Stories for week of January 28, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Feb. 2

 Caritas Jordan director raps defunding of UNRWA
 Invite guests to the Eucharistic banquet, Pope write in World Mission Day message
 Priests, laity appeal for withdrawal of Fiducia Supplicans
 Catholic, Anglican bishops pledge work for unity
 Argentine bishops decline government payments for clergy
 Hong Kong diocese is suppressing information about persecution of Church, report charges
 Missing Panamanian cardinal found after unexplained disappearance
 FBI deleted records on anti-Catholic memo, senators charge
 Canadian government pauses plan for euthanasia for the mentally ill
 USCCB action alert on child protection online
 Collective action needed to prevent human trafficking, says US bishops’ migration chairman
 São Tomé and Príncipe’s prime minister meets with Pontiff
 Former CDF official critiques Fiducia Supplicans

Released Thursday, Feb. 1

 Discipline of Archbishop Nienstedt raises questions about Vos Estis
 Panamanian cardinal disappears; no explanation yet
 Spanish layman named to #2 post at Secretariat for Economy
 Turkish church reconsecrated after terrorist killings
 Shrinking German archdiocese faces budget shortfall
 Develop students heads and hearts, Pope tells Notre Dame trustees
 English bishop’s ordination on hold
 Pope’s Lenten message: focus on ‘integral ecology’
 Taiwan’s president shares Pope’s AI concerns
 Suspect arrested in killing of Spanish priest
 Utah bishop urges faithful to lobby lawmakers on seal of Confession
 Man shoots at San Francisco parish; arrest made
 Record $10M settlement reached in California abuse case
 Cardinal Lacroix again denies allegations of sexual assault
 6 USCCB committee chairmen renew budget requests in letter to members of Congress
 Background: World Day for Consecrated Life

Released Wednesday, Jan. 31

 Vatican office defines ‘vulnerable adult’ for abuse cases
 China: third new bishop installed in a week
 Christian population disappearing from Iraqi city
 Vatican News begins Mongolian-language service
 Pro-lifers face lengthy prison terms in Tennessee case
 APSA head named archbishop
 Nigerian cardinal fears country ‘unsafe for everyone’
 Pope, at general audience, reflects on wrath
 Vatican holds first-of-its-kind mental health conference
 Leading African cardinal says Fiducia has discredited Synod on synodality
 Archbishop Scicluna renews call for reconsideration of discipline of priestly celibacy
 Michigan bishop bars 2 priests from public ministry following AG’s report
 Belgium’s bishops have repeatedly asked Vatican to laicize abusive bishop
 Canadian bishops’ president responds to sexual assault allegations against Cardinal Lacroix
 Archbishop Paglia: The Church is not against AI

Released Tuesday, Jan. 30

 Central African bishops plead for peace in Democratic Republic of Congo
 Pakistani Christians forced to accept Islam under torture
 Argentine President Milei to meet with Pope
 European bishops not united on Fiducia Supplicans, conference leader reports
 Pope’s monthly prayer intention: for the terminally ill
 Vatican ratifies diplomatic pact with Sao Tome
 French lawmakers take up proposal to enshrine abortion rights
 Catholic University terminates professor who invited ‘abortion doula’
 DC archdiocese: Latin Mass in Capital was not authorized
 France’s bishops back farmers in their massive protest
 Papua New Guinea announces papal visit; Vatican counters visit is ‘under study’
 Catholic physicians discuss efforts against transgender ideology
 Researcher ponders demographic winter in Finland
 Retired priest among victims in Florida shooting spree
 Jerusalem cardinal urges ceasefire in Gaza, 2-state solution
 USCCB updates position papers on expedited removal, rapid expulsions at US-Mexican border
 Guinea-Bissau’s president meets with Pontiff
 Proximity, heart, responsibility: Pope encourages Italian bishops’ TV, radio networks

Released Monday, Jan. 29

 DDF regaining role as top Vatican office?
 Sport is dialogue, Pope tells Spanish tennis club
 Pope downplays opposition to Fiducia Supplicans
 Pope creates new Chinese diocese; bishop installed
 Church attacked in Istanbul during Mass; 1 dead
 ‘Wars destroy people and are defeat for humanity’: renewed papal plea for peace
 Christ came to free us from the chains Satan uses to shackle us, Pope tells pilgrims
 Central African Republic’s president meets with Pontiff
 Prayer, witness, charity: Pope upholds Blessed Carlo Acutis as example for confirmands
 Never forget the Rwandan genocide, Pope tells Italian charity
 The Knights of Malta are subject to the Holy See, Pope emphasizes
 UN migration leader lauds papal commitment to migrants
 Leading human rights official, Pontiff discuss conflicts, AI
 ‘Prayer is what gives meaning to the apostolate,’ Pope tells his worldwide prayer network

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Today, the mid-point of Lent, was celebrated with somewhat joyful spirit in ancient times. This day was a breathing space in the center of Lent’s austerities. Today’s ancient Entrance Antiphon and Opening Prayer express this encouraging spirit. Modern Lent is less austere, less in need of any breathing space.…

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