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Stories for week of July 01, 2018

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jul. 6

 Vatican official questions priests’ role in preparing couples of marriage
 Bishop Paprocki dissents from USCCB on Supreme Court ruling on union dues
 Archbishop Wilson will not resign, despite legal conviction
 Open hearts to migrants, Pope pleads
 Wisconsin court rules against Marquette, for suspended conservative professor
 Pope urges governments to curb greenhouse gases
 French priest, prominent in debate on homosexuality, barred from ministry
 Lebanon: Maronite bishops question new naturalization policy
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ sees opportunity for peace in Korea
 Bethlemen’s pastor reports Christians disappearing
 German bishop invites all Protestant spouses to Communion
 Clerics seek to block release of grand-jury report on abuse in Pennsylvania

Released Thursday, Jul. 5

 Italian layman to head Vatican Secretariat for Communications
 Australian archbishop bars dissident Jesuit from speaking
 Report finds severe violence against Christians in India
 Four lay people moved toward beatification
 Schedule released for Pope’s September trip to Baltic nations
 Cardinal Parolin underlines importance of Laudato Si’
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ meets with South Korea’s President Moon
 2 Indian nuns arrested on charges of selling children
 Theme of American Missionary Congress: ‘America on a mission, the Gospel is joy!’
 ‘The educational system penalizes religious education,’ Sri Lankan cardinal charges
 Church in El Salvador prepares for Blessed Óscar Romero’s canonization
 Eritrean archbishop describes new door of peace with Ethiopia as a miracle
 Madagascar’s new cardinal focuses on peace and the Gospel
 6,000 attend Focolare’s international youth festival in Manila
 Pope Francis assures Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of his support
 Vatican: ‘real negotiation has begun again’ with China’s government
 Middle East’s Christian population has fallen from 20% to 4% in last century, cardinal notes
 Korean bishop criticizes those who oppose Yemeni asylum seekers
 Nicaragua: police, paramiltary forces surround parish, detain priests

Released Wednesday, Jul. 4

 Most French dioceses will not ordain priests this year
 Al Gore lauds Pope Francis in Vatican News interview
 Nigerian bishops demand president’s resignation as violence continues
 English bishop sees continued risk that hospitals hasten deaths
 New Vatican document explains role of consecrated virgins
 Pope’s prayer intention for July: priests and their pastoral ministy

Released Tuesday, Jul. 3

 Sistine Chapel Choir is focus of financial-misconduct probe
 ARCIC says Catholics, Anglicans can learn from each other
 India: nun accuses bishop of rape
 Australian archbishop given one-year sentence for concealing abuse
 Former bishop molested boys, Cheyenne diocese reveals
 Pope suspends Wednesday public audiences for July
 UK court upholds ban on abortion-clinic prayer vigils
 3,000-year-old sculpted head found in Israel turns into riddle for scholars
 President Trump on abortion: ‘maybe someday it will be [up] to the states’
 Delegation of US bishops visits Mexican border, calls for urgent reunification of children
 2 terrorist attacks in Mali
 63 migrants feared dead in new shipwreck off Libyan coast
 Vatican Secretary of State travels to Serbia, says talk of papal visit is premature
 Missionary in Bangladesh discusses ministry to youth, workers
 Pope prays for boys trapped in Thai cave
 Cardinal promotes reconciliation between Ethiopia, Eritrea
 Pope stands with Nicaragua’s bishops in demanding democracy
 Syriac Orthodox Church denies rumored move of headquarters to Lebanon
 Chaldean patriarch, on behalf of fellow cardinals, pledges joyful fidelity
 In Bari, Francis to extend his push for an ‘ecumenism of friendship’
 Mexican bishops urge collaboration after election of leftist López Obrador

Released Monday, Jul. 2

 German archbishop approves Communion for Protestant spouses
 Madrid archdiocese cautions against government plan to exhume Franco’s remains
 Vatican City still has no formal sex-abuse policy
 Pope joins new cardinal for dinner with 280 of Rome’s poor
 Canada: man faces ‘hate crime’ prosecution for Christian flyers on homosexuality
 Pope Francis: Jesus is more than a dreamer or revolutionary—He is Son of the living God
 New Melbourne archbishop vows to ‘right the grievous wrongs of the past’
 Toronto cardinal: ‘we are facing an assault on our faith’ from ‘grievously, ferociously secular people’
 Pope prays for peace in Nicaragua, Syria
 Turn to Jesus for healing and receive new life, Pope tells faithful
 Official explains Vatican media strategy: let the Pope be himself
 Ukrainian Catholic leader denounces violence against Romani
 Priest murdered in Central African Republic
 Prince William visits Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre
 Philippine bishops deny they are plotting to destabilize government
 Philippine president should ‘repent and relent,’ bishop says
 Vietnamese priest’s brave protest goes viral
 Christ’s Blood is the source of salvation, Pope tells Precious Blood communities
 Bolivia’s president meets with Pope Francis
 Vatican newspaper laments state of EU

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