Stories for week of May 30, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jun. 4

 Legal scholar sees Supreme Court poised to reconsider Roe decision
 Vatican official addresses UN General Assembly on financial corruption
 Cardinal Zen leads tense memorial for Tiananmen victims in Hong Kong
 Biden to meet Pope in June?
 Milwaukee archdiocese balks at state abuse probe
 Some bishops were ‘too compliant’ with pandemic restrictions, Archbishop Chaput says
 Minnesota’s bishops end general dispensation from Mass obligation
 Cardinal Müller urges Rome to intervene in Germany, says blessings of same-sex unions are blasphemous
 Study examines mental health, faith, and Covid
 Cardinal Marx offers to resign, citing ‘systemic failure’ on abuse
 Virginia teacher placed on leave after speech disputing ‘biological boy can be a girl and vice versa’
 Sisters of Life mark 30th anniversary
 Catholic scientists ask: What if aliens exist?
 Covid in India: ‘The situation is dire,’ archbishop warns
 Christian couple acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan
 Easter Sunday massacres: Cardinal Ranjith speaks out against cover-ups, wants the truth
 Christian, Muslim leaders recall Pope’s journey to Iraq
 Vancouver’s archbishop apologizes to indigenous communities for Church’s role in residential schools
 Nearly 40% of world’s permanent deacons serve in US
 Kenyan bishops issue pastoral statement on state of the nation
 Haitian bishops oppose proposed changes to Constitution

Released Thursday, Jun. 3

 California to repay church for legal costs of anti-lockdown suit
 No Catholic Mass in Russian-controlled region of Ukraine
 Indonesian archbishop was terrorist target
 Federal court backs state funding for Catholic-school students in Vermont
 Australian archbishop opposes government takeover of cemeteries
 Scholar discounts new claim St. Peter’s remains may be in forgotten tomb
 With children’s prayers nearby, bishops try to tackle immigration
 Plenary indulgence granted to post-pandemic pilgrims in Italy
 Cardinal Gregory, bishops of 4 states lift general dispensation from Sunday Mass
 Florida governor signs bill on transgender athletes
 Cardinal calls on Pontifical Mission Societies to awaken the ‘missionary spirit that is at the heart of baptism’
 Christian persecution peaks amid impunity in pandemic-era India
 Dialogue needed on path to peace in Colombia, leading bishop says
 Pope blesses climate activist, asks for prayers at North Pole
 IRS recognizes Vatican’s financial regulations on client verification
 Nigerian bishop: ‘Now we are living in blood inspired by the failed promises of yesterday’
 Survivors, faith leaders call on Church to take responsibility for residential schools
 Video released for June papal prayer intention

Released Wednesday, Jun. 2

 US embassy to Vatican flies rainbow flag during ‘Pride’ month
 Bishop blesses ‘Pride’ event organized against Vatican statement
 Pandemic is not a punishment from God, Chaldean Patriarch says
 Theme of Pope’s general audience: Jesus, model and soul of all prayer
 Catholic school students outperform public school peers, despite slight decreases in overall academic scores
 Paris archbishop laments violent attack on Catholics honoring city’s martyrs
 USCCB issues action alert on Hyde amendment
 Montana governor signs bill on transgender athletes
 ‘Abhorrent’: Indigenous leaders slam Church for lack of accountability on residential schools
 Tulsa bishop, other Christian leaders recall 1921 race massacre
 More Catholic villagers flee as fighting escalates in Myanmar
 Nation’s oldest cathedral celebrates bicentennial
 Father Swamy tests positive for Covid
 Disappointment, anger in Tamil Nadu after Pope appoints a non-Dalit bishop

Released Tuesday, Jun. 1

 Pope strengthens criminal code in canon law
 Holy See becomes permanent observer at WHO
 In India, priest, 25 others arrested for violating Covid regulations
 Fears rising over China’s looming ‘re-education’ of Christians
 Maronite Patriarch says the innocent Lebanese people suffer from the sins of their leaders
 Myanmar security forces raid Catholic seminary, kill volunteer
 Canadian bishops express ‘deepest sorrow’ following discovery of buried remains at residential school
 US bishops’ pro-life chairman decries President Biden’s removal of Hyde Amendment from federal budget
 Prelate laments San Jose shooting
 In brief video, Pope reflects on grace of Sacrament of Matrimony
 Pope concludes month of prayer for pandemic’s end with Rosary in Vatican Gardens
 Congo: bishop appeals for support after volcanic eruption
 Cardinal Semeraro discusses work of Congregation for the Causes of Saints
 Food for all: Vatican webinar explores ways to reduce global hunger
 Papal prayer intention for June: the beauty of marriage

Released Monday, May. 31

 Secretariat of State stonewalling Pope’s orders on investment funds: report
 Kenyan bishops protest lockdown of churches
 Indonesia: police thwart would-be church bombers
 China, facing demographic pressure, eases birth-control policy
 Pope lauds team sports at audience with basketball federation
 Prime Minister Boris Johnson married in Catholic ceremony in Westminster Cathedral
 In Malawi, Catholic parish given 21 days to vacate ‘Muslim territory’
 Archbishop Cordileone supports Archbishop Aquila’s call for repentance for German synodal path
 Mali’s bishops condemn military coup
 Church in India remembers sacrifice of priests and nuns who died from Covid
 Papal tribute to late Armenian Catholic Patriarch
 Despite challenging headwinds, Vatican Radio retains its relevance and reach
 Peruvian bishops condemn mass killing by the Shining Path
 Nuncio to Mexico says sex abuse cases were ‘covered up’
 +Cardinal Cornelius Sim, 69
 Pope to hold crisis summit with Lebanon Christian heads
 Lay volunteer nurses beatified as martyrs in Spain
 Pope Francis reflects on the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity

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