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Stories for week of September 24, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Saturday, Sep. 30

 Pope creates 21 new cardinals, calls on College of Cardinals to ‘resemble a symphony orchestra’

Released Friday, Sep. 29

 Secretariat of State seeks $185 million damages in Vatican financial trial
 Artificial Intelligence is theme for World Communications Day 2024
 Kissinger to speak at Al Smith dinner
 Pope encourages Viet Catholics to be ‘good Christians and good citizens’
 No prosecution for woman who vandalized pregnancy-help center
 Oklahoma archbishop decries ‘archiac’ execution of criminal
 Minority of US Catholics believe in Real Presence
 Pope Francis meets with former CIA director
 New Hong Kong cardinal: Sharing ‘love of God,’ not conversions, goal of Church in China
 Catholic delegation from Jordan meets with Pope
 DDF ruling permits Cardinal Ricard, who sexually abused minor, to vote in conclave, minister in diocese of residence
 Azerbaijan’s current actions evoke the Armenian Genocide, bishop warns
 Proportion of Catholics in Poland falls to 71%, new census data show
 18 US seminarians ordained deacons in St. Peter’s Basilica

Released Thursday, Sep. 28

 Cardinal Cupich lauds Cardinal Bernardin’s ‘seamless garment’
 Portuguese premier meets with Pontiff
 Summing up this pontificate: ‘He made a mess’
 Vatican Museums offer longer hours, automatic ticketing
 Vatican bank lawyer raps Secretariat of State investors, seeks damages
 China pleased with Pope’s message, Hong Kong archbishop says
 In unusual move, Steubenville bishop named auxiliary bishop of Detroit
 Maryland attorney general releases revised report on abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore
 Discipline of sister who led community co-founded by Father Rupnik raises questions
 Canadian bishops address protection of minors and vulnerable adults
 Deacon’s estate settles with abuse victim
 Priest shot in attack on parish in Cameroon
 Stolen tabernacle returned to California church, with Blessed Sacrament missing
 Religious freedom includes institutional freedom, Vancouver archbishop preaches
 Weekly Mass attendance in US fell to 17% in 2022, with additional 5% watching online
 USCCB, CUA urge EEOC not to apply pregnant workers’ protections to abortion

Released Wednesday, Sep. 27

 Vatican archbishop, at UN, urges steps toward disarmament
 Papal audience: report on visit to Marseille, new vision for Mediterranean
 Papal abuse commission issues scathing statement on continued abuse cover-ups
 Belgian bishop complains Vatican won’t move against disgraced colleague
 Archbishop Etienne discusses how he is preparing for the Synod
 Pro-abortion group protests Brooklyn bishop’s appearance at Mass on campus
 Jesuit challenges new South African cardinal to become ‘prophetic’
 Accused Australian bishop once testified to royal commission about Church’s ‘massive failure’ in addressing abuse
 Knoxville priest assesses Bishop Stika’s tenure
 Cardinal Mario Grech seen as ‘central figure in Pope’s plan to change Catholic Church’
 Heads of Germany’s Synodal Way seek papal talks on resolutions
 Princeton professor, others call for new investgation of Thedore McCarrick

Released Tuesday, Sep. 26

 California Governor Newsom vetoes bill requiring parents to support gender transition
 In Burkina Faso, emigration now a ‘necessity’ for many, bishop says
 Superior of religious community, co-founder with Rupnik, removed and disciplined
 Home-school movement less religious after post-lockdown boom?
 Jimmy Lai passes 1,000 days in prison
 Vatican announces themes for World Youth Day 2023, 2024
 Pope’s new environmental document to be called Laudate Deum
 USCCB action alert: ‘Tell Congress to include increased funding for WIC in a short-term funding bill!’
 President Biden issues Yom Kippur message
 Leading Canadian prelate discusses indigenous peoples, Synod
 Cardinal Dolan on Biden’s NYC migrant response: ‘He doesn’t take my calls’
 Register profiles 23 ‘movers and shakers’ at October Synod
 Some Catholic schools distance themselves from Diocese of Cleveland’s sexuality policy
 German bishops in tug of war over blessing same-sex unions
 Philadelphia archbishop commissions 10 new Missionaries of Mercy
 Terrorists kill 11 Christians in Mozambique
 Thousands of Armenian Christians flee homes: ‘mass exodus has begun,’ expert says

Released Monday, Sep. 25

 Great saints defended marriage; will we?
 AP story sees tensions between Pope, US bishops
 Pope pays respect to deceased Italian President Napolitano
 Papal praise for Cardinal O’Malley’s work on sex-abuse crisis
 Some Minnesota medical students alarmed by presence of classmates faithful to Catholic teaching
 US Catholic archbishop receives award from Ukraine’s Zelenskyy
 Bishop Saunders has ‘gone rogue’ amid abuse investigation
 Leading Swiss bishop calls for women’s ordination, says ‘time is ripe to abolish celibacy’
 Papal reflection on parable of the workers in the vineyard
 Pope renews call for ‘right not to emigrate’
 Irish Primate laments bishops’ position during Irish Civil War
 Overwhelmingly Anglican Isle of Man gets 1st Catholic cathedral
 Episcopal Church’s National Cathedral replaces windows honoring Confederacy
 US bishops ‘stand ready’ to help congressional leaders avert government shutdown
 Take leap of faith and dare to love your family, those in need, Pope says in Marseille

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