Stories for week of December 29, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jan. 3

 Beatification cause for Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi advances
 Pope appoints administrator for troubled Ivory Coast diocese
 Biden awards Citizens Medals to pro-abortion, pro-gay activists
 Vatican envoy in Syria cautiously optimistic
 Adoration and charitable work go together, Pope tells Knights of Malta
 Irish archbishop rips ‘disproportionate’ Israeli offensive
 Jerusalem Patriarch: Prospects for peace are bleak, apart from Christ
 Remain standing after the Agnus Dei, West Virginia bishop declares
 Mary is world’s hope, cardinal says at holy door opening
 Sant’Egidio founder, Pontiff discuss humanitarian corridors for migrants
 Pope laments lack of education for 250 million children
 San Antonio archbishop rips ‘tyrant’ Trump, links Trump’s words to violent ‘tragedies’

Released Thursday, Jan. 2

 Church leaders urge Indian government action on anti-Christian violence
 Holy Door opened at St. Mary Major
 Catholic priest murdered in Nigeria
 Orthodox Patriarch looks toward 2025 Nicea anniversary, ecumenical highlight
 Belarus: Catholic priest convicted of treason
 Papal sympathy after New Orleans terror attack
 Cardinal Amato dies at 86; Pope calls him ‘good and vigilant servant’
 Renewed papal appeal for prayer for peace
 Papal plea for forgiveness of debts incurred by poorest nations
 The shepherds saw the infant Jesus, but did not see Mary’s heart, Pope tells pilgrims
 Entrust the new year to Mary, Pope preaches at January 1 Mass
 Pope gives thanks for Rome’s Jubilee preparations, preaches that Christ is the hope of a fraternal world
 January papal prayer intention: for the right to an education

Released Wednesday, Jan. 1

 Background: World Day of Peace 2025

Released Tuesday, Dec. 31

 Top CWN headlines for 2024 in review
 Vatican releases Pope’s prayer intentions for 2025
 McCarrick criminal trial suspended—forever
 A challenge for Cardinal Gregory
 Sri Lankan cardinal mandates male-only altar servers in his archdiocese
 Priest in India summoned to court for ‘pulpit abuse’
 Indian missionary priests attacked in Ghana
 White House releases strategy to counter Islamophobia, anti-Arab hate
 Franciscan friar in Syria reports precautions, ‘without any fear,’ at Christmas Masses
 USCCB president pays tribute to President Carter’s work on behalf of peace
 Vatican Mass for 2nd anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s death

Released Monday, Dec. 30

 Massive crowds fill Notre Dame after reopening
 Vatican official explains Jubilee indulgences
 Cardinal-vicar opens Holy Door at St. John Lateran basilica
 Pope sends condolences on death of Jimmy Carter
 13 Catholic missionaries killed in 2024
 Canadian group that pushed for euthanasia now warns of abuses
 Link between Sol Invictus, Christmas Day is ‘modern myth,’ scholar writes in Vatican newspaper
 Holy Land bishops, in Jubilee message, pray for ‘the ability to hope again’
 Papal prayer for suffering children on Feast of Holy Innocents
 In BBC radio message, Pope Francis pays tribute to Chesterton
 ‘Proclaim the good news of God’s love today’: papal encouragement for Taizé youth meeting
 Papal prayer for South Korean aviation disaster victims, families in war-torn areas
 Pope says family, cell of society, is a ‘precious treasure’ that deserves support and protection
 The Holy Family teaches us the importance of listening, Pope tells pilgrims

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