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Catholic Culture Overview

Stories for week of April 25, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Apr. 30

 Vatican tribunals can judge cardinals, bishops, Pope rules
 Notre Dame faculty members protest mandatory vaccination
 New bishop for Biden’s diocese
 Montana enacts Religious Freedom Restoration Act
 Connecticut ends its state religious vaccine exemption
 West Virginia transgender athlete bill signed by governor
 Sledgehammer attack damages Guadalupe mural at California church
 Louisiana bishop eliminates mask requirement at Masses
 Leading Kenyan Catholic doctor, who differed with bishops over vaccine, dies of Covid
 Without tourists, Medjugorje has turned into a ghost town
 Patriarch Kirill speaks of offer to head opposition in 1990s
 ‘I will be with you,’ South Sudanese bishop-elect vows following murder attempt
 Ecumenical Patriarch issues Easter encyclical
 At least 67 attacks on Catholic churches in US over past year
 Pope calls on Venezuelans to be reconciled, serve one another

Released Thursday, Apr. 29

 Irish government will lift ban on Mass
 Pope issues tough new rules against Vatican financial corruption
 Church marks Day of Martyrdom of Polish Clergy
 Archdiocese of Santa Fe to sell 732 properties for abuse settlements
 Vatican reinstates suspended Kentucky priest, but bars him from entering schools
 New Jersey attorney general sues township, alleging anti-Jewish zoning actions
 Arizona governor signs bill banning abortions on babies with Down syndrome
 In Mexico, 237 bishops, priests, deacons have died of Covid
 Wisconsin dioceses have concerns about attorney general’s new abuse investigation
 ‘Extreme and unjust’: Scotland’s bishops criticize Ireland’s ban on the celebration of Mass
 Bishops, others weigh in on President Biden and the reception of Holy Communion
 Caritas deplores ‘worldwide indifference’ to migrants who perish in the Mediterranean
 Holy See calls for inclusion of religious and faith communities in public debate
 Ukraine’s president favors Vatican as place for summit with Putin
 German bishop confronts theologian for claiming Catholics against ‘gender equality’ are racist

Released Wednesday, Apr. 28

 Ecuador: bishops resign after charges of corruption
 Cardinal Parolin cancels trip to Venezuela
 Former auditor says Vatican funds invested in morning-after pill
 Cardinal Pell says German bishops must uphold Scriptural teachings
 CDC director: masked and vaccinated people can worship indoors
 Meditation centers on Christ, Pope tells audience
 Theme of Pope’s general audience: Meditative prayer
 Rhode Island diocese loosens Covid restrictions
 2 parishes in the Sacramento diocese vandalized
 Survey finds Jews, white Catholics most likely to accept Covid vaccine
 Vatican approves strengthening safeguarding studies, research in Rome
 Nuncio tells besieged Mexican town: The church is with you
 Oklahoma governor signs fetal heartbeat law
 Dioceses appeal to Supreme Court for protection against New York’s abortion coverage mandate
 South Korean cardinal dies at 89
 Trustees decide not to fly gay pride flags at Halton Catholic schools
 White House ‘respectfully disagrees’ with bishops on fetal tissue research
 Pope prays for South Sudanese bishop-elect who survived murder attempt
 Jesuits, Indian Catholics call for release of Father Swamy
 German Christians prepare for ecumenical convention

Released Tuesday, Apr. 27

 China continues restraints on ‘underground’ Catholics
 New Mexico dioceses respond differently after governor lift limits
 Clergy among 12 arrested after bishop-elect shot in South Sudan
 India’s bishops say government negligent in addressing pandemic
 US bishops welcome President Biden’s goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
 Cardinal Cupich, Holocaust survivor share hate speech concerns
 Conference examines the ‘Biden effect’ on the Church
 Papal gift of medical equipment to Armenia
 England’s bishops encourage Catholics to place Sunday Mass at the heart of their post-pandemic lives
 Iraqi cardinal blames hospital tragedy on corruption
 Pope would like to visit North Korea, prelate says
 ‘Prayer, consultation, verification’: Cardinal Ouellet discusses work of Congregation of Bishops
 Faith-based aid agencies urge governments to address global famine
 Bishop Bätzing opens path to Protestants receiving Holy Communion in Germany
 Rally at Connecticut Catholic college ‘affirms support for LGBTQ+ community’
 Pope encourages Poor Clare nuns in their vocation

Released Monday, Apr. 26

 Canonization looms for Charles de Foucauld, others
 Vos Estis investigation coming for Bishop Stika?
 Pope adding lay members to new dicasteries
 Cyprus: Orthodox defy lockdown orders for Easter
 Quebec court upholds most of religious symbols ban, but English-language schools exempt
 10 martyrs beatified in Guatemala
 German president urged to withhold medal for Cardinal Marx
 UN leader, Pope Francis urge global multilateral solutions for peace, prosperity
 Spanish bishops: 220 abuse allegations reported to Vatican since 2001
 14 priests in India lost to Covid in 4 days
 Vatican prefect commemorates anniversary of Armenian genocide
 Eastern churches: Do not forget the Syrian bishops kidnapped by jihadists in 2013
 14th-century lay Dominican declared a saint
 Priesthood is ‘a gift of service,’ Pope says at ordination Mass
 Papal appeal: Migrants at sea should never be denied aid
 In Ireland, Church publishes new primary school sex education program
 Papal message to President Biden’s climate summit
 Jesus is the ‘true shepherd who defends, knows and loves his sheep,’ Pope tells pilgrims

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