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Stories for week of September 18, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Saturday, Sep. 24

 Background: World Day of Migrants and Refugees

Released Friday, Sep. 23

 Vatican’s top prosecutor resigns
 Cardinal Parolin meets with Russia’s foreign minister
 Papal preface to Argentine book
 Pope Francis to International Thomistic Congress: Go to Thomas
 Argentine imam meets with Pontiff
 Pope Francis extends a hand to China
 France won’t extradite priest, 92, to Canada, but Oblates might expel him
 Cardinal Müller: Vatican ‘should not sacrifice Cardinal Zen for China’
 Italian LGBT advocates meet Pope Francis, discuss Church ‘that excludes no one’
 Results of Vatican’s synod session with the disabled presented to Pope
 Nigerian bishop deplores military attack on city market

Released Thursday, Sep. 22

 Pregnancy center demands release of firebombing video
 Cameroon Church leaders reject kidnappers’ ransom demand
 LGBT initiative reflects spirit of Pope Francis, Belgian leader says
 Bishop meets with priests in troubled French diocese
 Pope encourages Norbertines to ‘rethink history,’ be missionaries
 Pope urges business consultants to promote diversity
 Senior German bishop mishandled abuse cases, says report
 Pope receives Ivorian president
 Papal prayer, call for solidarity for victims of Hurricane Fiona
 Bolivian VP meets with Pontiff
 Pope: May we pray for and help those with Alzheimer’s disease
 Renew commitment to nuclear test ban, Vatican Secretary of State urges
 In Haiti, radio hosts call for attacks on Catholic institutions
 Church source warns of worsening situation in Tigray
 Roll back abortions in VA hospitals, US bishops, military archdiocese urge
 ‘Building a Culture of Life in a Post-Roe World’: USCCB issues Respect Life Month statement

Released Wednesday, Sep. 21

 Pope prays for ‘tormented’ Ukraine, decries ‘madness’ of nuclear threat
 Pope, at weekly audience, reflects on Kazakhstan visit
 Catholic peace foundation fears for anarchy in Cameroon as militias get out of ontrol
 Pope to new bishops: Be open to dialogue and close to poor
 Cardinal Parolin, at UN, highlights urgent need for Global Educational Pact
 Nicaraguan dictatorship prohibits procession for St. Michael the Archangel and St. Jerome
 Yeshiva University puts all student club activities on hold following Supreme Court decision
 Chaldean Catholic Patriarch calls for union with Assyrian Church of the East
 Show support for ‘Dreamers,’ bishops urge in action alert
 Hosts for Matera Eucharistic Congress prepared by prison inmates
 Cardinal prays at queen’s funeral, signaling Charles’ openness to dialogue
 USCCB publishes regional synod summaries

Released Tuesday, Sep. 20

 Queen Elizabeth’s role in two churches—Anglican and Presbyterian—recalled
 Cameroon kidnappers make ransom demand on Church
 Belgian bishops publish liturgical service for same-sex unions
 Cardinal Krajewski prays at mass grave site in Ukrainian city
 Sostituto travels to East Timor, opens nunciature
 Irish Primate pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth, ‘courageous peacemaker’
 Vatican won’t add ‘Holy Spouses’ feast to universal calendar
 Patriarch Kirill declares the futility of attempts to intimidate the Russians
 Karnataka’s upper house approves toughest anti-conversion law
 Ukrainian seminarians prepare for priesthood in time of war
 Vatican organizes conference on ‘holiness today’
 Trial set back, but set to go ahead, for Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen
 Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza, former USCCB president, dies at 91
 US bishops release national synthesis outlining common themes raised in synod listening sessions

Released Monday, Sep. 19

 Change mankind’s course to avoid climate change, Pope says in new interview
 Haitian Church leaders urge action to end unrest
 Blood of St. Januarius liquefies
 Vatican cardinal escapes gunfire in Ukraine
 National abortion ban would be constitutional, legal scholars reason
 Papal prayer for peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia
 Pope encourages Trappists to pursue quest inspired by Jesus’ ‘dreams’
 Pope at Angelus: Be creative and clever in doing good always
 Church burned, priests and religious sister kidnapped in war-torn Cameroon
 Trial opens for Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen
 Orthodox prelate retires following allegation of affair
 French bishops’ conference leaders travel to Kyiv
 ‘Fight like heaven’: Lansing bishop begins 54-day Rosary novena for defeat of abortion ballot initiative
 US bishops publish prayer for Season of Creation
 USCCB: During National Migration Week, ‘encounter those living on the existential peripheries’
 US-based group is leading the Pope’s charge to abolish the death penalty

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