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Catholic Culture Overview
Catholic Culture Overview

Stories for week of March 28, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Apr. 2

 Gunfire targets Missouri convent
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 Pope celebrates surprise Holy Thursday evening Mass with ousted cardinal
 Mexican-US border bishops issue statement on migrants
 Pope Francis, Grand Imam write forewords to book on Human Fraternity document
 The Eucharist is the ‘life and center of the Church,’ Cardinal Re preaches at evening Mass of Holy Thursday
 Papal gratitude for 100,000 messages of well-wishes from Buenos Aires
 Joyful proclamation, persecution, and the cross go together, Pope preaches at Holy Thursday Chrism Mass

Released Thursday, Apr. 1

 Massacres call attention to years of bloodshed in Mozambique
 Cardinal Bo sees “21st-century Calvary” in Myanmar violence
 Colorado will give assault victims unlimited time to sue their abusers
 Supreme Court declines to consider challenge to Illinois worship restrictions
 Catholic leaders welcome move to ditch ‘Maryland, My Maryland’
 Florida bishop: Sunday Mass dispensation will cease on Pentecost
 Chaldean Patriarch reveals: Pope gave $350K to poor Iraqis
 Martyred judge showed mafia’s ‘intrinsic denial of the Gospel,’ Pope writes in book preface
 Pope’s April prayer intention: fundamental rights
 Canada’s assisted suicide law could especially harm indigenous peoples, group warns
 Philippine bishop chides government over church gatherings ban
 2 US bishops tell the transgendered: ‘The Image of God resides in you’
 Federal court sides with Cardinal Gregory, strikes down DC’s limits on houses of worship
 Oppose the Equality Act, Cardinal Dolan urges
 Church in Philippines marks 500th anniversary of first Mass
 Vatican releases children’s meditations for Pope’s Good Friday Way of the Cross
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ advocates for support for conflict-ravaged Syria
 ‘A new sign of hope’: Canadian bishops issue Easter message

Released Wednesday, Mar. 31

 Biden administration adds abortion access, gay rights to human rights list
 Defiant Irish priest will not pay fine for celebrating Mass
 Myanmar: demonstrations continue; over 500 killed
 Sign-language interpretations of papal audiences to be available online
 Pope, at audience, prepares faithful for Easter Triduum
 Pope grants ‘time out’ to German archbishop faulted over abuse
 Massachusetts city council recognizes polygamous domestic partnerships
 Bandits kidnap priest, others in Kaduna village
 Kwara government imposes hijab on Catholic schools
 Kentucky bishops applaud passage of school choice bill
 Gunmen kill priest, 3 parishioners in Nigeria
 Dallas parish priest calls cops on maskless, pregnant mom holding baby during Mass
 US Catholics divided by party on whether Biden should be denied Communion over his abortion stance
 Vatican releases new document: Pastoral Orientations on Climate Displaced Persons
 Common efforts needed in education to combat climate change, Pope tells UNESCO
 South Sudan’s government warns bishops against reopening churches for Easter
 Border surge straining shelters, says Mexican bishops’ migrant ministry
 Italy sees worst gap between births, deaths since 1918 Spanish flu

Released Tuesday, Mar. 30

 Cardinal Schönborn underlines criticism of Vatican statement on same-sex blessings
 Syrian prelate welcomes international community’s concern
 Cardinal Zen joins plea to lift ban on private Masses at St. Peter’s
 Bose founder promises to leave community, as ordered
 Wikileaks founder received letter from Pope
 Rockville Centre diocese, in bankruptcy proceedings, sells chancery building
 British Columbia suspends indoor worship less than 1 week before Easter
 After Bloody Saturday, Myanmar Catholics pray for peace, those who died
 Pope expresses closeness to Panama amid Covid crisis
 In US, church membership falls below majority for first time
 Pope calls on priests to conform themselves to Christ
 Leading US religious sister calls on Michigan GOP leader to resign
 In Jerusalem, Palm Sunday celebrations go on despite significant absence of Palestinian Christians, pilgrims
 Special commissioner completes reorganization of Fabric of Saint Peter
 Prelate issues Palm Sunday appeal for end to violence in Cabo Delgado
 Court upholds removal of father’s roadside cross
 Pakistani Catholics volunteer to protect churches against terrorist attacks
 World’s Catholic population continues to rise amid decline in number of seminarians, sisters
 Vatican diplomat laments pornography, urges society to combat ‘motherhood penalty’

Released Monday, Mar. 29

 Cardinal Sarah urges Pope to rescind ban on private Masses at St. Peter’s
 Two Polish bishops sanctioned for neglect of abuse charges
 Irish government: public Mass is a criminal offense
 Court denies University of Iowa officials immunity in religious freedom case
 Maronite Patriarch, Lebanon’s interim PM discuss political and economic crisis
 Papal preacher concludes Friday Lenten sermons to Pope, Curia
 Pope calls for ‘proactive repentance where necessary’ as Vatican City’s judicial year begins
 English bishop speaks out after mother loses appeal over life support for 5-year-old girl
 Paris archbishop suppresses experimental pastoral center
 Consecrated women and men are ‘witnesses to the beauty of God,’ Vatican cardinal says
 Vatican diplomat laments persecution, calls for recognition of religions’ contributions to peace
 Vatican observes ‘Earth Hour’
 Church in China saved from demolition, but cannot be used
 Papal prayer for victims of Indonesian cathedral attack
 US bishop chairman welcomes repeal of death penalty in Virginia
 ‘Let us ask for the grace to be amazed,’ Pope preaches on Palm Sunday

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