Stories for week of April 07, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Apr. 12

 German police thwart terror attacks on Christian churches
 Priest in Myanmar shot down during Mass
 Bishops lament EU vote to enshrine abortion right
 Texas bishop rips anti-immigrant rhetoric
 Africans defending faith, Cardinal Sarah says
 Chaldean Catholic returns to Baghdad after voluntary exile
 Pope’s popularity ratings in US still high despite slippage
 Archbishop Gänswein to become papal nuncio?
 Vatican prosecutor sues Italian journalist for defamation
 Papal thanks, encouragement for Papal Foundation
 Vatican announces 11-day papal trip to Indonesia, 3 other nations
 Chaldean Patriarch rededicates parish desecrated by ISIS
 Cleveland diocese among least transparent in addressing abuse, groups charge
 Australian state enacts elaborate conversion therapy ban
 Cardinal Gregory notes lack of priests at October Synod
 ‘Pope Francis shuts down the cafeteria,’ priest writes in Wall Street Journal op-ed
 Vietnam’s prime minister, Vatican’s ‘foreign minister’ hope for papal visit to Vietnam
 Pope Francis, bishops of Campania discuss ‘challenges of the Gospel’
 Vatican dicastery, African bishops encourage interreligious dialogue

Released Thursday, Apr. 11

 Catholic group sees ‘decisive breakdown in consensus’ on brain death
 Swiss bishops move forward with ‘Synodal Commission’
 Scottish bishop-elect dies before ordination
 SSPX priest admits to abuse charges in France
 Ghana bishop decries corruption of scholarship program
 Jesus joins those who suffer, Pope says
 Fight the ‘throwaway culture,’ Pope urges
 African bishops underline role of inter-religious dialogue
 Pope Francis praised Bishop Gumbleton as ‘a good shepherd’ in letter before his death
 New complaints of abuse by Father Rupnik presented to Vatican
 Arizona can enforce an 1864 law criminalizing nearly all abortions, court says
 Cardinal Gregory: Respectfully invite LGBTQ community to accept Church’s moral teaching
 In unusual move, bishop named an auxiliary bishop as Pope reshapes Church in western Ireland
 Economist Stiglitz meets with Pontiff
 Indigenous leader asks Pope to support Brazilian president in reversing damage to the Amazon

Released Wednesday, Apr. 10

 An odd press conference introducing DDF document
 ‘Gender care’ based on ‘shaky foundations,’ major British study finds
 Papal prayers for victims of Kazakh floods, Myanmar war
 Pope reactivates traditional title: ‘Patriarch of the West’
 Pope, at general audience, reflects on fortitude
 White House press secretary reacts to Dignitas Infinita
 Transgender Catholics, advocates criticize Dignitas Infinita
 13-year-old Filipina who loved the Eucharist begins official path to sainthood
 Catholic young adults more likely than Protestants to maintain religious affiliation
 Leading Catholic hospital system shrinks maternity care
 Plenary indulgences granted for National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, National Eucharistic Congress
 ‘Heavy metal’: Vatican newspaper rues mercury contamination in Amazon indigenous community

Released Tuesday, Apr. 9

 Lebanese prelate calls for calm after murder of Christian leader
 Chinese Church reports hundreds of Easter baptisms
 700 newly baptized in Nigerian diocese despite violence
 Catholic bishop protests deportation from Mexico
 European bishops: abortion cannot be a fundamental right
 Top Vatican diplomat in Vietnam for talks
 Survey: 21% of US adults attend religious services weekly
 Philippine bishops call for protection of land rights of indigenous people on resort island
 Leading prelate discusses challenges facing Church in Japan
 Pope visits working-class Roman parish, meets with 35 area priests
 Pope says he is taking time to discern appointment of new cardinal vicar of Rome
 Freed Nigerian priest discusses abduction ordeal
 Study from Netherlands: Most children outgrow transgender inclinations
 Strike down law criminalizing homelessness, USCCB urges in Supreme Court brief

Released Monday, Apr. 8

 Seton Hall University names new president after former head quits, sues school
 Russian prosecutors press charges against Ukrainian priests
 Vatican document condemns assaults on human dignity [News analysis]
 Trump: leave abortion issue to states
 Papal trip to Indonesia confirmed for September
 Israeli hostages’ families meet with Pontiff
 AP style book: no ‘false balance’ in climate coverage
 Argentine archbishop—key figure in Zanchetta affair—convicted of gender violence against nuns
 Wisconsin bishop charges Archbishop Viganó with illicit ordination, defamation
 Lawsuit challenging Indiana abortion restrictions succeeds on religious-freedom grounds
 USCCB action alert: Oppose IVF bills, as preborn lives are at stake
 Diocese of Rome shake-up: Pope Francis transfers vicar to Vatican post
 Leading Spanish lawmaker, Pontiff discuss government abuse report
 Like Mary, have compassion for the suffering of others: papal encouragement for Sicilian group
 Pope: Red Cross’s humanitarian work shows that fraternity is possible
 Renewed papal appeal for prayer for peace
 Papal call for sports to foster social friendship, fraternity
 Papal prayer for bus crash victims in South Africa
 Open your hearts to encounter Jesus, Pope tells pilgrims

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