Stories for week of May 31, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

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

Released Monday, Jun. 1

 Pope set new Vatican purchasing rules to cut corruption
 Swiss authorities freeze account linked to Vatican investments
 Feminist French theologian ‘applies’ for position as Archbishop of Lyon
 Polish priests decline to back bishop accused of cover-up
 Erdogan schedules Islamic prayer at Hagia Sophia
 Cardinal Nichols questions UK’s continued closing of churches
 Amid riots, Minneapolis basilica damaged by fire
 ‘The world sees conservatives and progressives, the Spirit sees children of God,’ Pope preaches on Pentecost
 Papal message broadcast during Anglican ecumencial Pentecost service
 Witness to Jesus and address ‘pandemic of poverty,’ Pope tells Catholics in charismatic renewal
 ‘Gathered together in prayer with Mary’: papal Rosary simulcast at 50 Marian shrines
 Be surprised by the Risen Christ: in lieu of Chrism Mass, Pope writes letter to Rome’s priests
 Venezuela close to ‘economic collapse of great proportion,’ bishops warn
 US Supreme Court, 5-4, refuses to halt California’s limits on worship services
 Bannon-linked group wins 1st major legal battle for medieval monastery; Italy retaliates with criminal prosecution
 US bishops deplore killing of George Floyd, criticize looting
 June papal prayer intention: compassion for the world

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