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Stories for week of August 02, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Aug. 7

 Federal court halts Vermont ban on dual enrollment for students at religious high schools
 Charges dropped against Australian priest accused of stealing almost $500,000 from parish
 Catholic high school files lawsuit against California governor to reopen in the fall
 In UK, parish priests hit by Covid financial crisis
 Prayers answered: Rhode Island diocese sees decades-high number of new seminarians
 Maryland county issues 2nd order to stop Catholic, other private schools from opening
 Hong Kong Catholic diocese urges schools to promote national security education
 In Australia, Sydney parish responds to hate crime with love
 Kentucky bishop rebukes President Trump as ‘anti-life’
 Nicaragua’s latest woes put Catholic leadership in an impossible position
 Biden defends his commitment to faith following Trump comments
 ‘Racism makes a liar of God’: How the Church in the US is wrestling with the Black Lives Matter movement
 Pope extends Eastern Catholic Patriarchs’ jurisdiction over Arabian Peninsula
 USCCB calls for prayers for Lebanon, assistance for disaster victims

Released Thursday, Aug. 6

 Pope sends message of solidarity to Hiroshima on anniversary of bombing
 Brazil bishops rap president’s leadership
 Managua cathedral fire was no accident, Nicaraguan cardinal says
 Formula for Baptism cannot be altered, Vatican says
 Six lay women named to Vatican Council for Economy
 Birmingham Oratory reluctantly complies with bishop’s Communion-in-hand order
 International community is ignoring jihadist attacks in Mozambique, EU lawmaker charges
 India’s Supreme Court rejects rape-accused bishop’s petition
 Priest defends housing project stance following Los Angeles Times editorial
 Congressman calls for DOJ investigation into anti-Catholic vandalism
 Democrats ‘want to put the churches out of business,’ President Trump tells EWTN
 Philadelphia archbishop, Argentine rabbi see progress in Jewish-Catholic relations
 ‘Beirut is a devastated city,’ Lebanese cardinal says following blast
 Missouri bishops welcome Medicaid expansion
 Australian bishops issue statement on mental health
 Citing pandemic, New York extends window for abuse lawsuits
 Philippine democracy in peril, bishop warns
 In China, houses of worship forced to donate to the state or stay shut
 Catholic Charities pandemic assistance provides nearly $400M in aid, services

Released Wednesday, Aug. 5

 Pope begins new series of talks on issues raised by pandemic
 Pastor tells lector not to wear ‘Black Lives Matter’ t-shirt at Mass
 Wisconsin: Private insurers must cover transgender procedures
 British bishops renew call to abolish nuclear weapons
 Learn from St. John Vianney, Cardinal Parolin preaches at Ars
 Pope sends message of solidarity to Cardinal Brenes after attack on Managua cathedral
 Video released for August papal prayer intention
 SSPX orders staff, priests not to talk to Kansas Bureau of Investigation without attorney
 Chinese bishop denies rumor that government will demolish cathedral
 US bishops reprimand President Trump as often as they praise him
 Stop southern Kaduna killings, archbishop tells governor
 Boston archdiocese pushes back after President Trump says bomber ‘deserves death’
 ‘Reject any vaccine developed using aborted children,’ Texas bishop urges
 US House of Representative votes to block HHS conscience-protection regulations
 Kentucky bishops continue public Masses despite governor’s request for ‘pause’
 Seoul’s cardinal announces consecration of Pyongyang to Our Lady of Fatima
 Bishops from Japan, US call Catholics to work for nuclear disarmament
 Pontifical academy defends Covid document that did not mention God

Released Tuesday, Aug. 4

 Spanish layman to be #2 in Vatican economic secretariat
 Current illness not seen as life-threatening for Benedict XVI
 Philippine bishops criticize president over handling of pandemic
 ‘Let us value our national symbols,’ Dominican bishops emphasize
 Covid emergency in Holy Land
 Federal court upholds limits on street preacher at farmers’ market
 Warsaw cardinal decries ‘desecration’ of Christ statue with rainbow flag
 Jesus gives life its true meaning, Pope tells youth at Medjugorje festival
 Pope Francis urges everyone to obtain ‘pardon of Assisi’
 Christians must courageously share with others, Pope says at Angelus
 Catholic school leaders see challenging year ahead
 After challenging California officials, Catholic home for trafficked girls set to open
 Judge denies abuse claims extension in Rochester Diocese bankruptcy
 Congressional candidate denies defrauding progressive Catholic group
 Police, fire departments investigating Boston-area church fire as arson
 Primate leads tribute to John Hume
 Philadelphia Historical Commission declines to approve demolition of closed church

Released Monday, Aug. 3

 Benedict XVI seriously ill
 Papal nuncio in France to meet with women who ‘applied’ for priestly roles
 Scalfari again interviews Pope Francis
 Massachusetts city recognizes polyamorous relationships
 American on trial for blasphemy in Pakistan is assassinated in courtroom
 Liberian bishop laments attacks on political group
 Superior general challenges Jesuits to live out evangelical poverty during Ignatian Year
 August papal prayer intention: the maritime world
 US ambassador for religious liberty warns Vatican: China can’t be trusted
 Churches in Manila shut doors again
 Washington retreat center to serve as Covid quarantine site
 Italian priest named personal secretary to Pope
 Assist Catholic school students, bishops urge Congressional Black Caucus
 Bishops decry increasing insecurity in southeast Nigeria
 ‘Crazy and outrageous’: Bishop Barron rebukes Rep. Ocasio-Cortez for criticizing St. Damien statue in Capitol
 Nicaragua cathedral attacked with firebomb
 New Jersey diocese suspends payments to clergy abuse victims, citing Covid financial stress

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