Stories for week of June 02, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jun. 7

 Manila archbishop suspends priest after scuffle with bishop
 Archbishop Gänswein to become papal nuncio in Baltic region?
 Pope offers ‘condo catechesis’
 Brazilian finance minister meets with Pontiff
 Papal encouragement for 2 women’s religious orders
 Leftists end occupation of Vatican’s nunciature in Colombia
 EU bishops’ commission urges vote for parties that will ‘build a better Europe’
 Vatican News features Rupnik mosaic for Feast of Sacred Heart
 Schedule released for papal visit to Trieste
 Theologians begin work on instrumentum laboris for October Synod session
 Leading Italian cardinal decries gambling
 Cardinal Gambetti part of Vatican sting operation that led to ex-employee’s arrest

Released Thursday, Jun. 6

 Ukrainian Catholic priests held in Russian labor camp?
 Retired archbishop blames Cardinal Fernandez for turnover in Argentine archdiocese
 Brother of missing teenager rips Vatican investigators
 Clergy need continuing formation, Pope says
 Senate blocks passage of sweeping ‘Right to Contraception’ bill
 Vatican arrests ex-employee for trying to sell Bernini manuscript
 On D-Day anniversary, Pope notes fears of new wider war
 US bishops, other Catholic leaders weigh in on Farm Bill, deplore possible cuts to SNAP
 Vatican foreign minister laments attacks on religious freedom, calls on governments to have ‘detached neutrality’
 Jürgen Moltmann, leading Protestant theologian, dies at 98
 Vatican announces program for papal visit to Rome’s Capitoline Hill
 Pope meets with members of LGBTQ+ community, Vatican newspaper emphasizes
 Vatican newspaper publishes defense of Fiducia Supplicans
 Pope sends medicine to Ukraine, with funds donated by Taiwan

Released Wednesday, Jun. 5

 Pope writing document on Sacred Heart devotion
 Vatican inquiry clears New Zealand’s Cardinal Dew
 Pope recalls peaceful liberation of Rome in 1944
 US bishops’ conference protests Biden plan to tighten border controls
 Court finds discrimination against Catholic students in Colorado
 Jubilee Year is time to act on global debt, Pope suggests
 Teamwork is key, Pope tells Croatian soccer players
 Vatican newspaper laments plight of indigenous people threatened by rising sea levels
 Cardinal Zuppi, papal peace envoy, says his mission continues
 Renewed papal appeal for peace in Sudan, elsewhere; warning against escalation of conflicts
 Pope, at general audience, reflects on the freedom of the Holy Spirit
 Pope takes ‘great interest’ in Venezuela, leading bishops say
 Pakistani government invites Pope Francis to visit nation
 Parish priest in California to lead Church in Tuvalu
 Peruvian cardinal sees Church in Amazon as model for worldwide Church

Released Tuesday, Jun. 4

 Hong Kong cardinal urges forgiveness for Tienanmen Square massacre
 Africans quit United Methodist Church over same-sex marriage
 Christians will not vote in contested Syrian elections, prelate says
 Israeli Christians feel pinch as war discourages pilgrimages
 Pope encourages homosexual rejected from seminary
 Over 1 million attend celebration for feast of Ugandan martyrs
 Papal encouragement for Italian Christian Workers’ Associations
 Struggle for justice for Aboriginal peoples, Australian bishops’ conference urges
 Cardinal Felix dies at 91
 Journalist explores new DDF members’ views on homosexuality
 Italian newspaper’s leaders meet with Pope, discuss Ukraine
 Leading Syrian Orthodox prelate visits Vatican
 Slovak president meets with Pontiff
 Parents are ‘protagonists and primary architects’ of children’s education, Pope writes

Released Monday, Jun. 3

 See migrants as image of God’s People, Pope recommends
 Time to speak out against renegade Bishop Stowe?
 Father Martin’s new book has preface by Pope Francis
 Pontiff joins Corpus Christi procession for first time in years
 Pakistani Christian dies from mob-violence injuries
 Papal praise for Focolare interfaith efforts
 Pontiff encourages inquiries on ‘sustainable finance’
 Corpus Christi procession is not sign of pride but invitation, Pope preaches
 US Ambassador to Holy See to step down
 Upcoming papal document on Sacred Heart of Jesus
 Pontiff, international organization leader discuss global financial structure
 Pope allegedly tells young Roman priests ‘gossip is a women’s thing’
 Pope to commemorate 10th anniversary of meeting with Israeli, Palestinian leaders
 Vatican diplomat: Health is a universal right, not a consumer good
 Pastoral care of elderly in Italian dioceses in insufficient, Archbishop Paglia warns
 Vatican foreign minister warns of hyper-individualized, Hobbesian society
 New Argentine ambassador lauds Pontiff, hopes for papal visit to homeland

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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent; Opt. Mem. of St. Patrick, Bishop & Confessor (Solemnity: AUS, IRE; Feast: NZ, Scot., Wales)

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