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Stories for week of September 03, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Sep. 8

 Michigan priest charged with theft from elderly clerics
 Exposed: the immoral (but lucrative) business of ‘assisted reproduction’
 Papal endorsement for new book on Polish martyr family
 Another Russian Orthodox priest jailed for protesting Ukraine war
 Pope to meet Indian Orthodox primate
 Literacy is central to development, Pope says
 Nigerian seminarian dies as attackers burn rectory
 Nigerian Catholic Church launches campaign to plant 5.5 million trees
 Jacksonville Catholic bookstore now free to speak, operate consistent with beliefs
 Cardinal Cupich: Synod critics mischaracterize the Synod’s aim
 Argentine priests celebrate reparation Mass after presidential candidate calls Pope Francis an ‘imbecile’
 The Synod is about evangelization, apostolic nuncio to US says
 Zagano accuses DDF staff of ‘ridiculous’ heresy
 Tabernacle stolen from Texas parish, then found
 Vatican Secretary of State praises Ukrainian Catholic leader’s statements

Released Thursday, Sep. 7

 German lay leader: bar right-wing politicians from Church office
 God includes, never excludes, Pope says
 Solution possible in Syro-Malabar liturgical dispute?
 New Vatican documents detail efforts to save Jews from Holocaust
 Mass attendance plummets in Italy after lockdown
 Archbishop protests lack of Catholic chaplain at US air force base
 Seattle archdiocese asks all pastors to resign ahead of parish consolidation
 Vatican diplomat recalls harm done by nuclear tests
 Cardinal Marengo: Pope’s visit to Mongolia sows seeds of harmony
 Papal prayer for fire victims in South Africa
 National day of remembrance mourns aborted children
 Postulator discusses Ulma family ahead of beatification
 California Catholic college sells campus to stay afloat
 Ukrainian Catholic bishops rebuke Pope over his Russia comments
 Archive shows how Church defended human rights during Chile’s dictatorship

Released Wednesday, Sep. 6

 Armenian prelate warns of a new genocide
 ‘Is there something wrong in Rome?’
 Manila archdiocese dropping investments in ‘destructive’ firms
 Italian Catholic hospitals agree to pool resources
 US commission sees setbacks for religious freedom in Vietnam
 Pope hears bishops’ reports, urges prayers for Ukrainian people
 Pope, at general audience, recalls apostolic journey to Mongolia
 Laicization looms for priest who fled to Italy with recent high school graduate
 Mexico’s high court overturns state’s abortion ban
 In Northern Ireland, data breach leaves Catholic police officers at risk
 Australia: archdiocesan chancellor slams government takeover of Catholic hospital
 Brazilian archbishop distributes Holy Communion to Muslim sheikh at funeral Mass for cardinal
 Ukrainian Catholic leader: ‘The world begins to rediscover the criminal past of the Russian empire’
 USCCB responds to proposed HHS LGBTQI+ nondiscrimination rule

Released Tuesday, Sep. 5

 Columnist sees irony in Ortega’s campaign against Nicaraguan Jesuits
 Vatican clarification: newborn son among Polish martyrs to be beatified
 Pope visits Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
 Leading central Asian bishop: Pope’s Mongolia visit shows unity despite differences
 Pope Francis thanks Our Lady for Mongolia visit
 Vatican diplomat warns against overreliance on digital technologies
 China says it is positive on improving relations with Vatican
 Ukrainian Catholic synod begins in Rome
 Papal telegrams to Xi Jinping, Mongolian president, other leaders
 New Orleans archdiocese plans sales of vast real estate holdings to pay abuse claims
 Catholic school vandalized in California

Released Monday, Sep. 4

 Pope rues ‘ideological’ criticism of Synod [News Analysis]
 Pope Francis rehabilitating Teilhard de Chardin?
 Baltimore archdiocese weighs bankruptcy filing
 Ukrainian Catholic Synod to meet in Rome in September
 Non-religious US voters trend heavily Democratic
 Retired Irish archbishop stirs controversy with interview
 Ecumenical Patriarch rips Russian Orthodox ‘theology of war’
 Polish family’s beatification highlights debate over Church’s wartime role
 Chapel in Argentina vandalized; bishop calls for acts of reparation
 Christians in Burkina Faso going back to church amid persecution
 South African bishops laud whistleblowers who expose corruption
 Jesus is the answer to human longing, Pope says at Mass in Mongolia
 Pope encourages little Mongolian flock in faith, unity, witness, Eucharistic adoration
 Pope encourages Chinese Catholics to be ‘good Catholics and good citizens’

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