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Stories for week of July 11, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jul. 16

 European Court says Russia violated human rights treaty in refusing to register same-sex unions
 Uttar Pradesh wants to impose 2-child limit
 Chhattisgarh: police instructed to monitor Christian missionaries
 Pope Francis restricts celebration of traditional Latin Mass [News/analysis]
 Cuban bishops call for dialogue as island reels from protests
 Pennsylvania bishops lift general dispensation from Sunday Mass obligation
 California cathedral unveils $12.6M shrine to Our Lady of La Vang
 Connecticut diocese files for bankruptcy
 Employer was wrong to fire researcher critical of gender ideology, British tribunal rules
 Pope ‘deeply affected’ by floods in Germany
 Covid takes toll on Catholic clergy in hard-hit countries

Released Thursday, Jul. 15

 Vatican now claims ‘most virtuous’ financial safeguards [News/Analysis]
 National Catholic Reporter calls for mandatory vaccination in Catholic churches, colleges
 Spanish court rules government lacked authority for lockdown
 Baton Rouge diocese: masks mandatory for unvaccinated in Catholic schools
 Investment manager talked Vatican into fraudulent scheme, prosecutor charges
 Coptic Pope sees ‘global powers’ stronger than governments
 Italian con men arrested; pretended to have access to Vatican investments
 Australian priest found guilty of 25 abuse charges
 ‘A teen was accused of abuse inside Vatican City. Powerful church figures helped him become a priest.’
 Last of 5 Catholic hostages freed in Mali
 Parish vandalized in Oregon
 Refusal to receive Covid vaccination is a sin, leading Russian Orthodox official says
 Fire at Michigan parish under investigation
 Papal prayer, blessing for new Franciscan minister general
 Papal prayer for Iraqi hospital fire victims
 Pope pays tribute to Congo’s Cardinal Monsengwo, ‘a great figure’
 VA to offer transgender surgery to veterans
 Cuban-American bishops voice support for protestors
 Bishop chairmen respond to extreme abortion push in appropriations bill

Released Wednesday, Jul. 14

 Lay group decries mandatory vaccination at Jesuit university
 Italian senate moves forward on ‘homophobia’ bill despite Vatican concern
 German Catholic Church lost over 220,000 faithful in 2020
 Pope leaves hospital, returns to Vatican
 Retired Buffalo auxiliary bishop named in new abuse lawsuit
 Vancouver archbishop reinstates Sunday Mass obligtation
 Sri Lanka cardinal wants action against former president, prime minster over Easter bombings
 More than 160 unmarked graves found at site of former residential school
 Father Altman removed from ministry by Wisconsin bishop
 Church vandalized in Saskatchewan
 Persecution worsens for Christians in post-coup Myanmar, experts say
 Brazil’s bishops back investigation of country’s Covid vaccine purchases
 EEOC chairwoman unilaterally issues gender guidelines
 Franciscans elect Italian as 121st successor to St. Francis of Assisi
 Archbishop Gomez: continued prayers for Pope’s recovery
 US bishops welcome moratorium on federal executions

Released Tuesday, Jul. 13

 Venezuelan bishops decry human-rights violations
 Olympic athletes will be barred from Catholic churches in Tokyo
 Papal condolences for victims of hospital fire in Iraq
 Cuban police drag priest through streets
 Vatican backs off prediction on Pope’s release from hospital
 Diocese of Rochester: Bankruptcy judge rejects jury-trial motion, insurance settlement
 Amid Catholic opposition, states are legalizing composting of human remains
 Cardinal Tobin, Archbishop Lori urge faithful to petition Congress on Hyde amendment
 Report finds 22% of Americans are Catholic; rise of the religiously unaffiliated slows
 Christian group calls for free election amid rare protests in Cuba
 Boston College faces fury over denied vaccine exemptions
 Catholic Social Services trailer set on fire in Nebraska
 Nun kidnapped in DR Congo
 Descendants of enslaved people join dig on former Jesuit plantation
 Cardinal Cupich writes of ‘underlying spiritual crisis’ in Chicago’s violence
 President Biden’s new LGBTQI+ envoy said Catholic teaching on gender ‘fuels hate’
 USCCB issues action alert on infrastructure legislation

Released Monday, Jul. 12

 Pope’s hospital stay extended
 Appeals court: Chicago parish free to dismiss homosexual music director
 Congo’s Cardinal Monsengwo dead at 81
 Former Vatican finance overseer doubled as consultant to Secretariat of State
 Christians lead pro-democracy rallies in Cuba
 Pope plans to attend UN climate-change conference in November
 Church demolished by authorities in Delhi
 Virginia priest-blogger loses Vatican appeal
 Priest slams ‘pitiful’ lack of Catholic fundraising for residential school survivors
 Catholic church goes up in flames in northern Alberta
 Kidnapped Maiduguri priest regains freedom
 Pope Francis leads Angelus from hospital balcony
 ‘Institute for the Catechism’ aims to overcome modern challenges to effective catechesis
 Pilgrimages to Holy Land resume as Covid restrictions diminish
 Lebanon’s delicate religious balance at risk amid ongoing crisis
 In India, a tribal Christian joins the Modi cabinet
 Family loses appeal in lawsuit over priest’s funeral remarks
 Jihadists attack Christians in Niger
 Pope calls for an end to the spiral of violence in Haiti

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