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Stories for week of May 28, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jun. 2

 Fort Worth bishop dismisses Carmelite superior
 Archbishop Gänswein ordered to leave Rome?
 All mission work is Christ’s work: Cardinal Tagle
 Cardinal Farrell to head Vatican City appeals court
 St. Peter’s Basilica opens exhibit on Marian coronations
 Naked man jumps on altar of St. Peter’s Basilica to protest Ukraine war
 New Vatican statistics note ‘downward trend’ in Catholic baptisms worldwide
 Spanish bishops’ abuse report finds that nearly 83% of victims are male
 ‘Let us put a stop to this horror of torture,’ Pope pleads in video
 Thousands of European churches open for ‘night of the churches’
 Pope merges 2 Italian dioceses
 Vatican newspaper laments ‘cruel paradox’ of food waste in world of widespread hunger
 Pope Francis, in message, invokes Mary as Mediatrix of all graces, warns against ‘sterile traditionalism’

Released Thursday, Jun. 1

 Educating a child takes a village, Pope says
 Cardinal Tobin suggests faithful voluntarily eschew gun ownership
 Archbishop Cordileone thanks priests for ‘clandestine’ Masses during lockdown
 Pope points Latin American entrepreneurs toward ‘culture of encounter’
 Pittsburgh bishop: cancel ‘Pride Mass’
 Vatican questions transfer of funds from Pontifical Mission Societies
 Indian bishop, acquitted of rape charge in civil court, resigns
 Brazil’s Lula, Pope Francis discuss Ukraine war in phone call
 Ukrainian Catholic leader: Bishops are creating ‘broad international coalition in support of Ukraine
 EEOC files suit against Virginia company for discrimination, retaliation against Christian
 Nevada governor signs pro-abortion legislation
 Australian indigenous leader at the Vatican for week-long visit
 At Marian shrines, Synod is entrusted to Blessed Virgin Mary’s intercession
 New leadership for Pontifical Academy for Latin
 Vatican newspaper draws attention to indigenous protests in Brazil
 Entrusting Ukraine to Mary, Pope praises youth from Ukraine, Russia who ‘live as brothers’
 June papal prayer intention: for the abolition of torture

Released Wednesday, May. 31

 Ireland: bigger, older, less Catholic
 Notre Dame’s fire-ravaged roof rebuilt using medieval techniques
 Pope, at general audience, pays tribute to Venerable Matteo Ricci
 Suspended priest elected governor of Nigerian state
 Catholics lead protests against mining, oil drilling in Ecuadorian Amazon
 Macron meets Maronite Patriarch, calls on Lebanon to end ‘political impasse’
 222 churches, 115 villages burned down in Indian state, tribal forum says
 Dicastery for Clergy signs agreement on protection of minors
 Vatican foreign minister: Solidarity is a privileged path to peace
 Despite growing use, abortion pill not ‘safer than Tylenol’ and carries serious risks

Released Tuesday, May. 30

 Vatican launches ‘Family Global Compact’
 Anti-Catholicism now in fashion
 Pope Francis creates ecclesiastical province of Las Vegas, names metropolitan archbishop
 ‘We don’t have an agenda’ for Synod on synodality, Cardinal Grech says in new interview
 Archbishop Paglia discusses relevance of Humanae Vitae today
 Sister Wilhelmina’s body placed in glass case after solemn Rosary procession
 Syro-Malabar synod announces emergency meeting to end liturgical dispute
 3 priests arrested in Belarus
 Cardinal Becciu blasts vendettas, ‘plots against me’ in Vatican financial trial
 Nicaragua accuses Church of money laundering, freezes accounts
 Victims who were sexually abused in Bolivia’s Jesuit schools make their voices heard
 Head of Muslim World League meets with Pontiff
 In US, median age of childbirth rises to 30
 Papal prayer for cyclone victims in Myanmar and Bangladesh
 Jesus and Mary are close to you, Pope tells young cancer patients

Released Monday, May. 29

 New Vatican document offers guidance for use of social media [News Analysis]
 Pope again condemns proselytism
 Pope encourages African youth to conquer continent’s problems
 Italian president awarded Paul VI prize
 St. Louis archdiocese, Columbus diocese closing parishes
 Enormous Chartres pilgrimage captures French media attention
 The Holy Spirit frees us from fear, Pope tells pilgrims
 The Holy Spirit acts in creation, in the Church, and in our hearts, Pope preaches at Pentecost Mass
 EU bishops, other Christian leaders issue Pentecost message
 ‘Bullying destroys life,’ Pope tells Scholas Occurrentes
 Pope, in interview, describes unborn child as ‘a living being, I’m not saying a person’
 ‘Bishop of the peripheries’ named Archbishop of Buenos Aires
 Pope accepts Strasbourg archbishop’s resignation
 Pope reflects on the Catholic imagination

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