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Stories for week of May 21, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, May. 26

 Ukrainian Orthodox moving Christmas celebration to December 25
 Jesuit magazine publishes partial defense of anti-Catholic group
 Archbishop Cordileone raps downgrading of vandalism charges
 Chicago’s Cardinal Cupich ‘perplexed’ by attorney general’s report on abuse
 Vatican statement boosts ‘green’ tourism
 Russia acknowledges Vatican peace effort, but no movement yet
 Pope, suffering from fever, cancels audiences
 Bolivian bishops acknowledge being ‘deaf’ to sex abuse victims
 Same-sex couples accounted for 1% of households in 2020, US Census shows
 Archbishop Coakley: ‘We have to reclaim the narrative’ on transgenderism
 After Dodgers reinstate plan to honor group, LA archdiocese calls on Catholics to support women religious
 Hundreds kidnapped from Nigerian villages as violence intensifies
 Leading Brazilian prelate elected CELAM president
 Jubilee year of Blessed Savina Petrilli begins
 Newly ordained Roman priests, deacons meet with Pope
 Volleyball players featured in series of dialogues between athletes, Vatican officials
 ‘Be united to Jesus, close to your brothers and sisters, and active in service,’ Pope tells Don Orione sisters

Released Thursday, May. 25

 Belgian bishop claims papal approval to bless same-sex unions
 Pope demands end to ‘senseless war against Creation’
 Make all welcome, shun clericalism, Pope tells Italian bishops
 Theologian cites Ratzinger’s thoughts on crisis, synodality
 Ukrainian bishop with 6 parishes under occupation: ‘I can only worry’
 Survey: Church attendance, importance of religion declines among Americans overall
 USCCB issues action alert on debt ceiling
 German bishops’ leader: Lay homilies still on the agenda
 Lawsuit claims Cardinal O’Malley, Boston archdiocese officials failed to stop school official’s sexual abuse
 Preserved body of Black Catholic nun and foundress draws hundreds to rural Missouri
 Papal encouragement for Bulgarian unity
 North Macedonian leader meets with Pope
 Pope Francis expresses closeness to Chinese Catholics who suffer

Released Wednesday, May. 24

 Baseball’s Dodgers to honor anti-Catholic hate group
 Mexican priest killed; bishop decry society of violence
 Vatican official to investigate abuse complaints in Bolivia
 Papal directive clarifies duties of Auditor General during papal interregnum
 Illinois attorney general issues report on clerical abuse
 Bishop Strickland rebuked for criticism of Pope?
 Nigerian bishop needs armed guards in diocese marked by anti-Christian violence
 Pope, at general audience, pays tribute to St. Andrew Kim Taegon
 Agenda announced for US bishops’ June meeting
 Cardinal Zuppi, Pope’s peace envoy, talks about war in Ukraine
 Shanghai bishop leads pilgrimage to Marian shrine
 Bishops from flood-hit Emilia-Romagna region meet with Pope
 Vatican announces international meeting on human fraternity
 Cardinal Parolin: Blessed Pope John Paul I was an effective peacemaker
 ‘Torn-out land’: Vatican newspaper draws attention to plight of Brazilian city
 Pope urges Italian bishops’ assembly to address challenges of Church and world

Released Tuesday, May. 23

 Bolivian Jesuits announce archbishop was accused of rape
 Nicaragua seminary faculty closure was likely forced compromise
 Dodgers re-invite anti-Catholic group to Pride Night after uproar
 Many Catholic schools quit ‘painful tradition’ of Native mascots, but holdouts remain
 Cardinal Ladaria: Truth about humanity and sexuality doesn’t change because of changes in ideology
 Anglican prelate meets with Pontiff
 Pope Francis: May we hear the voice of the unborn through science
 Logo for 53rd International Eucharist Congress unveiled
 ‘Hands off Africa!’: Pope’s new book hits stores
 Pope to Vocationists: Always be an open space to welcome vocations
 Theme of Laudato Si’ Week 2023: ‘Hope for the Earth, Hope for Humanity’
 Pope urges Sudan’s warring sides to lay down arms as new cease-fire looms

Released Monday, May. 22

 Slovenian president meets with Pontiff
 Pope to visit Fatima on trip for World Youth Day in Lisbon
 Another priest kidnapped in Nigeria
 Justice Gorsuch warns of encroachments on civil liberties
 Confirmed: Pope sending Italian cardinal to Moscow, Kyiv as mediator
 Jesus, who ascended into heaven, intercedes for us before the Father, Pope tells pilgrims
 Foster missionary zeal: papal encouragement to Tanzania’s bishops
 Argentine sheikh meets with Pontiff
 Papal condolences following deadly Italian floods
 Italian abbey marks 900th jubilee year
 Italian priest slain by Nazis recognized as martyr; 8 other beatification causes advance
 Papal warning to young people against gossip
 Discover beauty of Christian witness and intercede for others, Pope tells pilgrims from Italian diocese
 Be embraced by Mary’s tender arms, Pope says to Monfort Missionaries
 As G7 leaders meet, Pope warns of threat posed by nuclear weapons

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Easter

Saturday of the Third Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Damien de Veuster, Priest; Opt. Mem. of St. John of Avila

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Today the Proper Calendar for the US celebrates the Optional Memorial of Father Damien de Veuster, SS.CC. (1840-1889), formerly Joseph de Veuster, and fondly called St. Damien of Molokai. (In Hawaii this is an Obligatory Memorial.) He was a Belgian missionary of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of…

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