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Stories for week of August 05, 2018

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Aug. 10

 Cardinal O’Malley announces investigation into Boston seminary
 Archbishop: do not forget bloodshed in Ukraine
 Chilean police raid another bishop’s office in abuse inquiry
 Pennsylvania grand-jury report again delayed
 Richard Sipe, chronicler of clerical abuse, dead at 85
 Persecution drives migration of indigenous Bangladeshis
 Survey examines why America’s ‘nones’ don’t identify with a religion
 Sting presents show on Sistine Chapel to Pope Francis
 Christians beaten, arrested during Hindu festival in Uttar Pradesh
 Pope’s message raises spirits during Indonesian rescues
 Vatican diplomat: apply St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises to indigenous rights
 Former PA chief justice: releasing clergy abuse report risks violating constitutional rights
 Food and Drug Administration signs controversial contract with fetal tissue provider
 Archbishop Sample emphasizes ‘liturgy according to the mind, heart of the Church’
 EU bishops commit to ‘full integration’ of Roma into European society
 Turkey’s non-Muslim religious communities deny ‘oppression’ claims, say they are ‘freely’ practicing religions
 Italy’s Catholics flock to the right on immigration
 English Benedictine monks hid ‘appalling sex abuse’ in schools, inquiry finds
 Archbishop Gregory: ‘we are enraged by the actions of Theodore McCarrick’
 Abuse crisis is call to new vision of priesthood, accountability, says expert
 Vatican newspaper: ‘pitiless’ media coverage of abuse scandals is one-sided but helpful
 Rocket barrage from Gaza prompts fierce retaliation by Israeli warplanes
 Benedict XVI criticized for new article on Jewish-Christian relations

Released Thursday, Aug. 9

 Argentine legislators defeat bid for elective abortion
 Cardinal Errazuriz replies to criticism on sex-abuse response
 US commission condemns detention of Iranian Christians
 9-year-old gang raped, murdered in India following family’s conversion to Christianity
 Philippine bishops urge Catholic journalists to combat ‘fake news’
 Ireland denies visas to thousands of Pakistani Christians for World Meeting of Families
 4 years after jihadist invasion, Christians return to hometown
 Pope’s Catechism revision could be quandary for US politicians
 Metuchen bishop rues McCarrick’s ‘atrocities,’ pledges independent structure for seminarians to report abuse
 Missouri bishop decries McCarrick’s deeds and ‘the silence of so many bishops’
 EU defiant in face of Trump threats over Iran trade
 Lawmakers call for transparency in insurance plans that fund abortions
 The Church should rid its supply chains of links to modern slavery, says former Vatican ambassador
 Sarajevo cardinal exhorts Europe to return to Christian roots
 Prelate calls for international peacekeeping force on Nineveh Plains
 Vatican newspaper article: Amoris Laetitia #35-37 is at heart of Pope’s thought

Released Wednesday, Aug. 8

 Orthodox churches burned, priests killed in Ethiopia’s unsettled Somali region
 California bishop bans Communion services without priest
 Young Catholics issue call for investigation of scandal, penance, and reform
 Roundup: bishops react to McCarrick scandal
 9-year phase in Catholic-Lutheran dialogue concludes
 Thousands of UK churches convert to renewable energy
 USCCB, CRS urge advocacy on behalf of girls’ education
 Christian student group sues University of Iowa
 Pope pays tribute to St. Dominic, St. Edith Stein
 Pope Francis reflects on idolatry and the golden calf
 Nearly 100 Iranian Christians in legal limbo because of Trump administration’s refugee policy
 Arson attack on Syrian Orthodox church in Sweden
 Italian bishop, Catholic press decry deaths of migrant workers
 Nicaraguan prelates lament government repression; American archbishop visits Managua
 Cardinal Cupich supports investigation into mishandling of complaints against McCarrick
 Report: Vatican rejected Nicaraguan regime’s request for meeting with Pope, Cardinal Parolin
 Nagasaki archbishop links international problems to nuclear deterrence

Released Tuesday, Aug. 7

 Russian Patriarch to meet with Patriarch of Constantinople: Ukraine tops agenda
 Chilean seminarians give haunting accounts of sexual abuse
 Cardinal Sodano sought to hide abuse documents, former Irish president says
 Vatican prelate sees ‘no grounds’ for using Veritatis Splendor to challenge Pope Francis’s teaching
 Nicaraguan bishops, citing pilgrims’ safety, will not host pre-World Youth Day events
 Postulator of Paul VI’s sainthood cause discusses late Pope’s legacy
 Pope praises Chile’s bishops for ‘decisive’ efforts against abuse
 Latin American bishops welcome Catechism death penalty revision with ‘joy in the Spirit’
 Pope offers prayers for Indonesian earthquake victims
 Franciscans reopen Holy Land museum
 Coptic Orthodox patriarch: no social media for monks
 US lay missionary physician is a reluctant hero in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
 Philippine bishops support new national ID system but are wary of abuses
 Indian bishop accused of having ‘wife,’ 18-year-old son
 In China, bishop asks priest to remove cross and sign from new church
 Nuncio, Hiroshima Catholics recall atomic bomb anniversary at memorial Mass
 Nicaraguan foreign minister visits Vatican, seeks removal of ‘unfair’ bishops from dialogue
 Pittsburgh bishop urges faithful to ‘stay close to God in prayer’ when grand jury report is released
 Fearing persecution, Afghan Christian refugees seek asylum in India
 Albany bishop calls for creation of lay commission to investigate bishops accused of abuse
 UN report: North Korea still pursuing nuclear, missile programs
 1 killed, 90 wounded by Israel in Hamas-led Gaza protests
 International Federation of Catholic Universities elects 1st woman president

Released Monday, Aug. 6

 Cardinal Wuerl proposes panel of bishops to investigate McCarrick scandal
 Egypt presses investigation into killing of Coptic bishop
 Ohio pro-life protesters file suit against city, police
 Historic cave monastery reopens in Lebanon after dispute with government resolved
 Americans far more likely to pray than those in other wealthy nations
 Peruvian cardinal calls for more open battle against corruption
 Los Angeles archbishop: Catechism is not equating capital punishment with evils of abortion, euthanasia
 Turkey’s Erdogan imposes sanctions on US officials; pastor remains under house arrest
 Lincoln diocese responds to reports of misconduct by former vocations director
 China to require national anthem, raising of flag at Mass, other religious ceremonies
 Protestant church demolished in Chennai to widen road
 Relationship with Jesus is even more important than material needs, Pope tells pilgrims
 Pope Francis pays tribute to Blessed Paul VI, the ‘Pope of modernity’
 ‘Digital transformation’ is theme of Vatican’s World Tourism Day message
 USCCB welcomes revision of Catechism text on death penalty
 US ambassador: Ortega regime is ‘virtually waging war’ against the Church
 Chile’s bishops apologize to abuse victims, pledge to cooperate with prosecutors
 ‘ISIS is not dead,’ says priest who documented genocide
 Italian nuns rescue migrant women from the streets, help them become seamstresses
 Trump proposes rollback in fuel-efficiency standards
 UN talks to end Yemen war set for September

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