Stories for week of July 24, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jul. 29

 New Vatican appointments threaten sovereignty of Knights of Malta
 Pope thanks indigenous peoples for their welcome
 Indonesian government revises text after Catholic complaint
 Terrorists close off access to churches in Burkina Faso
 Federal court backs Catholic school’s right to require faithful teachers
 Papal protesters demand: ‘Rescind the doctrine’
 Vatican spokesman: Pope rejects imposition of culture
 Dobbs decision seen as boost for parental rights
 Catholic woman is opposition’s vice-presidential nominee in India
  Answer secularism with joy of Gospel, Pope exhorts priests
 Synod cannot change Church mission, Spanish bishop cautions
 Participation light in local Synod meetings

Released Thursday, Jul. 28

 Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau wants more from papal apology
 Bishop Paprocki joins critics of Father Martin
 Women’s religious orders disappearing in US
 New candor from Vatican’s ‘foreign minister’
 Pope repeats condemnation of ‘deplorable’ residential schools
 Inuits, local Catholics differ in anticipation of Pope’s arrival
 Kansas: nuns urge vote against pro-life amendment
 Myanmar: troops occupy church
 Italian priest rebuked for celebrating Mass on floating lawn chair
 At oldest Canadian pilgrimage site, Pope speaks of reconciliation

Released Wednesday, Jul. 27

 Pope reaches Quebec, meets government leaders
 Latin American bishops call for disarmament in region
 Anglican leader scraps statement confirming male-female marriage
 At native shrine, Pope calls for healing
 Chile’s bishops warn against new constitutional proposal
 We need history, Pope tells congregation in Edmonton
 English court denies parents’ appeal, allows removal of boy’s life-support
 Conservative coalition opposes ‘Respect Marriage’ act in plea to US Senate
 Luxembourg Synod calls for changes in Church teaching
 Quebec statistics show Church in decline as Pope arrives
 South Sudan: bishop decries attacks on civilians, farmers
 Vatican launches visitation of Australia’s Anglican ordinariate
 Syro-Malabar archbishop reportedly resigns in liturgical dispute

Released Tuesday, Jul. 26

 Corporate executives guilty of ‘formal cooperation’ with abortion: Bishop Paprocki
 Pakistani Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam
 Pope confirms ‘great desire’ to visit Ukraine
 Still no bodies found at reported ‘mass graves’ of residential schools
 Pope laments suffering in residential schools

Released Monday, Jul. 25

 Pope, in Canada, rues ‘disastrous error’ of residential schools
 Syro-Malabar priests defend archbishop, fear Vatican will force resignation
 Former Vatican bank boss loses appeal; conviction affirmed
 Terrorist attack on Syrian church
 Cardinal Parolin: Pope Francis in Canada to embrace indigenous peoples
 Be ‘artisans of the revolution of tenderness,’ Pope tells grandparents, elderly
 Italy faces ‘crucial choices for the life of the country,’ Pope tells Italian president
 Abortion a ‘human rights issue’ more than a religious issue, Archbishop Naumann says
 Thieves stole Precious Blood relic; it reemerged at detective’s door
 Priest reports that blockade of Tigray harms Church’s humanitarian response
 War and peace: Ukraine ambassador sees vital role for Vatican
 Church protests India’s apathy toward coastal erosion
 USCCB action alert: Stop the Respect for Marriage Act
 Vatican official chides East African bishops on abuse reporting

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