Stories for week of July 28, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Aug. 2

 Cardinal Hollerich warns against ‘lobbying’ on women’s ordination
 Anti-Christian incidents on the rise in Israel
 Turkey’s Erdogan speaks to Pope, urges ‘unified response’ to Olympic blasphemy
 NY archdiocesan official: Republican Party betrays pro-life principles
 Lutheran-Orthodox statement calls for recitation of the Creed without the Filioque
 Pope creates new Angolan diocese
 New Ohio law accommodates students’ religious beliefs
 Papal adviser, head of Microsoft talk ethics and AI
 Vatican issues clarification on Holy Doors during 2025 Jubilee
 Retired FBI agent to chair US bishops’ National Review Board

Released Thursday, Aug. 1

 Pope sends support to Father Martin’s conference at Georgetown
 Pope visits amusement park
 Omaha archbishop flatly denies abuse charge
 Cardinal Müller investigated for financial irregularities at DDF
 Pro-life activists sentenced for FACE violations
 Vatican spokesman cautiously backs Venezuelan bishops’ stand on election
 Lead Vatican City judge under investigation for allegedly favoring the Mafia
 Art center founded by Father Rupnik pushes back on removal of artwork
 Court backs Ohio school’s ban on ‘non-preferred’ pronouns
 Cardinal Hollerich sees current synodality as return to ‘the original Church, the primitive Church’
 Retired Vatican archivist takes dim view of postconciliar era

Released Wednesday, Jul. 31

 Trump raps Democrats as anti-Catholic
 Papal prayer intention for August: political leaders
 Priest warns of ‘apocalyptic language’ in political campaigns
 Venezuelan bishops join protests of election fraud
 Turkey’s President Erdogan decries Olympic blasphemy
 Pope encourages altar servers on Rome pilgrimage
 Cincinnati pastor resigns under parishioners’ pressure
 Abuse scandal in Peru diocese formerly led by Vatican cardinal
 Federal appeals court sides with Catholic employee fired for refusing Covid vaccine
 Leading African cardinal says evangelization is ‘absolutely necessary and urgent’
 Vatican newspaper ignores Ecumenical Patriarchate’s condemnation of Olympic parody of Last Supper
 USCCB action alert: ‘Now is the time to urge your Senators to strengthen the Child Tax Credit’
 UN General Assembly president meets with Pope, laments religious persecution
 Ecumenical Patriarch writes foreword to book by Ukrainian Catholic leader
 Holy Land bishops deplore killing of young soccer players, renew call for peace
 Polarization threatens religious liberty, but commitment to truth is the antidote, says US bishops’ committee head

Released Tuesday, Jul. 30

 Italian bishop, praised by Pope Francis, denies abuse cover-up
 Maine priest laicized, years after suspension
 Altar-boy pilgrimage arrives in Rome
 Iowa’s heartbeat law takes effect
 Ecumenical Patriarchate denounces Olympic parody of Last Supper
 Vatican newspaper ignores international reaction to Last Supper parody
 Nicaraguan regime cancels diocese’s priestly ordinations, banishes administrator
 Pope Francis names 2 DDF officials bishops—and bypasses a #2 prelate
 Federal agencies distort truth, threaten religious freedom with gender ideology rules, bishops warn

Released Monday, Jul. 29

 Synod organizers take online poll, delete results
 Olympic organizers defend blasphemous opening show
 Long-term woes seen for Vatican budget
 Vatican investments yield €45 million profit for 2023
 Pope rues abandonment of the elderly
 Omaha archbishop accused of abuse in St. Louis lawsuit
 Bishops raise concern about subpoena power for Native American boarding school investigation
 Czech cardinal laments Vatican silence on Chinese human rights abuses
 Pope Francis: Weapons production contradicts ‘spirit of brotherhood of the Olympic Games’
 Bishops around the world blast Last Supper parody at Paris Olympics
 ‘Offering, giving thanks, and sharing’: papal reflection on the miracle of the loaves and fishes

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Wednesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop & Doctor; Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin & Doctor; Ember Wednesday

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Today the Church celebrates two Optional Memorials: St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor (1542-1621) was born in Montepulciano, Italy, and died in Rome. The son of noble parents, he entered the Society of Jesus, finishing his theological studies at Louvain, Belgium. His services to the Church…

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