kirill: attempts to build world order without relying on moral values led to fierce confrontation
 Chinese government spokeswoman praises Pope’s ‘friendship and good will’
 ‘How many must die?’: Pope blasts war, appeals for peace
 Ukrainian Catholic leader laments war’s ecological destruction

Released Wednesday, Sep. 14

 Holy See, Kazakhstan sign new diplomatic accord
 At Mass in Kazakhstan, Pope urges faithful to look toward Cross
 Russian prelate blames Vatican for cancellation of Pope-Patriarch summit
 Cardinal Hollerich questions Cardinal Zen’s perspective on China
 Pakistan’s high court cautions prosecutors on blasphemy charges
 After Ethiopian cardinal’s call for dialogue, Tigray forces agree to peace talks
 ‘Catholic health care’s wide reach can make it hard to get birth control in many places’
 Senator introduces bill to ban most abortions nationwide after 15 weeks
 Bomb threats force closure of 2 Catholic high schools in Canada
 Study offers projections of American religious landscape in 2070
 Archdiocese begins sainthood process for main developer of Cursillo
 Phoenix bishop establishes Catholic mental health ministry
 US bishops’ committee chairman calls for progress in nuclear disarmament
 ‘Harmonize with your past and present,’ Pope tells Kazakhstan’s civil authorities
 Pope in Kazakhstan: Religions ‘key to building world peace and understanding’

Released Tuesday, Sep. 13

 Pope: ‘always ready’ for visit to China
 Cuban bishops troubled by proposed ‘Family Code’
 Pope arrives in Kazakhstan
 New York case tests confidentiality of Vos Estis investigation
 Troops occupy, vandalize Catholic church in Myanmar
 Ukrainian bishops back UN reports of citizens deported to Russia
 Michigan Supreme Court says voters should decide abortion law
 Eritrean troops disrupt Mass, force teenagers in attendance to enter military
 Southern African bishops release synod synthesis
 Thousands protest planned gay pride gathering in Serbia
 Pope to entrepreneurs: ‘Share economic gains with philanthropy, fair taxation, job creation’
 ‘Education should always seek the truth,’ Pope tells Swiss students
 European bishops declare day of prayer for peace in Ukraine
 Cardinal Parolin ahead of Pope’s Kazakhstan visit: ‘War is never inevitable’
 Pope heads to Kazakh interfaith congress, without Russian Patriarch

Released Monday, Sep. 12

 Nigerian archbishop: insecurity breakdown is country’s ‘darkest chapter’
 Vatican, Beijing negotiating renewal of secret accord
 German Church leaders approve permanent Synod council
 Catholic colleges offer coed dorm rooming
 New papal message for 2023 World Youth Day
 Yeshiva University doesn’t have to recognize LGBTQ student group for now, Sotomayor rules
 Orthodox Church of Latvia secedes from Moscow
 ‘Share a living experience of the faith,’ Pope tells catechists
 Italian prelate to oversee Vatican’s diplomatic personnel
 Papal address to Pontifical Academy: ‘Science is a tool for peace’
 Pope seeks prayers for his ‘peace pilgrimage’ in Kazakhstan
 ‘God always searches for us when we are lost’: papal Sunday Angelus address
 Papal plane to avoid flight over Russia, Ukraine on journey to Kazakhstan
 Pope sends cardinal to Ukraine ‘to show my closeness’
 Ukrainian Catholic leader lauds soldiers’ heroism on 200th day of war

Released Friday, Sep. 9

 First public Mass in 10 years in Islamic-controlled Syria
 King Charles III wrote for Vatican newspaper on St. John Henry Newman
 Criminal case against McCarrick continued
 Judge tells archdiocese to stop payments to accused priests
 California court: doctors cannot be required to assist suicide
 German bishops fail to approve Synodal Way’s call to change Catholic teaching on sexual morality
 Cardinal Müller critiques Pontifical Academy for Life’s text on contraception
 Pope, in message to World Council of Churches, renews call for reconciliation among Christians
 Scotland should be ‘caring for people, not killing them,’ Church spokesman says
 Ecumenical monastery back in action, despite internal woes, problems in Ukraine
 Papal message for International Literacy Day
 Pope trusts Solesmes Congregation to make its own decisions about extraordinary form, abbot says
 Pope, prelates mourn death of Queen Elizabeth II
 ‘Abolish the death penalty in every state and every nation,’ prelate urges
 USCCB action alert: ‘Urge the US Dept. of Education to respect life and liberty in Title IX’

