Stories for week of September 06, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Sep. 11

 Filipino priest is gunshot victim
 Archbishop Gänswein hospitalized
 Child’s safety outweighs religious freedom: Australian envoy
 Some Australian priests defying ban on anointing
 Chinese government likely to renew pact with Vatican
 Ex-Cardinal McCarrick had 2nd beach house linked to mysterious debt and unusual history
 New UK survey: 4% of Catholics will not return to church after pandemic
 Australian bishop: ‘Catholic priests cannot break the seal of confession’
 ‘We’re sitting on a powder keg,’ Italian bishop warns after young man beaten to death
 ACLU staff member criticizes Kentucky college for admitting Covington Catholic teen
 Bishops preach against racism on feast of St. Peter Claver
 Syro-Malabar bishops urge dioceses to set up cremation facilities in India
 Federal appeals court upholds Illinois worship exemption from Covid limits
 ‘He was in a rage’: Vandal spends nearly 2 hours destroying exterior of Louisiana Catholic church
 Tabernacle, stolen from Ontario cathedral, found in canal
 Catholic Health Association: All have responsibility to receive Covid vaccine, ‘barring exceptional circumstances’
 Worshippers hold 24/7 vigil at Boston-area church to protest its closing
 Vatican: Catholic schools facing ‘dramatic situation’ amid pandemic
 Green Bay bishop reinstates obligation to attend Sunday Mass
 Bangladesh Catholic hospitals treat Covid patients with Pope’s ventilators
 Former Christianity Today editor to be confirmed a Catholic

Released Thursday, Sep. 10

 Pope calls for ‘more human and coordinated’ response to migration
 Catholic health-care worker: axed by Catholic facility for upholding Catholic teaching
 ‘A large outbreak’ at Catholic homeless shelter grows to 61 coronavirus cases
 Visiting Lebanon, Vatican Secretary of State emphasizes: ‘You are not alone’
 Wildfires endanger some Oregon churches
 Priest accused of child sex abuse was allowed at Minnesota Catholic music camp
 Australia: Archbishop sees plenary council as a call to greater fidelity
 Catholics thank drug company for switching to an ethical polio vaccine
 Wisconsin bishop warns of possible canonical penalties against priest for video on Democratic Party
 President Trump, military archbishop speak out against cancellation of Navy contracts with priests
 GOP attacks Harris amid battle for Catholic voters’ support
 Uncertain future faces Catholics in conflict-torn Belarus
 Bishop, former USCCB office heads urge Catholic voters to oppose Trump
 Pope upholds right to education, notwithstanding wars and violence

Released Wednesday, Sep. 9

 Nicaragua expels foreign priests; bishops protest
 Pope takes Covid precautions in resuming public audiences
 Seek common good in emerging from Covid lockdown, Pope urges
 Churches exempt from new restrictions on gatherings in UK
 Queensland passes law to jail priests for not reporting confessions of child sexual abuse
 Human rights advocate: Church in Hong Kong divided as Beijing turns the screw
 Beijing: Foreign teachers must not evangelize
 Pakistani Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy
 Chocó bishops denounce systematic human rights violations
 Bishop chairman calls on Congress, White House to reach a deal on Covid relief
 Iowa Catholic college removes bishop-founder’s statue after revelations of slave ownership
 Buffalo-area parish to sell former school, convent to Muslim organization
 In new book, Pope Francis converses with Slow Food founder
 Tabernacle stolen from Ontario cathedral
 Indiana AG asks court to support religious liberty in case involving Catholic teaching on same-sex marriage
 Navy changes course, says Masses will continue on San Diego-area bases
 Attacks on French churches back to ‘normal’ level after lockdown
 Vatican newspaper publishes response to Atlantic article on Pius XII and the Holocaust
 Only 18 babies with Down syndrome born in Denmark in 2019
 Papal condolences for the death of Cardinal Jaworski

Released Tuesday, Sep. 8

 His own father murdered, archbishop speaks against death penalty
 Lake Charles priest surveys hurricane’s devastation to diocese
 Colombian bishops commemorate ‘peace week’ amid sporadic conflict
 Preparations for World Youth Day resume
 A growing number of Catholic schools are shutting down forever
 Nigerian archbishops condemn gasoline price hike
 Federal appeals court: Ex-music director may sue parish for ‘hostile work environment’
 Ghana bishops’ official: Reject politicians, parties that engage in insults
 Pandemic may have accelerated Europe’s secularization by 10 years, leading EU cardinal says
 Bishops join in efforts to reaffirm black people’s dignity
 New Zealand bishops pay tribute to Catholic social teaching
 Texas bishop endorses Wisconsin priest’s message: ‘You cannot be Catholic and a Democrat’
 Church official: Migration should be ‘voluntary, safe, and regular’
 Leading Swiss bishop rips Vatican document on parishes
 Pope encourages fraternal correction, laments gossip

Released Monday, Sep. 7

 Holy See, Burkina Faso enter into new accord
 Priest sues Nebraska diocese, claims false abuse charge
 Argentine prelate sees ‘double standard’ in Mass attendance restrictions
 Armed groups dominate Central African Republic, bishops lament
 Expert sees ‘little fruit’ from Vatican-China accord
 Cardinal Marian Jaworski dead at 94
 Mozambique: kidnapped nuns released after three weeks
 Bishop-elect resigns before consecration after abuse charges
 Haitian bishop decries ‘bribe’ from government in advance of elections
 Vatican announces topic of Pope’s 3rd encyclical
 Christian persecution increased globally after Covid
 Papal condolences on the death of Cardinal Simonis
 Sudan agrees with rebels to remove Islam as state religion
 San Marino’s leaders meet with Pontiff
 Toronto priest plagiarized when ghostwriting for Cardinal Ouellet: new book
 Pope’s governance style embodies St. Ignatius’ discernment, influential editor writes
 Bishop: ‘The Church must proclaim the truth’ on new French abortion law
 Argentine archbishop laments ‘double standard’ as numbers allowed at Mass reduced
 Venezuelan religious brother does funerals alone in Peru cemetery amid virus
 Abducted Jesuit was ‘in love with Islam, believing in Jesus’
 Infanticide OK with 90% of NICU docs and nurses in Belgian survey
 Exiled Belarusian archbishop was previously removed from Moscow position
 Navy cancels Masses at San Diego-area bases while other religious services continue
 Now is the time for ecological conversion and creativity in building a new economy, Pope says in message

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