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Stories for week of May 12, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, May. 17

 Exercise conscientious objection without pride, Pope urges health-care workers
 Theme chosen for 2021 World Meeting of Families
 Vatican clears CDF official of abuse charges
 Police broke into archives of Houston archdiocese to obtain subpoenaed documents
 Chinese Catholics block demolition of shrine
 Chaldean cardinal slams anti-Christian discrimination in Iraq, calls for respect for rule of law
 Kenya’s bishops decry deaths among young people
 UN investigates Ortega regime for torture, murder of opponents in Nicaragua
 Pakistani prelate condemns human trafficking in brides
 Rome diocese’s ‘Festival of Peoples’ celebrates cultural diversity amid rising anti-immigrant sentiment
 President Trump’s proposed cuts to family immigration are ‘extremely disturbing,’ says USCCB official
 Venezuelan bishops rip high court for stripping lawmakers of immunity
 West Africa’s bishops vow to join forces against terrorism
 Pontifical academies host conference on robotics and artificial intelligence
 Pope Francis praises St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle as ‘genius and creative innovator’ in education

Released Thursday, May. 16

 Chicago archdiocese using cemetery funds to pay abuse settlements
 Ontario court rejects ‘conscience clause’ for doctors
 Detroit archbishop calls for new efforts to observe the Sabbath
 Police search files of Dallas diocese
 No Chinese translation of the Global Times interview with Cardinal Parolin
 Sri Lanka: Muslim leaders ask forgiveness for the Easter massacres
 Syrian rebels fire missiles at largely Christian town
 New Bible translation, the ‘Bible of the Church in America,’ completed
 Elderly Christian women assaulted in Iraq’s Nineveh Plain
 Leading Vatican diplomat calls for renewed commitment to multilateralism
 Pope gives migrant children a ride on his popemobile
 Kenyan bishop who hosts 200,000 South Sudan refugees pleads for peace
 As European elections approach, Caritas rues social exclusion, demographic decline
 Catholic, Protestant leaders call for ‘courageous leadership’ in Northern Ireland
 Pope Francis recalls the words of Our Lady of Fátima
 For first time, Neocatechumenal Way bishop to lead mainland US diocese

Released Wednesday, May. 15

 Pope favors ‘social economy,’ Cardinal Turkson explains
 Wall Street Journal editorial: ‘No religious exemptions from vaccines’
 Alabama legislature passes tight abortion law
 Bangladeshi Catholic journalist arrested for defaming bishop, priests
 Court orders probe into Indian bishop’s death
 In Myanmar, terror plot against temples and churches thwarted
 Venezuelan bishops document Maduro regime’s repression
 Church marks 350th anniversary of presence in Thailand
 Vatican official emphasizes evangelization in address to West Africa’s bishops
 Pope reiterates closeness to South Sudan
 Bishops ban use of plastic bags at major African shrine
 Holy See diplomat reiterates promotion and defense of family
 Theme of Pope’s general audience: ‘Deliver us from evil’
 Pope encourages Jewish-Catholic dialogue
 8 sainthood causes advance
 Papal condolences following death of Cardinal Sfeir
 Pope to return to Assisi in 2020

Released Tuesday, May. 14

 New Ukrainian Orthodox leader breaks with old Patriarch, moves closer to Catholics
 Church leaders call for ‘courageous leadership’ in Northern Ireland
 Attack on Catholic parish in Niger, near Burkina Faso border
 Sicilian archdiocese sues lay movement in abuse case
 Four killed in new attack on Catholic church in Burkina Faso
 In Russia, 159 known ‘anti-missionary’ prosecutions in 2018
 Commission urges Trump administration to raise religious freedom in China trade talks
 New Jersey extends statute of limitations, allows sex abuse victims much more time to sue
 In Orissa, Christian imprisoned since 2008 for swami’s killing released
 In Egypt, Coptic Orthodox priest killed by a Christian guard
 Nicaraguan bishop decries intransigence of Ortega regime
 Key official discusses upcoming Amazon synod
 5,000 march for life in Westminster
 In new book, Bishop Barron urges Catholics not to quit over scandals, but stay and fight
 Chilean bishop says Pope’s criticism created ‘painful,’ ‘unfair’ image
 Exorcists see ecumenical agenda in fighting ‘voluntary possession’
 Vatican spokesman explains Pope’s Medjugorje pilgrimage approval

Released Monday, May. 13

 Psychologist blocked on Twitter for opposing sex-change surgery for children
 Cardinal Parolin touts Vatican-Beijing deal in interview with Communist Party newspaper
 Terrorists kill six in attack during Mass in Burkina Faso
 Papal almoner, in act of civil disobedience, turns on power to occupied building
 German women boycott Mass, refuse church work, in protest against hierarchy
 Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir dead at 98
 Pope meets with leaders of the Roman Curia
 St. Paul was ‘hard-headed but not hard-hearted,’ Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Women religious ‘must not become the servants of a cleric,’ Pope emphasizes
 Support the ‘imbalance’ of the Gospel, Pope tells Rome’s priests
 Sports are a ‘great school’ of self-control and respect for others, Pope tells Italian organization
 Church leaders in South Africa hopeful after elections
 Pope Francis ordains 19 men to the priesthood
 ‘The Good Shepherd is attentive to each one of us,’ Pope tells pilgrims
 Pope authorizes official pilgrimages to Medjugorje
 Annual Vatican message to Buddhists focuses on rights of women and girls
 ‘Change today’s economy’ and ‘give a soul to the economy of tomorrow,’ Pope tells young economists and entrepreneurs

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