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Stories for week of September 19, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Sep. 24

 Canadian archdiocese drops vaccine requirement for Mass
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 Catholic activist warns against limits on religious exemptions to vaccine
 Bishops in India’s Karntaka state oppose anti-conversion law
 Venezuelan Cardinal Urosa Savino, critic of Maduro regime, dead at 79
 Pope appoints delegate to govern Memores Domini movement
 Vatican gives German cardinal leave of absence after abuse investigation
 Cardinal Pell says he underestimated opposition to Vatican finance reform
 Pelosi responds to Archbishop Cordileone; he answers
 Nun describes her service in Afghanistan
 Cardinal Pell reflects on recent popes
 FBI warns of potential attacks on Portland parishes around Columbus Day
 In US, diocesan phase of Synod of Bishops concludes April 1
 40 Days for Life fall campaign to end abortion begins in over 1,000 cities
 Nevada bishops call for clemency hearing for death-row inmate
 Christians face ostracism in India’s Jharkhand state
 Reflect, rebuild, and see, Pope preaches to Europe’s bishops
 Texas bishop: Gov. Abbott is ‘undermining our religious obligation to help those in need’
 Vatican ‘foreign minister,’ at UN, decries racism, eugenics, persecution of religious believers

Released Thursday, Sep. 23

 US prelate warns of ‘trans’ seminary candidates
 Armenian Catholic Patriarch elected
 UK court rejects Down-syndrome advocate’s challenge to abortion law
 Cardinal Kasper repeats worries over German ‘Synodal Path’
 Catholic leaders urge humane treatment for Haitian migrants as numbers grow
 Council of Cardinals meets with Pope to discuss next Synod of Bishops
 +Bishop John McCormack, 86
 Catholics in Africa celebrate Congo Basin, call to fight climate change
 Group fights anti-Catholic bigotry in Scotland
 It is a sin to refuse Covid vaccine, Indonesian archbishop preaches
 8 elderly nuns in Manila succumb to Covid; outbreak hits seminary
 Vatican diplomat calls for universal access to clean water
 US House committee approves radical abortion bill
 Pope receives Paralympic, Olympic athletes
 Poland’s bishops were slow to confront abuse scandal, Church officials write
 Afghan Christian refugees meet with Pope

Released Wednesday, Sep. 22

 At weekly audience, Pope recaps trip to Hungary, Slovakia
 Sunni, Shi’ite leaders to meet in Iraq?
 President of Catholic University of America announces retirement
 Mexico’s top court rejects conscience-protection clause in health law
 Pope: In the Cross, God’s mercy embraces every aspect of humanity
 Vatican instructs Heralds of the Gospel to close its boarding schools
 Smaller Catholic colleges thrive as national enrollments take a hit
 ‘Build a Church that goes to the peripheries,’ Cardinal Czerny tells group of US bishops
 Bishop pens ‘accessible and comprehensive history’ of the sexual revolution
 Do not compromise doctrinal truths, nuncio tells German bishops
 +Bishop Anthony Pilla, 88
 Indian cardinal defuses tensions following bishop’s remarks on jihad
 After outcry, Catholic school renews job offer to lesbian coach
 Fire damages historic Catholic church in Ukraine
 Iraqi archbishop concerned about end of US combat mission

Released Tuesday, Sep. 21

 Pope rips EWTN ‘work of the devil’
 German bishops’ leader defends Pope’s decision not to accept resignation
 Armenian Catholic Synod gathers in Rome to elect new Patriarch
 Massachusetts bishop: priests should support vax-exemption requests
 India: Kerala’s state government announces probe against cardinal
 Catholic Charities in Texas struggles in face of immigration ‘madness’
 US bishops decry abortion funding in ‘Build Back Better Act’
 Cardinal O’Malley calls on Central, Eastern European bishops to undergo ‘pastoral conversion’ on sexual abuse
 Canadian bishops issue election statement
 Prelate offers overview of Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization
 Group protests on behalf of lesbian coach after Catholic school job offer rescinded
 Syriac Catholic bishops cite challenges to Christians in Middle East
 Russian Orthodox leaders attack ‘neo-papism’ of Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
 Madhya Pradesh authorities intimidate Pentecostals
 Afghan Christians practice faith in absolute secrecy, migrant recounts

Released Monday, Sep. 20

 Tigray bishop pleads for release of humanitarian aid
 Taliban victory will cause problems for Pakistan’s Christians, Paul Bhatti predicts
 Blood of St. Januarius liquefies; miracle reassures Naples
 South African archbishop sees pagan cults as obstacle
 Notre Dame structurally stable; reconstruction can begin
 Vatican to require Covid vaccine ‘passport’
 Mozambique bishop: ‘Nobody asks for martyrdom, but is is something that can happen at any moment’
 Catholic hospitals urge South Australia’s government to mandate Covid vaccine for health workers
 Manila cardinal contracts Covid
 Assembly, the first of its kind, to address future of Church in Latin America
 New Belarusian archbishop appointed as conflict with government continues
 Pope Francis: Synodality is not about fashion, it is the Church of the Acts of the Apostles
 Admit failings on abuse and put victims first: papal message to bishops of Central and Eastern Europe
 Canadian archbishop: Only fully vaccinated can attend Mass
 Pope Francis recalls Marian apparition of La Salette
 Papal prayer for detainees, Mexican flood victims
 Act like Jesus by giving primacy to service, Pope tells pilgrims

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