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Catholic Culture Trusted Commentary

Stories for week of January 03, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jan. 8

 Pope offers sympathy for Venezuelan suffering
 Coptic leader: Christians not persecuted in Egypt
 Vatican charge: Italian financier pressed sale of misappropriated bonds
 Belgian Franciscan named archbishop in Iran
 Swiss Cardinal Schwery dead at 88
 London’s mayor wants churches closed
 Pakistani pastor arrested on blasphemy charges
 Cardinal Dolan: The radicals who defaced St. Patrick’s Cathedral are pure bigots
 Bishops mark 125th anniversary of Ivory Coast’s evangelization
 Minnesota loosens Covid restrictions on public worship
 Retirement of Mexican bishop seen as ‘end of an era’
 Editor of Italian bishops’ newspaper: President Trump has ‘poisoned the wells of democracy’
 Vatican newspaper headline: ‘Washington: Democracy Wounded’
 Australian prelate ‘shaken and disbelieving’
 Pelosi cites Epiphany, St. Francis as House confirms Biden win
 US toughens ban on ‘abhorrent’ female genital mutilation
 Today the Church is triumphant, Russian Orthodox Patriarch says in Christmas message
 Pope sends Christmas greetings to Eastern Christians, praises Poland’s Three Kings parades
 Mainline Protestant, Southern Baptist, Jewish leaders deplore Capitol violence
 Brazil’s bishops urge faithful to receive Covid vaccine, promote vaccination as a right for all

Released Thursday, Jan. 7

 Australian officials investigating Vatican financial transfers
 Church welcomes bid to protect Pakistan’s religious minorities
 Islamic extremist group attacks parish in southern Philippines
 Priest’s ‘Bible in a Year’ is no. 1 podcast on Apple chart
 Cardinal Gregory, Sen.-elect Warnock have history of collaboration
 Deacon attacked in New York City subway
 Egypt to develop ‘Way of the Holy Family’ for pilgrims, tourists
 Iraqi Shiite political leader seeks return of property to Christian owners
 Pandemic has heightened dangers to international religious freedom
 Anglican primate: ‘Let us pray for the USA’
 Brooklyn bishop laments ‘unprecedented day of national chaos’
 Archbishop Cordileone: We do not need ‘an attempted civil war’
 Archbishop Lori: ‘Our hearts are heavy’ on ‘this terrible day’
 ‘We should feel violated,’ DC Cardinal Gregory says of Capitol violence
 Cardinal Cupich: DC events ‘should shock the conscience’ of ‘any faithful Catholic’
 US bishops’ president condemns violent protests, prays for public safety, restoration of order
 May the Savior bless every family and wipe away every tear, Ukrainian Catholic leader says in Christmas message
 Papal appeal for peace in Central African Republic

Released Wednesday, Jan. 6

 Christ is the star that guides the Magi, Pope says
 Pope tells faithful: make more time for worship
 Polish parliament honors Cardinal Wyszynski
 Tucson diocese: no indoor Mass for a month
 Germany: Catholic officials ask reporters for ‘silence’ on child abuse report
 Judge dismisses 12 Covington Catholic students’ defamation suit against media outlets
 Chicago activist priest removed from parish for decades-old abuse allegation
 Uganda’s bishops caution police on election
 Federal appeals court: County Covid order closing all high schools infringes parochial schools’ rights
 Bishops in Dominican Republic deplore violence against women
 Central African Republic: regional capital now a ghost town, bishop reports
 French archbishop, others protest proposed law against religious extremism
 Mass to be celebrated at West Bank baptismal site for first time since 1954
 National Prayer Vigil for Life to take place virtually
 Video released for January papal prayer intention
 Vatican, Lutheran body recall 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s excommunication
 Leading Korean prelate links pandemic, ecological damage

Released Tuesday, Jan. 5

 Pope cancels traditional Baptism ceremonies in Sistine Chapel
 Canadian man faces ‘hate crime’ charge after disrupting Mass
 Lebanese cardinal prods politicians to form government
 Catholic journalists inaugurate news site
 Australian bishops puzzled by Vatican money transfers
 Scotland’s bishops question closing of churches
 Iceland’s bishop protests tight limits on Mass congregations
 Report: Police stop Masses at Iceland’s cathedral for violating lockdown rules
 California woman pleads guilty to hate crime for threatening to bomb Catholic prep school
 North Dakota attorney general concludes investigation of state’s dioceses
 Pastor dead, 2 hurt in shooting at Texas church
 Do not ‘repress the right to mobility of migrants,’ bishop urges Mexican government
 2020 showed ‘the face of a Samaritan Church,’ leading Latin American prelate says
 Central African Republic bishop calls for prayer as regional capital falls to rebels
 New US Congress is nearly 30% Catholic
 73 infected with Covid at Sisters of St. Joseph’s provincial house
 Soccer legend was a poet on the field, Pope says in interview
 As Jesuit chaplain retires, House of Representatives picks first female chaplain
 Church in Philippines condemns killings of 9 indigenous leaders
 USCCB grants $1.5M for Puerto Rico recovery

Released Monday, Jan. 4

 Iraqi Shi’ite leader pushes for restoration of Christians’ property
 Ukrainian Catholic leader says 2020 taught lessons
 Hate crime committed at Catholic church in Edmonton: police
 Benedict XVI remains very alert mentally, Archbishop Gänswein says
 Catholics in India protest continued detention of elderly priest
 Archbishop-elect of Dublin prepares for major reorganization
 Connecticut bishop tests positive for Covid
 Cardinal Gregory laments abortion, death penalty
 Pandemic prompts acts of compassion: papal reflection on 2020
 Pope Francis entrusts 2021 to Mary’s heavenly protection
 To bless, to be born, to find: papal homily for New Year’s Mass
 Kidnapped Nigerian bishop released
 Vatican releases footage of 1968 papal New Year’s Mass at children’s hospital
 Vatican’s Covid vaccinations to begin soon
 Latin Patriarch calls on Church in Jerusalem to overcome clericalism, divisions
 Pope chides those traveling abroad to escape Covid lockdowns
 Welcome the Word made flesh, who ‘knocks on the door of our hearts,’ Pope says in Angelus address
 Prelate blocked for months by Belarus resigns Minsk post
 January papal prayer intention: human fraternity

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