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Stories for week of May 14, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, May. 19

 Death rate rising among young Americans
 Australian state drops plan to take over Catholic cemeteries
 CELAM elects new leadership
 Ukrainian priests, seized by Russian troops in November, still detained
 German dioceses push ahead with lay leadership, ignoring Vatican
 Vatican withdraws postage stamp after protests
 Europe cannot accept war in Ukraine, Cardinal Parolin says
 Nicaragua closes Catholic university
 Pope sending envoys to Moscow, Kyiv?
 Archbishop Gänswein meets with Pope: to discuss new assignment?
 USCCB, CRS, Catholic Charities ask Congress not to make ‘disproportionate cuts’ in programs for the poor
 Michigan governor signs pro-abortion law
 North Carolina bishops weigh in on new pro-life law
 Hebrew Bible sells for $38.1M
 Eastern Orthodoxy gains new followers in America
 Car rushes Vatican gate, is fired on by gendarmes
 Pontifical academy establishes task force on alleged Marian apparitions
 Pope Francis, in book preface, calls for ecological transition
 Papal message to CELAM highlights synodality, service
 Pope prays for peace in Ukraine

Released Wednesday, May. 17

 Pope interrupts audience to take phone call
 North Carolina: legislators approve abortion ban over governor’s veto
 German Catholic Church could face financial collapse
 Pope Benedict predicted battle with gender ideology, theologian says
 Trump, DeSantis spar on abortion law
 Papal reflection on link between peace, development
 Pope, at general audience, pays tribute to St. Francis Xavier
 Former abbot of Montecassino acquitted of embezzlement charges
 New EWTN film about Catholic priest in hiding receives blessing from Pope Francis
 WCC general secretary visits Moscow and Patriarch Kirill
 USCCB, Catholic education leaders call on Biden administration to abandon transgender policy for school sports
 Pope Francis marks 650th anniversary of Julian of Norwich’s visions
 Caritas elects new secretary-general, vice president
 ‘Red alert for the white giant’: Vatican newspaper draws attention to melting of glacier

Released Tuesday, May. 16

 ‘Value Movers’ relocate to escape anti-Christian climates
 French bishops to issue ID cards for priests in good standing
 Sharp rise in executions worldwide in 2022
 South Carolina parish vandalized
 Indian religious urge bishops to push back against anti-Christian violence
 ‘God is trans’ exhibit remains in NY Paulist church, but with controversial title removed
 Cathedral desecrated in Tanzania
 New US report alleges religious freedom violations in China, Iran, India
 African bishops appeal for debt cancellation ahead of G7 summit
 Putin returns famed icon to Russian Orthodox Church
 USCCB committee chairman warns against over-the-counter sale of birth control pill
 8 border bishops call for compassion for migrants in need
 Tokyo archbishop elected new president of Caritas
 Papal call for pro-family policies to address poverty, demographic winter

Released Monday, May. 15

 State attorneys charge JP Morgan with bias against conservatives, Christians
 San Diego diocese plans bankruptcy filing
 Pope prays for successful ceasefire in Gaza
 Holy Land patriarchs renew call for Palestinian state
 Pope reflects on Holy Spirit’s closeness, assistance
 Jury convicts priest of sex trafficking 3 victims in northern Ohio
 UN official, Pontiff discuss Palestinian refugees
 Cardinal Parolin: Church has conservation of art and culture at heart
 Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Vatican issue joint statement condemning euthanasia, assisted suicide
 Ukrainian leader, Pope Francis discuss humanitarian situation provoked by war
 Consider the countryside a gift from God, Pope tells young farmers
 Portuguese lawmakers override president’s veto, pass euthanasia law
 Look to Mary, cultivate prayer and communion with the Church: papal call to Catholic women’s organizations
 Pontiff reforms Vatican City State’s ‘constitution’
 Pope asks new ambassadors: ‘When will we learn from history?’

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