Released Thursday, Sep. 8

 Pope tells Vatican diplomats: world faces “third world war fought piecemeal”
 Missionary group denies charge of funding terrorists in Philippines
 Australia’s bishops unveil gender and identity guide for schools
 Inuit group heads to France to demand return of priest accused of sexual assault
 Vatican Library invites world’s scholars to read, contribute to new journal
 Holy See diplomat speaks out against nuclear tests
 Praying for ‘martyred Ukraine’, Pope urges halt to ‘world war’
 Vatican Secretary of State sees ‘major crisis of solidarity in our societies’
 Pope prays for all mothers ahead of Nativity of Virgin Mary
 Following riots, Iraq’s Christian-led political parties seek collaboration
 Chile’s bishops welcome peaceful vote on new constitution
 ‘Listen to the voice of creation,’ US bishops urge

Released Wednesday, Sep. 7

 Nun killed by terrorists in Mozambique
 Pope, at audience, offers St. Ignatius as model of discernment
 New British health secretary questioned for pro-life stand
 Prayers amid trauma: abuse survivors respond to Archbishop Weakland’s funeral
 17 accused Buffalo priests reinstated to ministry
 California assisted-suicide law violates free speech rights of objecting doctors, court rules
 Jesuits remain in Mexican mountains after priests’ killings
 Report: New Italian cardinal was central to Inzoli scandal
 South Sudan: bishop says there are no functioning schools in his diocese
 Kidnappings and murders: Nigerian bishop laments lack of security
 Vatican sends papal nuncio expelled by Nicaragua to Africa
 Irish bishop critiques national synod report

Released Tuesday, Sep. 6

 Public support for legal abortion in US growing, poll finds
 Kazakhstan archbishop sees papal visit as ‘great blessing’
 Chinese leader to visit Kazakhstan; possible meeting with Pope?
 Syriac Orthodox Church replaces archbishop, nine years after kidnapping
 Irish schoolteacher jailed; refused to use gender-neutral pronouns
 German archdiocese plans lay role in choice of new archbishop
 Ukrainian Orthodox archbishop brings flock into Catholic Church
 Bishops in Ethiopia “deeply saddened” by resumption of fighting in Tigray
 Bishops withdraw from Chad’s National Inclusive Dialogue, cite lack of ‘dialogue’
 Number of Catholic institutions with union representation grows
 Fresno’s bishop enters debate over Planned Parenthood funding by City Council
 Catholic group says insurgency in Mozambique still threatening civilians
 Cardinal Zenari: Let’s not allow Syria to become a ‘beggar-nation’
 Love is the most essential trait, Pope tells Caritas Spain
 Cardinal Nichols congratulates new prime minister and addresses cost of living crisis
 The Zanchetta affair (Part 4): a blockbuster article

Released Monday, Sep. 5

 Church of England chaplain disciplined for sermon on gender identity
 Human-rights group under fire for ‘propaganda against Pakistan’
 Ecumenical body defeats bid to expel Russian Orthodox
 US bishops urge Congress to protect rights of pregnant women at work
 Milan archbishop addresses cardinal snub with humor
 Women of Paraguay are the ‘most glorious in America,’ Pope says
 Ecumenical Patriarch criticizes Russian Orthodox ‘propaganda’
 Cardinal Parolin sees renewal of 2018 Vatican agreement with China
 Remembering Ukraine, Pope prays for world peace
 Sweeping papal overhaul of Order of Malta
 John Paul I, ‘Smiling Pope’ for a month, moves towards sainthood
 Pope asks, ‘Syria, who can heal you now?’
 Editors named for OSV News, Our Sunday Visitor
 Pope, in new interview, speaks on ‘zero tolerance,’ his health problems

Released Friday, Sep. 2

 Biden administration to cover abortion for veterans, regardless of state laws
 Cardinal Müller rejects ‘theocratic conception of the papacy’
 Cardinal Parolin fears escalation in Ukraine
 New Brazilian cardinal reiterates support for civil-union law
 Indian archbishop hospitalized after forced resignation
 Ecumenical Patriarch calls for restoration of ‘shattered image of creation’
 Swiss Guard to grow to 135 members
 Florida bars Medicaid funds for gender-transition surgeries
 Ukrainian bishop fears nuclear plant ‘disaster,’ says people preparing for ‘harsh winter’
 New Mexico governor pledges $10M for new abortion clinic
 Some Dutch churches to skip Mass due to energy costs, priest shortage
 ‘The nature of the family is under attack,’ Pope tell Schönstatt Fathers
 ‘Our sister, mother earth, weeps,’ Pope says at beginning of Season of Creation
 Discussing liturgy, Pope distinguishes ‘true tradition’ from ‘worldly restorationism’
 Pope Francis on death penalty: ‘Thou shalt not kill’ applies to the guilty as well as the innocent

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