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Stories for week of March 24, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Saturday, Mar. 30

 Ask the risen Jesus to remove the stone from your heart, Pope preaches at Easter Vigil Mass
 Pope skips Good Friday Via Crucis in effort to preserve health

Released Friday, Mar. 29

 Pope presides at Good Friday service at St. Peter’s Basilica
 Ukrainian Orthodox blast Russian Orthodox support for war
 Pope composes meditations for Good Friday liturgy
 Texas bishop tells faithful: resist ‘racist’ border policies
 Detroit archbishop’s pastoral: respect biological gender
 Survey examines US Catholics’ views on environment, climate
 Cardinal Dolan: Packed Easter pews counter ‘atomized’ individualism
 ‘There is no place that is safe’: Haiti’s leading prelate has not been to his cathedral in 2 years
 USCCB publishes fact sheet on abortion pills
 Mexican prelate denounces nation’s treatment of migrants
 Look to Christ’s Resurrection in dark times, Jerusalem’s Christian leaders say in Easter message
 Pope emphasizes service, God’s forgiveness at Holy Thursday Mass in women’s prison
 Vatican spokesman warns against contemptuous judgments of others

Released Thursday, Mar. 28

 At Chrism Mass, Pope recalls tears of St. Peter
 See the face of Jesus, Pope urges Catholics in El Salvador
 Vatican cardinal leads Holy Week prayer vigil for recently martyred Christians
 Canadian territory’s capital imposes property tax on churches
 Sri Lanka bishops call for ‘major change’ in nation’s system of governance
 Catholic Army chaplain, Servant of God, to get statue at Kansas Capitol
 Idaho prohibits discrimination against religious believers in adoption and foster care cases
 War is a ‘catastrophe’ for Holy Land’s Christians, abbot says
 South Sudan’s suffering people are on ‘brink of destitution,’ bishop says

Released Wednesday, Mar. 27

 French Catholic dioceses report jump in adult baptisms
 Rising violence against Christians in India
 UK group asks inquiry into lockdown effects on religion
 Belgian church with lay-led liturgies loses parish status
 Russian Orthodox repudiate Fiducia Supplicans
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ speaks on Ukraine, Gaza
 Pope greets Israeli, Palestinian fathers who mourn children together
 Pope, at audience, speaks on patience
 Papal message of solidarity to Catholics in Holy Land
 Amid lawsuits, nation’s first state-funded Catholic school opens applications
 Ukrainian Catholic churches sealed off in Donetsk
 Usher accused of embezzling from large Charlotte parish
 Pope writes meditations for Via Crucis at Colosseum, Vatican says
 Supreme Court hears abortion-drug case
 Church in Latin America marks ‘World Day of Hope,’ in commemoration of Pope’s pandemic prayer
 UN criticizes Cuba’s imprisonment of pastor
 Nigerian prelate implores government to increase security
 Vatican cardinal, Polish president mark 80th anniversary of Ulma family’s martyrdom

Released Tuesday, Mar. 26

 Vatican cardinal says Synod should build a ‘rainbow’ Church
 Pope sends message to drug-plagued Argentine city
 Russia will not negotiate, Ukrainian prelate says
 Pope’s surgeon sees no major health concerns
 German bishops to proceed with Synodal Committee
 Pennsylvania diocese recruits former police to guard schools
 Cardinal Pizzaballa, Patriarch of Jerusalem, seen among papabile
 Sagrada Familia to be completed in 2026
 Louisiana deacon excommunicated for leaving Church, after his son was abused by priest
 Leading pro-life obstetrician-gynecologist discusses medical basis of mifepristone ruling
 USCCB committee chairman backs Senate resolution recognizing religious freedom as fundamental right
 Leading Italian bishop, Vatican newspaper pay tribute to ‘Via Crucis of a Gay Boy’
 Vatican releases schedule for papal trip to Venice
 Albanian foreign minister meets with Pontiff, emphasizes interreligious brotherhood

Released Monday, Mar. 25

 South Sudan: high court frees priest convicted in shooting of bishop
 Pope repeats message to youth: Hagan lio!
 Pope warns Nigerians against tribalism
 Vatican requires changes in French episcopal conference plans
 Rights groups rap abuse of Haitians in Dominican Republic
 Cardinal Fernandez meets with Pontiff; new document expected
 Myanmar cardinal prays for hope amid wartime fears
 Vatican prefect: ending celibacy would not spur vocations
 Argentine bishops critique Milei’s policies
 Cardinal Parolin echoes papal call for ‘ecological conversion’
 Report: Eucharistic Congress cautioned speaker over ‘Catholic Prayer for Trump’ event
 Louisiana Supreme Court strikes down ‘lookback window’ for child sex abuse victims
 New Indiana law strengthens right to have children released from public school for religious instruction
 US bishops call for Holy Week prayers to end Israel–Hamas war
 Synodal standoff: German bishops and Vatican commit to resolution roadmap
 Papal preacher concludes Lenten sermons on Christ’s ‘I am’ statements—after questioning whether Jesus said them
 ‘Service,’ ‘public’: papal encouragement for Italy’s public broadcasting network
 On Palm Sunday, Pope prays that people open hearts to God, quell all hatred

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