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Stories for week of March 17, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Mar. 22

 Pollster finds US elites willing to cheat in elections
 Irish doctors’ group rejected assisted suicide
 New Hampshire man charged under new fetal-homicide law
 Haitian bishops plead for peace, reject government role
 English diocese clears bishop-elect after investigation of charges
 Congo cardinal raps restoration of death penalty
 A frank appraisal of Catholic-school decline
 US weakness creates ‘intolerable’ situation in Gaza, prelate says
 Pharmacist’s refusal to dispense abortifacient violated Minnesota’s human rights law, court rules
 USCCB urges State Department not to tie foreign aid to support for gender ideology, abortion
 Cardinal Zuppi pens new book, God Does Not Leave Us Alone
 Papal encouragement for Brazilian bishops’ social week
 Pope Francis invited to visit Spain
 Vatican newspaper laments ‘veil of denied rights’ in Afghanistan
 Prelate works to ‘keep the light of Christianity alive’ in Turkey

Released Thursday, Mar. 21

 Cardinal Müller: Pope should sympathize with Ukraine
 Pope, ‘child of migrants,’ sends support to migrants in Panama
 Malta’s president meets with Pontiff
 German bishops to confer with Vatican on Synodal Council
 Papal visit to Indonesia under discussion?
 Belgian bishop laicized after repeated pleas for Vatican action
 Congo cardinal speaks on exploitation of resources, challenge of Fiducia
 Kremlin mum on possible papal visit
 US abortions up 10% since 2020; 63% caused by abortion pills
 Pope urges Poland to protect life from the moment of conception
 Belize awaits new bishop after puzzling resignation
 Italian president pays tribute to Pope Francis
 Vatican newspaper highlights strict fasting discipline of Ethiopian, Eritrean Catholic churches
 5 parish priests from US to participate in world meeting of priests in Rome
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ begins 4-day diplomatic visit to Montenegro

Released Wednesday, Mar. 20

 Vatican denies plans afoot for papal trip to Moscow
 Pope appeals to St. Joseph to help war victims
 Prudence is focus of weekly papal audience
 New statutes for Roman basilica of St. Mary Major
 ‘Eradicate indifference’ toward migrants, Pope urges bishops of Colombia, Panama
 Rupnik work featured on Vatican News site
 New Biden rules restrict faith-based federal contractors
 Texas priest suspended after calling Pope ‘usurper’
 Vatican diplomat: Address climate change—but not through population control
 US bishops call for daily prayer for Supreme Court decision on abortion pill

Released Tuesday, Mar. 19

 Aparecida shrine will go forward with Rupnik mural project
 Americans see religious influence in decline, poll finds
 Papal message for World Day of Prayer for Vocations
 Pope’s message cites need for family farms
 India’s bishops call for fasting, prayer to end persecution
 Biden ‘skittish’ on abortion despite advocacy?
 Legal experts fault Vatican justice system in landmark trial
 Papal praise for priest killed after denouncing Mafia
 Judge approves New Jersey diocese’s $87.5M abuse settlement
 Grammy-winning Florida priest returned to ministry after man withdraws allegation
 Supreme Court declines appeal from Catholic parents who lost custody of trans teen
 A proclamation, not a show: papal message for Holy Week processions in Spanish city
 512 people now living at Gaza’s Catholic parish
 Pontifical Biblical, Oriental Institutes merged with Pontifical Gregorian University
 Renewed papal call for prayer for nations suffering from war
 Pope expresses relief over release of the kidnapped in Haiti, prays for those still held

Released Monday, Mar. 18

 Biden proclaims Catholic faith at St. Patrick’s day brunch
 Veteran Vatican diplomat questions two-state solution
 Irish primate: avoid extremes on immigration
 Vatican probes privacy violations in connection with financial trial
 ‘Giving and forgiveness are the essence of the glory of God,’ Pope tells pilgrims
 Giving, care, and community: papal remarks for 100th anniversary of Bambino Gesù Hospital
 ‘Working among the last,’ ‘working together’: papal encouragement for Italian charity
 Pope remembers late German cardinal’s care for the poor
 Papal tribute to Patriarch Neophyte, late head of Bulgarian Orthodox Church
 Vatican newspaper recalls anniversary of Syrian civil war
 Vatican publishing house highlights Catholics who opposed Hitler
 Theme of 4th Lenten sermon to the Curia: ‘I am the resurrection and the life’
 New officials named to pontifical abuse commission
 Pontifical Academy for Life on abortion in France: ‘There can be no right to suppress a human life’

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