Stories for week of April 28, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, May. 3

 Offer education especially to the needy, Pope urges
 Pursue simple life, not impossible ideals, Pope recommends
 New York diocese moves to dismiss bankruptcy, in impasse with creditors
 Chinese diocese closes year devoted to Catechism
 Spanish bishop rips government’s ‘obsessive’ focus on abuse
 Public statement calls for Pope’s resignation
 African bishops prepare study on responses to polygamy
 Bishop named for troubled Nigerian diocese
 Vatican announces 37 jubilee events
 Papal encouragement of Marian entrustment, prayer for peace during May
 Papal video: ‘Every vocation is a diamond in the rough’
 Ecumenical Patriarch issues Easter encyclical
 Theologian critiques Cardinal Fernández’s theology of charity
 Papal tribute to classic Fellini film
 It is ‘terrible to earn with death’: Pope denounces weapons factories
 Anglican primate signs AI ethics statement backed by pontifical academy
 Pope to speak at event on Italy’s record-low birth rate

Released Thursday, May. 2

 Trump gaining among Catholic voters, poll shows
 Jordan’s king meets with Pontiff
 Holy Land prelate mystified by US campus protests
 Pope seeks ‘patient’ ecumenical dialogue with Anglicans
 Pope says society must accept transgender people
 Florida bishops’ conference ‘pleased’ by public school chaplains
 Pope Francis writes to world’s parish priests, encourages ‘synodal and missionary’ Church
 Father Rupnik’s alleged victims rue upcoming mosaic dedication at world’s 2nd-largest church
 New Orleans archdiocese is target of child sex-trafficking inquiry, officials say
 Federal court upholds forced resignation of Indiana teacher who declined to use preferred pronouns
 Arizona lawmakers vote to repeal law protecting most unborn children from abortion
 Bishops’ conference posts 30-minute video touting CCHD
 USCCB committee chairman criticizes requirement to perform transgender procedures

Released Wednesday, May. 1

 Ukraine reports progress in Vatican mission to free children
 Congressmen propose naming road for Jimmy Lai; Hong Kong objects
 UK to lift rule limiting Catholic enrollment in Catholic schools
 Pope denounces profits from arms industry
 South African priest is gunshot victim
 Pope promises ‘open heart’ to pleas from parents of homosexuals
 Congressman seeks curbs on ‘Wild West’ of IVF technology
 Pope Francis, at general audience, reflects on virtue of faith
 Leading Vatican diplomat criticizes push for abortion
 Cardinal Parolin visits Brazil, discusses indigenous peoples, peace
 ‘Please, brothers, stay here,’ Franciscan minister general tells friars of the Holy Land
 AP sees ‘an immense shift toward the old ways’ in Church in the US
 ‘The saved and the drowned’: Vatican newspaper laments migrant boat disaster
 Young American women are leaving church in unprecedented numbers
 May papal prayer intention: for the formation of religious and seminarians
 Chinese Christian sentenced to 5 years in prison for sale of Bibles

Released Tuesday, Apr. 30

 Congo attorney general accuses cardinal of ‘seditious behavior’
 Court rules insurers must cover gender-change surgery
 French prosecutor dismisses charges against priest who opposed homosexuality
 Vandals strike again at Portland, Oregon church
 German diocese celebrates ‘Deacon’s Day’ for women
 Priest stole from parish, spent $40K on mobile phone games, police say
 Miami archbishop slams Biden for ‘unconscionable’ deportation of Haitian refugees
 Mexican bishop abducted, released
 Florida permits public school chaplains
 Vatican meeting of parish priests opens with talks by Synod cardinal, Czech theologian
 Pope encourages religious to look to Jesus and the poor, treasure ‘diversity in harmony’
 Sicilian bishops meet with Pontiff, discuss migration, criminality, depopulation
 Vatican cardinal pays tribute to St. John Paul II
 Schedule released for papal trip to Verona

Released Monday, Apr. 29

 Papal preface for book on synodality
 New York court: insurer not required to pay abuse claims for archdiocese
 Iraq outlaws homosexual acts,
 Cardinal Parolin rips EU vote on abortion
 Director of US bishops’ troubled CCHD program resigns
 Africa is united on Fiducia Supplicans, cardinal says
 Canonization soon for Pier Giorgio Frassati?
 Bishop to lead British ordinariate of former Anglicans
 Biden administration forbids disclosure of out-of-state abortions to law enforcement
 Fund the Affordable Connectivity Program, bishops, other Catholic leaders urge Congress
 ‘Taking care of the elderly is taking on a legacy,’ Pope tells foundation
 Papal tribute to the game of checkers
 Welcome, prayer, surrender: Pope addresses Burgos seminarians
 Love makes us better, richer, and wiser, Pope tells grandparents and grandchildren
 Impeached Brazilian ex-president meets with Pontiff
 Like Venice, people are beautiful, fragile, Pope says during journey to city

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