Stories for week of June 16, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jun. 21

 Notre Dame alumni, students urge rescinding of award to Biden
 Pope wants to visit China, Cardinal Parolin confirms
 Italy’s Meloni blocks Biden’s push for abortion at G7
 Be true to yourselves, Pope urges students
 TLM scheduled for National Eucharistic Congress
 Southern Baptists explain opposition to IVF
 President Biden pledges ‘national strategy’ to counter ‘scourge’ of Islamophobia
 A decade after ISIS advance, churches are ‘filled again’ in Iraq
 Korean Catholics mark day of prayer for reconciliation between North, South
 Church in US needs culturally sensitive safeguarding training, expert says
 USCCB committee chairman highlights ‘urgent need’ to promote refugees’ dignity, rights
 Cardinal Parolin warns against credulous faith in technology, ‘delirium of self-sufficiency’
 Do not be indifferent to refugees, Pope urges
 Vatican newspaper draws attention to ‘dead lagoon’ in Mexico

Released Thursday, Jun. 20

 Russia’s absence limited Ukraine peace conference: Cardinal Parolin
 Canadian Catholic hospital faces suit for refusing euthanasia
 Pope meets leaders of World Lutheran Federation
 Vatican advances six candidates toward beatification
 Pope encourages research on origin of universe
 Archbishop Vigano, charged with schism, defiant
 Spanish newspaper: Jesuits covered up crimes of priest who abused more than 100 girls
 Dueling federal court rulings on EEOC abortion mandate
 USCCB committee chairman warns against political violence
 Wives, mothers of Ukrainian POWs meet with Pontiff
 Members of Council of Cardinals hear presentations from women
 3 young Buenos Aires priests named bishops
 Papal appeal for fraternal openness to refugees

Released Wednesday, Jun. 19

 Bishop Paprocki explains bid to ‘sunset’ CCHD
 Pope recalls slain Ukrainian solider in call for peace
 FBI questions whistleblower nurse on illegal ‘transgender’ treatment for children
 Vatican hosts conference on fighting surrogacy
 USCCB pro-life chairman: Supreme Court ruling does not change facts about abortion pills
 No accounts of extraterrestrial life in Vatican Archives, official says
 Nearly 40% of world’s permanent deacons serve in US
 Vatican conference explores youth ministry promotion, highlights singer’s Manifesto for Change
 International Theological Commission drafting document on First Council of Nicaea
 Papal tweet warns against hate speech
 Israeli hostage’s mother praises Pope’s ‘global vision of suffering’
 Vatican finance inspector received 123 suspicious activity reports in 2023
 Pope, at general audience, reflects on the Psalms as ‘symphony of prayer’

Released Tuesday, Jun. 18

 US bishops win partial victory in suit to block Biden abortion rule
 Argentine archbishop decries political chants during Mass
 Spanish nuns face excommunication for schism
 Another Nigerian priest kidnapped
 Welcome the seed of God’s Word, and be generous sowers, Pope tells pilgrims
 Papal appeal for end to Congo violence that has produced ‘many’ Christian martyrs
 Papal tweet deplores ‘poisonous’ culture that discards the elderly
 ‘Do not look at your navel,’ Pope tells Communion and Liberation leader
 Another papal meeting with Argentine political figure
 World Food Program director meets with Pontiff
 Archbishop Paglia pays tribute to Jérôme Lejeune, discusses Pontifical Academy for Life’s ‘new phase’
 The environment should be ‘at the center of your attention,’ Pope tells CEOs
 Ukrainian Catholic leader travels to Kharkiv, appeals for international assistance
 Vatican prelate says Church should be voice of voiceless refugees
 Leading Italian prelate makes solidarity visit to Holy Land
 Holy See calls for urgent climate action and migrant protection

Released Monday, Jun. 17

 ‘Non-binary’ leader chosen for German Synodal Committee
 Al Kresta, radio host, dead at 72
 Synodality seen as unlikely approach to Christian unity
 San Diego diocese files for bankruptcy for 2nd time
 Parolin, at summit, lauds Ukrainian bid for peace talkss
 British financier accuses Pope of illegal wiretapping
 Council of Cardinals meeting this week
 Syro-Malabar liturgical disputes flare anew; police called to prevent violence
 President Biden, Pope Francis discuss world conflicts
 Pope swaps jokes with comedy stars at Vatican
 Vatican Bank reports net profit of €30.6 million in 2023
 Father Michał Rapacz, slain by Communists, beatified in Kraków
 Theologians finish work on instrumentum laboris for October Synod session
 ‘A memorable meeting’: Cabo Verde’s president meets with Pontiff
 Persecution has led to evangelization, Equatorial Guinea’s leading prelate says
 Pope, at G7 summit, calls for ban on lethal autonomous weapons
 Recap of US bishops’ spring meeting in Louisville

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