Stories for week of July 15, 2018

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Thursday, Jul. 19

 $63,000 cash found in home of priest charged with embezzlement
 Canonizations fixed for October 14
 Australian prime minister calls for removal of convicted archbishop
 Chilean abuse prosecutor investigating cardinals
 Ireland: pastor removed for telling pro-abortion voters to confess?
 Scotland: Catholic university chaplain removed after protesting Gay Pride
 OAS condemns Nicaraguan regime
 Cardinal renews consecration of Lebanon, Middle East to Immaculate Heart of Mary
 Vatican media will not abandon countries with scant internet access, new prefect says
 Venezuela’s bishops decry Maduro regime’s authoritarianism, abuse of power
 USCCB approves $1.4M in grants to Church in Africa
 Cardinal Tagle: ‘Prepare to be attacked because we are for Christ’
 Russian Orthodox patriarch: ‘tempations coming from abroad’ led to assassination of Czar Nicholas II
 Study: as Catholic options dwindle, middle class retreats from private schools
 Cardinal Marx criticizes Merkel’s allies over immigration policy
 Priest criticizes tougher Italian policies on migrants, refugees
 EU bishops’ commission calls for stricter measures to protect children from online pornography
 1.5 million Venezuelans have left nation in past year
 Borders pose challenge for Church in Amazon basin
 California bishop deplores administration’s immigration policies as ‘unconscionable’
 Nicaraguan forces storm barrio, destroy churches; ‘it is a genocide,’ says priest
 Pope’s representative in Nicaragua appeals for peace

Released Wednesday, Jul. 18

 Vatican authors critique American ‘Prosperity Gospel’
 Cardinal Coccopalmerio: canon law should include environmental norms
 Chinese authorities raze Catholic church, claiming zoning violations
 Judge rules Catholic agency must include same-sex couples in foster care
 Quebec cardinal calls for renewed evangelization of Canada
 100,000 mark 100th anniversary of murder of last Russian czar
 Central African bishops distance themselves from group promising to avenge murdered priests
 Caritas official: Greeks are suffering under increasing economic strains
 Church in Germany allocated $700M to social and pastoral projects worldwide in 2017
 Religion scholars aid Fordham theology student arrested protesting a white supremacist
 Dozens killed in Boko Haram attack on Nigerian military base
 Texas bishops score major religious liberty victory in fetal remains case
 Florida bishop pays tribute to Humanae Vitae
 Tennessee’s bishops urge governor to halt executions
 Nicaragua’s bishops to pray for exorcism amid Ortega crackdown
 UN chief renews criticism of government repression in Nicaragua
 Russian Orthodox leaders issue message for 1030th anniversary of baptism of Kievan Rus’
 Thailand cave rescue draws attention to small but thriving Catholic population
 USCCB grants $4.9M to 209 projects in ex-Communist nations
 European bishops’ conferences seek to sway Catholics’ views on migrants

Released Tuesday, Jul. 17

 Confessional seal not a matter of human rights, says Australian official
 Catholicism is ‘foreign’ to young Irish, Dublin’s archbishop fears
 Lebanese Muslim leader: Middle East loses when Christians leave
 Sri Lankan cardinal would support death penalty for drug dealers
 Mother Teresa’s successor: baby-sale charges based on ‘false news’
 India orders inspection of all orphanages run by Missionaries of Charity
 Australian bishops ‘affirm and celebrate’ lay pastoral ministry
 Bosnian bishops: lawmakers should consider common good, rather than focus on ethnic majority
 Provincial says Carmelite nuns in Aleppo live in ‘heroic situation’
 In North Korea, despite hostile regime, the faith clings to life
 Denver archbishop: efforts against religious freedom punish the poor and needy
 Is Hungary experiencing a policy-induced baby boom?
 Eritrea’s Eastern-rite church calls for prayers for peace with Ethiopia
 House panel moves to protect ‘religious conviction’ of adoption agencies
 Anchor your social apostolate in evangelization, Vatican prelate tells East African bishops
 British study examines character education in Catholic schools
 Rebuilding with US funds, Iraq’s minority religious communities still await security
 Catholic Charities storefront center in Texas stands in eye of border ‘storm’
 Catholic Action president calls for renewed commitment to internationalism
 Ukraine’s president renews call for autocephalous status for Orthodox church
 Youth long for mystery and liturgy, need tradition and history, Chicago auxiliary says
 Nicaraguan bishop attacked at police checkpoint

Released Monday, Jul. 16

 Pope planning major announcements for Thursday consistory?
 New York Times recounts Cardinal McCarrick’s years of abuse
 Rwanda closes 700 churches under new government guidelines
 Renewal is top priority, Vatican official tells African bishops
 Pope surprises couple by presiding at wedding
 Pope names cardinals to preside at Synod assembly
 Russian Orthodox leaders meet at site of last czar’s execution
 ‘Look to your roots,’ Pope tells Caribbean youth
 Despite Trump’s Kavanaugh nomination, overturning Roe remains difficult, pro-life analysts caution
 For Gaza’s parish priest, ‘people are desperate,’ but ‘we continue to hope for peace’
 Bahrain’s cathedral to become the heart of the Catholic community in Arabia
 Maltese bishop criticizes European nations for ‘criminal’ attitude toward migrants
 Vatican Secretary of State: wars can be avoided if we make room for God
 Holy See nurtures high hopes for global migration compact
 USCCB lends support to Catholic Charities agencies reuniting families
 New Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue statement hailed as ‘substantive step forward’
 Courage honors its founder, Father John Harvey
 Pope Francis greets religious gathered for Angelus
 Pope Francis: all the baptized are called to be missionary disciples
 Pro-Ortega militias in Nicaragua besiege another Catholic church, kill 2 students
 CRS lauds Congress’ rejection of administration’s proposed cuts to foreign aid

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