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Stories for week of September 08, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Sep. 13

 Pope rips both US presidential candidates
 Few American Catholics understand ‘synodality,’ survey shows
 Bells restored to Notre Dame as reopening approaches
 Pope ends 12-day voyage, returns to Rome
 All faiths lead to God, Pope tells youth in Singapore
 New bishop named for English diocese, after predecessor’s ordination cancelled
 Pope merges 2 Welsh dioceses
 Benedictine abbots gather to elect Abbot Primate
 Theatines mark 500th anniversary of founding
 French bishops open archive on Abbé Pierre
 Vatican approves ‘Mass for the Holy Year’

Released Thursday, Sep. 12

 White Catholics lean toward Trump, poll says
 Power of love is theme for papal homily in Singapore
 Pope warns Singapore against excesses of pragmatism
 Papal praise for Fr. Arrupe in meeting with Singapore Jesuits
 Newly ordained Chicago priest investigated for abuse during Confession
 US sends commandos, aircraft to West Africa to counter spread of Islamist terrorism
 Iraqi Christians of different churches join in preparations for feast of the Holy Cross
 Pope accepts resignation of German bishop accused of covering up abuse
 New nuncio in South Africa expresses hope for ‘continued authentic democracy’
 Leading Vatican diplomat renews appeal for peace, call for respect for religious freedom

Released Wednesday, Sep. 11

 Did CCHD over-spending signal change of focus for US bishops’ poverty program?
 Pope arrives in Singapore: last stop on voyage
 Ukrainian Orthodox prelate beaten in Kiev
 In Dili, Pope repeats message to youth: make a mess!
 Papal message highlights importance of literarcy
 Ghana’s bishops call for election fairness
 African scholar on International Theological Commission discusses research on sexual abuse
 Pope, in East Timor, reflects on ‘sacrament of the poor’
 Cardinal Agagianian’s remains transferred to Lebanon
 Iraqi bishops’ standoff now at ‘higher ecclesiastical court,’ cardinal says
 Holy See deplores cluster munitions

Released Tuesday, Sep. 10

 Papal encouragement for religious in East Timor
 Pope delivers pro-natal message at Mass in East Timor
 Accept Europe’s decline, Cardinal Schönborn recommends
 Flooding closes Lourdes grotto
 Connecticut diocese announces bankruptcy reorganization plan
 Pope Francis: May Eucharistic devotion help make us like Simon of Cyrene
 Vatican spokesman pays tribute to Argentine missionaries in Papua New Guinea
 European Protestants approve publication of controversial document on gender, sexuality
 Papal condolences following Kenyan school fire
 Vatican official, Latin American bishops’ officials discuss abuse prevention

Released Monday, Sep. 9

 Pope arrives in East Timor; abuse issue clouds celebration
 Supreme Court declines Oklahoma bid to restore federal funds cut over abortion policy
 New charges against Abbé Pierre, founder of Emmaus Movement
 Texas Carmelites disregard bishop’s peace offer
 Franciscan University to build DC program
 Papal Mass in Papua New Guinea: ‘Open yourselves to the joy of the Gospel’
 Pope Francis asks Papua New Guinea Catholics to spread the Gospel to ‘peripheries’
 US secures release of Nicaraguan political prisoners, including lay Catholics
 International Eucharistic Congress opens in Ecuador
 Vatican official, other Christian leaders open Season of Creation
 Cardinal opposes efforts to declare Papua New Guinea a Christian nation
 Cardinal Grech: Nun’s meditations can help Church have ‘ever more synodal style’
 Physicists, theologians reflect on time, eternity

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