Stories for week of May 20, 2018

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, May. 25

 Family is center of society, Pope reminds Rome’s police
 Peru Church takes special collection for refugees from Venezuela
 Pope confirms: seminaries should exclude homosexuals
 Pope dedicates weekday Mass to the ‘noble Chinese people’
 ‘Choose life for mothers and babies,’ Archbishop Martin pleads
 Irish PM renews call to repeal pro-life constitutional amendment
 Nigerian bishop says there is ‘plan to Islamicize the Christian areas’
 Resignations and appointments (5/24)
 Papal audiences (5/24)
 Bishop criticizes UK Government for spending billions renewing Trident nuclear submarine
 Nicaragua cardinal says talks at impasse, suspended indefinitely
 Everyone must have affordable health care, Vatican diplomat says
 G7 nations reject Venezuelan election result
 Prominent defector discusses North Korea’s relationship with religion
 Punggye-ri nuclear site destroyed in North Korea

Released Thursday, May. 24

 Providence College official puts restraining order on graduate who defended marriage
 Pope: ‘foolish lie’ to connect Islam with terrorism
 Honduran diplomat’s wife reports Cardinal Maradiaga led her into financial scam
 Heading for Korea, new papal nuncio hopes for North-South reconciliation
 Indian cabinet minister responds to Delhi archbishop: minorities are not discriminated against
 Russian and Vatican historians hold new seminar on ‘The Mission of peace and Ostpolitik’
 Protestant churches in Algeria call on government to treat them fairly
 Bishop declares: ‘The dirty game in Nicaragua is over!’
 Catholic, Protestant leaders mark anniversary of Northern Ireland’s Good Friday agreement
 Pope Francis grants indulgences for World Meeting of Families
 Benedictine monastery celebrates 1000 years
 Report: Pope concerned that Chilean bishops may have entrusted seminaries to ‘priests suspected of active homosexuality’
 Organization calls for Church role to protect human rights of Venezuelan detainees
 Venezuela’s Maduro expels US diplomats; EU ponders new sanctions
 Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church begins ‘missionary decade’
 Serbian Orthodox patriarch says Eastern Catholics are ‘tearing apart the robe of Christ’
 Persecution of Church in China continues despite talk of a thaw
 Resignations and appointments (5/24)

Released Wednesday, May. 23

 Vatican bank reports profits down, focus on ethics
 Archbishop Chaput: German intercommunion proposal threatens Church unity
 Cardinal Brandmüller: calls for women’s ordination are heretical
 English bishops complain of anti-Catholicism at BBC
 Indian cardinal will not face charges in controversial real-state transfer
 Bomb scare near Vatican during papal audience
 Pope prays for China, Ukraine
 Pope begins series of weekly audiences devoted to Confirmation
 Catholics protest land grab for Vietnam project
 Australian archbishop steps down following conviction for concealing abuse
 Spanish bishops speak out against euthanasia legislation
 Resignations and appointments (5/22)
 ‘Become bold witnesses of God’s love in a wounded world,’ Pope tells confirmandi
 Juan Carlos Cruz: Pope Francis’ words about gay Catholics are a model of welcome
 Pope to meet more survivors of Chile’s most infamous abuser priest
 CCD grants $47K to Biblical literacy projects
 Syrian army, police celebrate recapturing all of Damascus
 Mark Zuckerberg testifies before European Parliament
 Washington announces toughest sanctions in history against Iran
 Report: Pope toned down recent comments on Venezuela
 Venezuelan bishops demand justice for tortured prisoners

Released Tuesday, May. 22

 Australian archbishop convicted of concealing abuse
 Beijing house churches investigated, shut down
 Russian religious leaders lament terrorist attack on Orthodox church
 Child immigrants should not be separated from parents, USCCB initiative states in action alert
 Vatican diplomat: those who commit genocide, war crimes must be held accountable
 Pope urges frank discussion of Italian vocations crisis
 Papal audiences (5/21)
 12 bishops, priests, religious declared venerable
 LGBT community cheers Pope’s reported ‘God made you like this’ remark
 Italian prelate endorses American Jesuit’s ‘new pastoral attitude toward LGBT Catholics’
 Chaldean patriarch sees appointment as cardinal as sign of Pope’s closeness to Iraqi Christians
 Muslims join Catholics in welcoming appointment of new Pakistani cardinal
 Cardinal Dolan welcomes Trump administration’s separation of abortion from Title X funding
 Prelates applaud Kansas, Oklahoma for protecting religious liberty of foster-care, adoption providers
 US Treasury Secretary says trade war is ‘on hold’ after progress in US-China talks
 Re-elected, Venezuela’s Maduro faces global criticism, US sanctions

Released Monday, May. 21

 German bishop says dioceses might set different policies on intercommunion
 Former Irish president recalls proposal for all that country’s bishops to resign
 Chilean bishop suspends 20% of his priests for involvement in child-abuse network
 Church is always feminine, Pope says on feast of Mary, Mother of the Church
 Texas bishop endorses alternative to Boy Scouts
 Curia leaders meeting with Pope
 Chilean abuse victim: Pope said I should be happy as a homosexual
 Orthodox church attacked in Grozny; ISIS claims responsibility
 10 killed as Christian college attacked in South Sudan
 Texas cardinal laments school shooting
 US prelate: ‘violence is not the answer’ in conflict between Israelis, Palestianians
 Vatican diplomat urges peace in Middle East through dialogue, encounter
 ‘Don’t waste time being a busybody,’ Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 The Holy Spirit changes hearts and situations, Pope says in Pentecost homily
 Pope appeals for peace in the Middle East and Venezuela
 Christian holiness began at Pentecost, Pope tells pilgrims
 Pope announces names of 14 new cardinals
 Papal telegram following Cuban airplane crash
 ‘Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all’ is theme of Pope’s Missionary Day message
 Resignations and appointments (5/19)
 Papal audiences (5/19)
 Paul VI, Archbishop Romero to be canonized in October
 Benin’s president meets with Pope, Vatican officials
 Resignations and appointments (5/18)
 Papal audiences (5/18)

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