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Stories for week of May 17, 2020
Ordered from most to least recent.
Released Friday, May. 22
Chinese legislation would curb Hong Kong’s autonomy
Young Belgian Catholics challenge ban on church services
Australian bishops weigh major reforms in governance
Kenyan bishops back petition campaign against sex education plan
British Catholic think-tank questions new organ-donor law
Churches are ‘essential,’ Trump declares
Russian Orthodox Patriarch suspends 2 bishops
Pakistan: government announces reopening of Punjab churches
Federal court upholds Maryland governor’s stay-at-home order
‘Ecological conversion has to take place now, before it is too late,’ Caritas leader warns
Rift between White House and CDC delays guidance for reopening houses of worship
Minnesota bishops to resume public Masses in defiance of governor’s order
Hungary outlaws changing birth sex on documents
Background: World Communications Day 2020
British bishop: CO19 brings questions of racial inequality to the fore
For first time in months, Pope receives small group in audience
Pope Francis outlines vision for Pontifical Mission Societies
Chaldean Patriarch laments plight of Iraq’s Christians, calls for national unity against CO19
World Health Assembly includes reproductive health in CO19 resolution, US objects
Released Wednesday, May. 20
Vatican data-processing functions moved to Secretariat for Economy
Vatican cautions against Israeli annexation of Palestinian land
Norma McCorvey repudiated pro-life conversion before death
US Labor department moves to protect religious freedom
Father Adolfo Nicolas, former Jesuit superior general, dead at 84
Russian Orthodox monasteries hard hit by pandemic
Oregon Supreme Court blocks judge’s ruling overturning stay-at-home orders
On Lesvos, Orthodox church vandalized, used as toilet
More than 600 Nigerian Christians killed in 2020, new report finds
New book: John Paul II’s mother chose life after her doctor advised an abortion
Pope reflects on prayer and the mystery of creation
France’s top court orders government to reopen places of worship
More dioceses, religious orders divest from fossil fuels
Changes in Church governance on agenda at Australian bishops’ plenary council
Do not abandon the most vulnerable during pandemic, Vatican diplomat says at WHO meeting
Pope merges 2 Alaskan dioceses
‘I was acting on the best information I had’: Texas bishop reflects on suspension of public Masses
At New York hospital, a friar watches over those dying
Released Tuesday, May. 19
Filipino bishop rips blanket restriction on church gatherings
French Council of State rules against ban on religious gatherings
Judge sides with archdiocese in dispute with Small Business Administration
With economy in crisis, Maronite Patriarch offers land to citizens, blasts Lebanese judiciary
US bishops’ committee, Catholic Charities denounce usury, deceptive lending practices
Missionary sister laments continued violent superstition in Papua New Guinea
Malawi’s religious leaders deplore political massacre
Report: Anti-Semitic incidents in US hit record high in 2019
Vatican calls attention to growing food crisis
Stop peddling abortion as CO19 relief, US official tells UN leader
EU court rules against Hungary’s detention of asylum seekers, including Christians
Amazon bishops call for urgent global action to avert humanitarian, environmental tragedy
Pontifical academy offers ‘contributions from the Catholic Church to ethical reflections in the digital era’
We have a Father, we are not orphans, Pope preaches at Mass
Pope speaks of postponed First Communions, seeks John Paul’s intercession for peace
Learn from John Paul and ‘enter Christ with your whole life,’ Pope Francis tells Kraków’s young people
John Paul II was a man of prayer, closeness, justice, Pope Francis preaches on saint’s centenary
Released Monday, May. 18
Ecuador: pro-lifers protest UN epidemic-aid package that promotes abortion
Indian bishop seeks approval to live as hermit
Montenegro: Serbian clerics released after being jailed for prayer service
Stalin, Putin removed from mosaics of new Russian Orthodox church
Federal judge upholds Louisiana limits on church services; pastor released from house arrest
Federal judge blocks North Carolina governor’s restrictions on religious services
UK emphasizes: No house of worship may reopen without government permission
With dozens of babies stranded in Ukraine, bishops call for an end to surrogacy
‘The only medicine against worldliness is Christ’: papal homily
Pope renews warning against rigidity
Poland’s bishops issue letter for 100th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s birth
Cardinal Turkson outlines work of Vatican’s CO19 commission
Pope Francis: As churches reopen, heed civil authorities’ health directives
Laudato Sì Week: papal encouragement for care of creation
At Regina Caeli address, Pope reflects on observance of the commandments, promise of the Holy Spirit
Angelicum launches St. John Paul II Institute of Culture; papal letter
St. Faustina’s feast day inscribed in General Roman Calendar
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