Stories for week of July 18, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jul. 23

 Belarus: churches under pressure to support embattled regime
 Pope still recovering from surgery, will not celebrate Mass on Sunday
 Polish bishop cleared after abuse investigation
 Multiple arrests under anti-conversion law in Uttar Pradesh
 Canadian police probing 15 suspicious church fires
 Background: 1st World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly (July 25)
 USCCB issues renewed plea for action on abortion funding
 Cuban-American bishop deplores Communist regime’s actions
 Sisters of Charity deny involvement with Biden town hall at Catholic college
 In Indonesia, bishops support government’s tough anti-Covid restrictions
 Religious and political persecution continue in Turkmenistan
 Oregon senator weighs in on data tracking and former USCCB general secretary
 Cardinal Hummes calls for action on implementing Amazon synod
 Washington’s Cardinal Gregory calls for immigration reform
 New Hampshire bishop accused of abusing teenage boy in 1980s
 Pelosi defends taxpayer-funded abortion while citing Catholic faith; Archbishop Cordileone responds
 ‘Profound sorrow’: Cardinal Burke issues statement on Pope’s restrictions on traditional Latin Mass

Released Thursday, Jul. 22

 Venezuela’s Maduro rips Vatican ‘compendium of hatred’
 Russian Patriarch dedicates new cathedral to Our Lady of Kazan
 Kidnapped sister in Democratic Republic of the Congo is freed
 1st Catholic monastery in Tajikistan
 US bishops express solidarity with Cuban people
 New York Times tech columnist ponders data privacy, resignation of USCCB general secretary
 To Church’s dismay, Veracruz state approves bill decriminalizing abortion
 Pennsylvania high court bars clergy assault case
 Coptic Orthodox church burned down near Vancouver
 US bishops’ petition to preserve Hyde amendment surpasses 130,000 signatures
 Nigeria has lost its soul, bishops tell Buhari
 Congressional testimony highlights China’s persecution of religious believers
 +Father Luigi Martinelli, 66

Released Wednesday, Jul. 21

 Citing Covid, Tokyo archdiocese asks Olympic athletes to stay away from churches
 Private party offered surveillance on suspected priests
 Cardinal Becciu files defamation lawsuits to counter fraud charges
 Indian Jesuits brace for fallout of US pullout in Afghanistan
 Minnesota governor restricts conversion therapy
 California law barring ‘misgendering’ of long-term care residents violates 1st Amendment, court rules
 Traditional Latin Mass movement sows division, Archbishop Di Noia says
 Cardinal Zen defends traditional Latin Mass, criticizes ‘anti-Ratzinger lords of the Vatican’
 Program announced for papal journey to Hungary, Slovakia
 Unmarked graves near residential school included ‘other Roman Catholic faith-goers, indigenous and not,’ First Nations chief says
 Father Martin: ‘Anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice’
 Beatification cause opened for Neocatechumenal Way co-founder
 Catholics in France divided on Covid vaccine ‘health pass’
 Hundreds of alumni criticize lawsuit against Florida Catholic school
 Catholic university in Cincinnati confirms President Biden town hall as criticism mounts

Released Tuesday, Jul. 20

 USCCB general secretary resigns amid charges of sexual misconduct
 Most US bishops allow Latin Masses to continue
 New Mexico diocese responds to lawmaker barred from Communion
 Germany’s Cardinal Marx apologizes in parish for abuse ‘failures’
 Church of England’s safeguarding blunders could cause more deaths, coroner warns
 US bishops’ migration chairman urges Congress to act after court ruling on DACA
 Irish bishops decry UK ‘amnesty’ for Troubles
 South African cardinal urges prayers for his nation
 2 months after arrest, whereabouts of Chinese bishop, priests unknown
 Federal appeals court again rules against football coach dismissed for on-field prayer
 President Biden issues statement for Eid al-Adha
 Toronto, Calgary Catholics join Saskatchewan in fundraising drive for residential school survivors
 Papal visit to Slovakia comes during important anniversary year for Ruthenian Catholics
 In Australia, March for Life targets ‘voluntary assisted dying’ bill
 Latin American bishops face unrest and division in Cuba, Colombia, and Nicaragua

Released Monday, Jul. 19

 Mob violence closes emergency room of Catholic hospital in India
 Lebanese prelate sees nation as ‘sheep without shepherd’
 Italian bank takeover attempt to figure in Vatican financial trial?
 Bishops respond cautiously to papal directive on Latin Mass
 ‘Compassion is born from contemplation,’ Pope tells pilgrims
 ‘The poor and the excluded are your teachers’: papal message to Franciscans
 Southwest Illinois bishop talks of Catholic Church’s ‘racial divide’
 Woman caught on video destroying statues outside Queens church
 New Mexico lawmaker says bishop denied him Communion
 Los Angeles school district kept millions in Title I funds from Catholic schools, probe finds
 1st-person accounts of religious repression punctuate summit
 Texas bishops: Gov. Abbott, don’t shut down our ministry to care for migrant children
 Papua bishops demand freedom for asylum seekers, 8 years after Australian law
 Save Nigerians from starvation, archbishop urges political leaders
 Cardinal Bo appeals for unity against Covid in Myanmar
 In Delhi, Syro-Malabar Catholics pray amidst the rubble of a demolished church

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Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs

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The Church commemorates the Optional Memorial of Saint Augustine Zhao Rong (1746-1815). He was a Chinese diocesan priest who was martyred with his 119 other Chinese Catholics. Among their number was an eighteen-year-old boy, Chi Zhuzi, who cried out to those who had just cut off his right arm and were…

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