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Stories for week of January 15, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Saturday, Jan. 21

 Background: Sunday of the Word of God

Released Friday, Jan. 20

 Pope: no fears about trip to war-torn African countries
 FBI offering rewards for information about attacks on pregnancy-help centers
 Most Americans support abortion restrictions, poll shows
 Catechist kidnapped from Nigerian parish
 Paraguay’s president meets with Pontiff
 Pope encourages religious in social work ‘with the weapons of charity’
 Pope asks Curia to make ‘personal’ Lenten retreats
 Pope encourages those planning on attending World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon
 Iowa diocese issues pastoral guidance on gender dysphoria ‘that begins with love’
 Pediatricians’ group release position paper outlining medical risks of chemical abortion
 Title IX religious exemption survives constitutional challenge
 School reform in Bolivia: bishops express concern
 Bishops: ‘Beware of land grabbing: Central Africans are in danger of becoming foreigners in their own country’
 Swiss bishops warn Catholics that only priests can preside over the Mass
 March for Life president: Overturning of Roe v. Wade ‘is not the end of our fight’
 Apostolic visitation: bishops scrutinize Knoxville diocese amid sex abuse lawsuits
 Ukrainian Catholic leader: Pope actively works for release of Ukrainian POWs
 Pope Francis lauds US Catholics’ pro-life witness, blesses March for Life participants
 ‘Jordan is integral to the Holy Land,’ 12 visiting bishops emphasize

Released Thursday, Jan. 19

 Vatican decrees move six candidates closer to beatification
 Pope lauds Cambodian Buddhists for ‘ecological conversion’
 Cardinal Schönborn encouraged Pope Benedict to accept election
 British man fined for praying near abortion clinic
 Ukraine as a focus during Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
 After 5 years, Pope names archbishop for Venezuela’s capital
 Report: Christian persecution at its highest point in 30 years
 Pope calls missile attack on Ukraine apartment building heartbreaking
 Thousands gather at site of Jesus’ baptism in Jordan for special Mass
 Sainthood cause of former FOCUS missionary prompts flood of prayer requests
 Vatican offers plenary indulgence to National March for Life participants
 How steep is Poland’s drop in Mass attendance?
 South Carolina Supreme Court invalidates fetal heartbeat abortion ban
 Novena for life, national prayer vigil for life begin January 19
 Cardinal Parolin: ‘Choosing the Mafia is choosing slavery’
 Researchers discover written records of biblical King David

Released Wednesday, Jan. 18

 Myanmar: army burns church, convent, homes in alleged rebel village
 Nigerian priest released after January 14 kidnapping
 Evangelization starts with intimacy with Jesus, Pope tells audience
 US abortion statistics show decline
 Pope says priests must never deny absolution
 Church of England bishops balk at same-sex marriage
 Nicaraguan priest found guilty of conspiring against state
 Pope laments attack on Pentecostal church in DR Congo
 Italy’s decree against migrant rescue ship should be scrapped, bishop says
 McCarrick’s lawyers say he’s not competent to stand trial
 A historic meeting of Orthodox Christian scholars convenes to confront divisions and war
 Man who set Spokane Catholic school ablaze sentenced to 5 years
 DDF consigns Msgr. Tony Anatrella, priest-psychotherapist and former Vatican consultor, to life of prayer
 The world’s oldest person, a French nun, dies at 118
 USCCB migration chairman expresses opposition to Border Safety and Security Act
 West Coast rallies, marches ‘reinvigorate’ people about pro-life issues
 Pope Francis recalls 25th anniversary of JPII’s visit to Cuba

Released Tuesday, Jan. 17

 China’s population drops—with further decline in sight
 Cardinal Zen worried by Synod’s focus
 Dramatic charges, counter-charges at Vatican finance trial
 Pope to children: God gazes at us with eyes of love
 Islamist militants kidnap at least 50 women in Burkina Faso
 Bishop urges South Sudanese to ‘take advantage of papal visit to be reconciled’
 Papal condolences following plane crash in Nepal
 Friends and family pay their respects to Cardinal Pell
 Analysis: Pope Francis centralizes authority with reform of Diocese of Rome
 Priest abducted in Nigeria’s Ekiti State
 US Catholic-Lutheran dialogue participants discuss holy orders, ministry
 Faith is a call to service and mission, Pope tells US seminarians
 New Zealand bishops publish response to Synod’s continental stage document
 Syro-Malabar synod fails to resolve violent row over the Mass
 The story of the March for Life
 Background: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Released Monday, Jan. 16

 Cardinals in 1986 recommended lifting restrictions on traditional liturgy
 Terror bombing kills 10, injures dozens in Congo
 Scottish bishops warn that ban on ‘conversion therapy’ would criminalize religious care
 Pope defines goals of missionary spirit
 Pope contrasts health care with throwaway culture
 Los Angeles Catholic school enrollment grows after huge dip
 French Catholic church heavily vandalized, paintings and statues wrecked
 Attacks on 3 Catholic churches in New Jersey investigated as hate crime
 US religious-freedom commission chairman criticizes Vatican-China pact
 ‘A man of the Church’: The funeral Mass of Cardinal George Pell
 Woman accusing Cardinal Ouellet of sexual misconduct reveals her identity
 Canadian publisher Pearson pulls Catholic textbooks after LGBT criticism
 Pope at Angelus: Be free from attachments, make way for the Lord
 Priest describes ‘pandemonium’ after 6 shot after funeral Mass at London Catholic church
 Synod of Syro-Malabar Church reiterates its stand on unified Mass
 Priest burned to death in Nigeria
 Pope announces ecumenical prayer vigil on eve of October Synod
 Ukrainian Catholic leader reports massive Russian missile barrage
 Jewish, Muslim representatives sign Pontifical Academy for Life’s ‘Rome Call for AI Ethics’
 USCCB president’s statement in observance of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2023

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