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Stories for week of February 28, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Mar. 5

 DC archdiocese struggles to explain $2 million allocated for retired cardinal
 Lenten Sermon theme: Christ’s holy humanity
 Arriving in Iraq, Pope offers a message of solidarity, renewed hope
 Canadian bishops call out governments over unfair treatment in Covid regulations
 Washington archdiocese allocates $2M for Cardinal Wuerl’s ‘continuing ministry’
 Cardinal Gracias encourages ‘everyone to take the vaccine’
 Pressure eases on Cardinal Woelki
 Kenyan Christians cry for justice after arson targets churches
 Dallas diocese announces 1st synod since 1934
 ‘Something is changing’ in Iraq, Chaldean Patriarch says
 Bishops’ commission, other groups call on EU to protect work-free Sunday
 Pope Francis departs for Iraq
 Narrowing enrollment pipeline pressures Catholic colleges
 Kenyan archbishop criticizes Catholic doctors for opposing Covid vaccine
 President Biden mentions Our Lady of Guadalupe, shows Rosary in meeting with Mexico’s president

Released Thursday, Mar. 4

 Alumni group petitions Notre Dame not to invite Biden
 Lebanon: Chaldeans back Maronite call for international conference
 Washington Post notes bishops differ on Covid vaccine
 Pope names Cardinal Tobin to Congregation for Bishops
 Pope’s message to Iraq: ‘I come among you as a pilgrim of peace’
 Accused priest sues bishop, saying he was slandered
 3rd man alleges inappropriate behavior by popular Chicago priest Pfleger
 USCCB calls for prayers for Myanmar, solidarity with its people
 Don’t sell shuttered churches to developers, parishioners urge Chicago archdiocese
 Dianna Ortiz, American nun tortured in Guatemala, dies at 62
 Virginia court rejects challenge to remaining Covid restrictions on churches
 Becerra investigating hospital after ‘accusations that it applies Catholic limits on care’
 Texas governor lifts Covid restrictions; El Paso bishop maintains 25% capacity limit
 2 Protestant churches attacked in Bangladesh
 ‘Fratelli Tutti’ translated into Russian

Released Wednesday, Mar. 3

 Sri Lanka: cardinal presses government to solve Easter bombings
 Pope renews plea for peace as troops kill at least 10 protesters in Myanmar
 White House silent on forcing doctors to perform abortion
 German bishops’ president tells priests: allow intercommunion on a personal basis
 Pope, in general audience, reflects on prayer and the Most Holy Trinity
 Vandals steal and behead statue, cause other damage at Fort Worth parish
 Nigeria’s bishops: ‘The nation is falling apart’
 Hundreds demonstrate in Sioux City against closure of Catholic churches
 Acne mask or blackface? $20M lawsuit alleges Catholic school wrongfully forced out students over viral photo
 US bishops’ doctrine, pro-life chairmen address use of Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine
 French Catholic clergy may have abused at least 10,000 people since 1950, say investigators
 ‘Merciful priests and not torturers’: video released for March papal prayer intention
 Polish court acquits activists who put LGBT rainbow on icon
 US bishops’ working group on President Biden recommends document on ‘Eucharistic coherence’
 Vatican spokesman sees Pope’s Iraq trip as the ‘most difficult and most important journey of his pontificate’
 4th attack against Romanian Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem
 USCCB: Urgent action needed to prevent taxpayer funding for abortion in Covid relief bill
 German bishops call for change to Catechism on homosexuality

Released Tuesday, Mar. 2

 Pakistani Catholics honor Shahbaz Bhatti on 10th anniversary of killing
 279 kidnapped schoolgirls released in Nigeria
 ‘An economic and social time bomb’: some Chinese leaders call for end to fertility limits
 Patriarch Al-Rahi denounces creeping coup in Lebanon
 Philadelphia community fights to save oldest US diocesan all-girls high school
 Federal court rules New York’s no-fault divorce law did not infringe wife’s religious freedom
 Pope Francis, in book-length interview, defends historicity of Flood, reflects on God’s wrath
 ‘Go forth courageously in your work’: Pope encourages Franciscan ministry to poor in Florence
 Spain permits International Women’s Day marches while restricting worship
 Peru’s bishops denounce euthanasia as issue enters presidential campaign
 European bishops organize Eucharistic ‘prayer chain’ during Lent
 Vatican encourages ‘24 Hours for the Lord’ Confession initiative
 Vatican cardinal reflects on the value of penance in a time of pandemic
 Vandals strike at historic mother church of Knights of Columbus
 Baton Rouge bishop weighs in on Johnson & Johnson vaccine
 28 Notre Dame professors join call for Vatican investigation of USCCB over ‘pro-Trump politics’

Released Monday, Mar. 1

 New Orleans archdiocese warns against Johnson & Johnson vaccine
 Scottish bishops welcome government plan to allow public worship, question limits
 Benedict defends resignation, dismisses ‘conspiracy theories’
 Public-health experts question wisdom of Pope’s visit to Iraq
 St. Louis archbishop: all must wear masks in church
 Nun saves protesters from troops in Myanmar
 Despite cardinal’s plea, Dominicans haven’t posted a list of members credibly accused of abuse
 In Vatican abuse trial, witnesses say allegations about youth seminary were ignored
 With Bishop Strickland’s permission, massive Catholic center planned for east Texas
 Federally-funded news agency runs story emphasizing President Biden’s Catholic faith
 Supreme Court allows California churches to hold indoor services while appeals continue
 Vatican holds first observance of memorial of St. Gregory of Narek
 Religious orders’ heritage at ‘serious risk of sale and dispersion,’ Vatican cardinal warns
 Italy’s new prime minister has Vatican ties
 Members of Roman Curia conclude Lenten retreat
 Fast from gossip and slander, carry a pocket Gospel, Pope suggests for Lent
 Cardinal Turkson issues message for Rare Disease Day
 Papal appeal for release of 317 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria
 Pope Francis: Welcome Christ’s light, safeguard it, and share it
 March papal prayer intention: Sacrament of Reconciliation
 Indian state passes anti-conversion bill
 Canadian Supreme Court upholds funding for non-Catholic students at Catholic schools

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