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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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