Catholic Culture Overview
Catholic Culture Overview

Stories for week of August 11, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Aug. 16

 Buffalo diocese hit with RICO suit
 Woman sues Houston archdiocese over ‘lay exorcism’
 Cardinal Sean Brady turns 80, becomes ineligible for conclave
 ‘Is this still the Catholic Church?’: Chinese priests take ‘formation course’ after Sino-Vatican agreement
 Monk found murdered in Lebanese monastery
 Sudanese bishop says country is fragile, future unclear
 Pittsburgh diocese cancels parish festival after receiving ‘disturbing letter’
 ‘I know words mean very little without action,’ Erie bishop says on anniversary of grand jury report
 LCWR calls on Trump to stop ‘divisive and polarizing rhetoric’
 South Carolina bishop says sexual abuse allegations against him are ‘provably false’
 Apostolic Penitentiary issues note on inviolability of Confession, confidentiality of spiritual direction
 Church in Kerala responds to flood emergency
 After 10 years of Boko Haram violence, Nigerians crave peace
 On 50th anniversary of Battle of the Bogside, Northern Ireland bishop reflects on ecumenism, Brexit
 4 more allegations against former Cheyenne bishop made in past year, Missouri diocesan official says
 Proclaim and rejoice: Pope Francis reflects on the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Assumption
 Lawsuit alleges retired Albany bishop sexually abused a teenage boy
 Planned Parenthood to withdraw from Title X, unless court intervenes
 New Pax Christi presidents look to elevate Church’s nonviolence teachings

Released Wednesday, Aug. 14

 Federal court protects Christian women’s shelter from Anchorage transgender law
 Philippine president declares Blessed Virgin’s nativity a civil holiday
 Archbishop Cordileone asks: ‘Is it really possible to retrieve a sense of common decency?’
 Pope Francis, Los Angeles mayor discuss climate change, immigration
 774 patients euthanized in Ontario during 1st 6 months of 2019
 Singapore archbishop calls for new generation of leaders to confront cultural changes
 Church in Peru opens South America’s 1st pediatric cancer hospital
 Sri Lanka’s Christians admired for nonviolent response to bombings
 Floods in India have left ‘death, devastation and a bleak future,’ bishop says
 Murder of parish secretary is latest in series of anti-Catholic incidents in Ivory Coast
 Vatican prefect encourages African Catholic journalists in their efforts for peace
 1 year after bridge collapse, Pope writes to people of Genoa
 Pope remembers Cardinal Obeso as ‘selfless pastor’
 Archbishop, Catholic Relief Services object to spending freeze on some foreign aid

Released Tuesday, Aug. 13

 Scottish Church honors Catholics who kept faith under persecution
 Author of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ enters Catholic Church
 Philippine prelate decries Catholic silence over attacks
 Buddhist monks assault Christian in Sri Lanka
 Bishops of southern Africa issue statement on sexual abuse
 ‘Africa’s problems are by choice,’ leading prelate says
 Mexico City archdiocesan newspaper sees xenophobic ‘culture of hatred’ in United States
 ‘Treat us like citizens of Pakistan, equal to others,’ cardinal pleads
 Federal appeals court backs Chicago cardinal in lawsuit filed by former music director
 Archbishop Gomez: ‘With El Paso a line has been crossed in our nation’
 Retired Chicago celebrity priest accused of sex abuse in 1970s
 Don’t lend credence to alleged Texas Marian apparitions, bishop says
 Bishops, mainline Protestant leaders condemn ICE raids in Mississippi
 Local bishop appeals for ‘constructive dialogue’ to avoid conflict over Jammu and Kashmir
 US bishops urge Trump administration to rescind new rule drastically limiting asylum

Released Monday, Aug. 12

 Mexican Cardinal Obeso Rivera dead at 87
 Papal condolences for monsoon flood victims in India
 Cardinal Pell criticizes ‘low quality’ working document for Amazon Synod
 Pope pays tribute to indigenous peoples
 The words ‘God’ and ‘Bible’ banned in Chinese textbooks
 Filipino Catholics unfazed by terror threats against churches
 1,000 Catholics march in Hong Kong against extradition law
 Ukrainian president meets with Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
 Pakistani bishops ‘deeply concerned’ by India’s cancellation of Kashmir’s autonomy
 Pope Francis casts his eyes to Asia for potential papal trips
 With Venezuela in a free fall, its bishops call out the government
 In Mozambique, bishop slams government over jihadist attacks
 Church in India observes ‘Black Day’ to protest discrimination against Christian, Muslim Dalits
 Pope Francis issues new statutes for Vatican Bank
 Pope recalls 70th anniversary of Geneva Conventions
 ‘Jesus recalls His disciples to continual vigilance,’ Pope tells pilgrims

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