Stories for week of August 30, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Sep. 4

 Cardinal Bo issues 10-point election appeal
 Merkel, leading German bishop discuss pandemic
 Churches may be sued for hostile work environment, federal judge rules
 Trump administration asks Supreme Court to reinstate abortion pill rule
 Holy See, in letter to Australian bishops, affirms inviolability of Confession
 European bishops issue appeal on behalf of archbishop’s return to Belarus
 Refrain from saying that voting for Biden is a mortal sin, Father Martin advises priests
 Vatican Secretary of State addresses European scientists on humanity, environment, and technology
 Late Dutch cardinal tried to hold Church together during turbulent times
 Conversion of humanity necessary to heal the earth, Pope tells ecological experts
 Philippine bishops encourage participation in Season of Creation
 US bishops announce emergency collection for natural disasters

Released Thursday, Sep. 3

 German bishop raps ‘synodal way’ statement on women’s role
 Denver priest faces discipline for telling faithful to ignore emergency orders
 Kenyan bishops: close down abortion clinics
 Kenya’s religious leaders call for accountability in the use of Covid funds
 Women take to pulpits in German diocese
 Another Pakistani Christian accused of blasphemy
 Hindu-led inquiry blames Indian Christians for lynching of Hindu priests
 Comrade Duch, the only Khmer Rouge leader to have asked for forgiveness, has died
 Judge issues blistering injunction against federal coronavirus aid rule for private schools
 Texas renews court effort to ban dismemberment abortion
 Continuity in particularity: Cardinal Parolin, in new book, looks at Pope Francis, Benedict XVI
 Polish bishops concerned by rise in acts of desecration
 Belarusian bishops appeal for blocked archbishop’s safe return
 Zimbabwean bishops hope their criticism of government stirs national dialogue
 US bishops issue Labor Day statement: ‘Rebuilding a Dignified Post-COVID World’
 Pope issues extraordinary appeal for Lebanon, asks all to pray and fast on September 4
 Theme of Pope’s general audience: Solidarity and the virtue of faith

Released Wednesday, Sep. 2

 Planned Parenthood’s election-year campaign to promote abortion
 Hong Kong cardinal: priests must ‘watch our language’
 Benedictine monks leaving historic English abbey
 German bishops decry demonstration against lockdown
 Judge denies request that would have allowed 3 Christian schools to reopen in Oregon
 In Lebanon, Christians defy land-grabbers
 Israeli archeologists unearth 1300-year-old church near Mount of Transfiguration
 Pope doesn’t have a ‘Stalinist plan’ for Church reform, Vatican official says
 Wisconsin bishops to announce end of dispensation from Sunday Mass
 In Victoria, assisted suicide deaths explode
 In Oregon, 2 health care workers dismissed after objecting to immoral procedures
 As historic Christchurch Cathedral demolished, city leaders ask bishop to save interior items
 Catholic schools look to win over families facing virtual classrooms
 ‘We are squeezing out the planet’s goods,’ Pope warns in video
 In Chiapas, Catholic community split over ‘amicable agreement’ for 1997 massacre
 Pope gets first copy of Italian Missal translation
 ‘It definitely is segregation’: Philly parishioners at historic black parish want priest removed
 US bishops call for prayer, simpler lifestyle as part of ‘ecological conversion’

Released Tuesday, Sep. 1

 Archbishop is ‘persona non grata’ in Belarus
 Pope sees ‘decisive moment’ for environmental work
 Archbishop calls for political reform in Puerto Rico
 Pandemic changing Church’s mission: Vatican official
 Places of worship attacked over 600 times in Northern Ireland in past 5 years
 Archbishop Paglia: Catholic politicians cannot protect or promote abortion
 Suspect images released after Virgin Mary statue decapitated
 Louisiana diocese devastated by Hurricane Laura
 Lay Catholic group urges Papua New Guinea Supreme Court to invalidate ‘martial law’ Pandemic Act
 Demolition work starts on historic Christchurch cathedral
 ‘Respect our common home,’ Caritas urges
 Nuns who marched at Selma reflect on civil rights today
 Church in Indonesia lacks financial transparency, scholar charges
 Brothers become 1 of 11 sibling-bishops in US Catholic history
 Richmond priest, suspended for blog, defends actions in op-ed
 US bishops vote to hold November meeting virtually
 Following presidential election, Christian watchdog group warns of ‘grave concerns’ in Sri Lanka
 ‘The natural environment is threatened like never before,’ Ecumenical Patriarch warns
 September papal prayer intention: respect for the planet’s resources

Released Monday, Aug. 31

 Archbishop Cordileone urges mayor to ease restrictions on Mass
 Sri Lankan cardinal opposes religious political parties
 German priest punched during Mass in Berlin
 Los Angeles retaliates against church challenging emergency rule
 Catholic archbishop blocked from reentry to Belarus
 Bishop Barron defends St. Junipero Serra: Evangelization is not ‘cultural aggression’
 More than 600 Christians have been killed in Nigeria in 2020, study finds
 US bishop chairmen lament additional federal executions
 Archbishop Gregory announces new anti-racism initiative
 As Covid rages in Brazil, almost 500 diocesan priests infected
 Statue of Christ vandalized in northern Italy
 Hong Kong diocese distances itself from Cardinal Bo’s prayer for Hong Kong
 Japan’s bishops: Look at displaced persons without prejudice
 India’s Catholics called to stand in solidarity with poor
 Vatican envoy praises Vietnam Catholics’ pandemic response
 Amid protest, Brazilian child undergoes abortion
 Papal prayer for Mauritius, ahead of World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation
 Pope addresses tension in eastern Mediterranean sea
 Take up the cross and fight against Satan’s temptations, Pope tells pilgrims

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