Stories for week of June 09, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jun. 14

 Nuncio tells US bishops: Eucharist remains ‘place of encounter’ where Christ transforms wounded Church
 Cardinal Koch discusses ‘reformulation’ of Vatican I’s dogma on papal infallibility
 Pope, in book preface, pays tribute to the Olympics and peace
 A ‘caress’ and ‘kiss from the Church’: Cardinal Zuppi donates 80 fans to Italian prison
 Holy See calls for reopening of Gaza entry points for humanitarian assistance
 Pope to hold bilateral talks today with President Biden, leaders of 8 other nations
 Buenos Aires governor meets with Pontiff
 Vatican foundation announces conference on AI

Released Thursday, Jun. 13

 Supreme Court rejects pro-life challenge on abortion pill
 Pope issues message for World Day of the Poor
 Vatican document suggests new look at papal primacy
 Nebraska bishop writes pastoral letter on mental health
 80 years after historic meeting with Pope, Irish regiment returns to the Vatican
 Chaldean Patriarch returns to Baghdad, ending dispute with government
 Synodality should be permanent model for Church, Pope says
 Mexican bishops call on new president to ‘prioritize dialogue with everyone’
 Armenian Apostolic leader proposes Third Vatican Ecumenical Council to Pope Francis
 Vatican releases information about papal meeting with priests, including discussion of homosexuality
 Vatican newspaper draws attention to plight of Sudanese refugees
 Papal tribute to St. Anthony, renewed papal appeal for peace
 Father Martin meets with Pope Francis, who ‘showed openness and love for the LGBTQ community’

Released Wednesday, Jun. 12

 New survey: 69% of American Catholics believe in Real Presence
 Gaping deficits endanger future of CCHD
 Pope again warns against homosexual influence in clergy
 USCCB announces public session agenda for June meeting
 Honoring Lemaître, Vatican Observatory organizes conference on black holes, gravitational waves
 Vatican hosts gathering for international lay leaders on synodality, mission
 Pope, at general audience, reflects on the Holy Spirit and Scripture
 Vatican newspaper describes 2023 as annus horribilis for war
 Pope Francis to address Biden, other G7 leaders on artificial intelligence

Released Tuesday, Jun. 11

 Polish bishops weigh in on public debate on abortion
 Cardinals Müller, Schönborn: women cannot be ordained
 Another Nigerian priest kidnapped, then freed
 Vatican tightens press access to Pope’s statements
 ‘Called to the fullness of dignity’ is theme of US bishops’ Religious Freedom Week
 Pontifical academy holds conference on religion and neuroscience
 Romanian Orthodox Church declares year of pastoral care for the sick
 Family, hope, peace: papal address to new ambassadors
 Under olive tree planted as sign of peace, Pope begs God to help Holy Land
 Harmony, communion, joy: Pope encourages church choirs
 Treasure the ocean, Pope urges in message
 Vatican letter asks priests to turn to the Sacred Heart for emotional maturity
 Turkish bishops consecrate Church, nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Released Monday, Jun. 10

 Pope, Rome’s mayor confer on Jubilee preparations
 European bishops’ commission sees signal in EU elections
 Australian archbishop sees ‘lawfare’ against Christian beliefs
 Syro-Malabar leaders threaten dissident priests with excommunication
 New Vatican document to cover papal primacy
 Zelensky’s chief of staff meets with Pope Francis
 Prominent comedians to meet with Pope in ‘significant moment of intercultural dialogue’
 Be cunning and pious: papal advice to future Vatican diplomats
 Vatican foreign minister deplores Hamas attack, rues ‘execrable anti-Christian acts by Jewish extremists’
 Colombian priest brutally murdered
 Cardinal Parolin: ‘Many doubt that we can speak of a just war’
 Pope pleads: ‘Act urgently, by all means, to come to the aid of the people of Gaza’
 Papal Angelus address: ‘Jesus was a free man’

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Memorial of Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs

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Today's Memorial of Saints Cornelius (d. 253) and Cyprian (190-258) commemorates two friends in the service of Christ and his Church. Cornelius, a Roman, was the twenty-first Pope during the reign of the Emperor Gallus and Volusian. He had to oppose Novatian, the first anti-pope, who believed that apostates…

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