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Stories for week of October 03, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Oct. 8

 Pope dropping plan for October visit to Scotland?
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 French archbishop to discuss confessional seal with government leader
 Leading Muslim cleric praises Fratelli Tutti
 Religious Exemptions to Vaccine Mandates Tested in New York Case
 Vatican cardinal welcomes Pelosi visit
 Merkel and Pope discuss climate change in farewell visit
 Indian Christians demand action against church attackers
 ‘Extraordinary’ changes seen in Saudi educational system’s treatment of Christianity
 Tajikistan punishes ‘underground’ religious formation for children
 Pennsylvania nuns again lose challenge to Atlantic Sunrise pipeline
 Oklahoma judge blocks 2 abortion laws, allows 3 others
 Missouri’s 4 bishops urge state leaders to end executions
 How and when will Church in France compensate victims of ‘systemic’ child abuse?
 California rolls back assisted-suicide safeguards
 New Biden administration rule allowing Title X funds for abortion called ‘offensive’ to millions
 Pope to name St. Irenaeus of Lyon a doctor of the Church

Released Thursday, Oct. 7

 Poll shows most US Catholics unaware of restrictions on traditional Mass
 Pope launches ecological studies at Lateran University
 Papal focus on synodality in address to Catholic-Orthodox working group
 Federal rules limit religious exemptions to vaccination
 Acquittal in Vatican seminary abuse trial
 Federal court halts enforcement of Texas abortion law
 Pope Francis creates new Vatican foundation for Catholic hospitals facing financial difficulties
 Black Catholic administrators call out treatment of Haitians at border
 Irish bishops call for climate action, provide update on Synodal Pathway
 Indigenous ‘expert’ who advised book burnings at Catholic schools in Canada draws scrutiny
 USCCB: French abuse report ‘underscores the need for us to repent ‘
 Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Pope Francis
 Synods can become entrenched structures, Anglican primate cautions
 Sant’Egidio community hosts major interreligious gathering
 ‘People are slaughtering each other’: in South Sudan, Church leaders work for peace
 ‘This is a moment of shame’: Pope Francis responds to French abuse commission report

Released Wednesday, Oct. 6

 Vatican court rebukes prosecution in financial trial
 Theme of Pope’s general audience: ‘Christ has set us free’
 Vietnamese priest calls state media attacks against him ‘slander’
 Belarusian government steps in to defend Catholic priests
 A new Catholic Bishops Conference of Central Asia is born
 Status report on 18 state AG investigations into Catholic dioceses and abuse
 ‘Shame and horror’: French bishops react to report on sexual abuse of 216,000 children
 As Legion of Christ fought sex abuse claims, secret trusts sheltered millions offshore
 Pope Francis prays for victims following report on clerical sexual abuse in France
 Do not confuse utility with happiness, Pope tells pontifical academy conference participants
 In video message, Pope encourages young people to create a new economy
 Hostility, conflict are fruits of the Devil, Pope tells Vatican police

Released Tuesday, Oct. 5

 French report: over 300,000 victims of clerical abuse [updated]
 Rash of anti-Christian violence across India
 New date set for World Youth Day in 2023
 Vatican UN observer: law requires commitment to justice
 Pope says all faiths should promote education
 Maronite Patriarch decries Hezbollah influence in Lebanon
 Attorney general orders FBI to probe opposition to school boards
 China accelerates Sinicization of Catholic Church
 Another Pentecostal pastor arrested in Himachal Pradesh
 Pope, other religious leaders issue pre-COP26 appeal on climate change
 2 Italian laywomen beatified
 Pope Francis thanks Christian disability group for witnessing to ‘the heart of the Gospel’
 New papal appeal for peace in Myanmar
 Pope calls for more humane prison life after Ecuador deaths
 Papal tribute to Cardinal dos Santos, ‘indefatigable servant of the Gospel’
 British court says unborn child has no rights under European Convention on Human Rights
 Canadian bishops conclude meeting, elect new president
 Mexico’s bishops urge nation to return to policy of ‘open arms’

Released Monday, Oct. 4

 Papal aid for disaster victims in South Sudan, Greece
 Beatification set for Pauline Jaricot
 First female chancellor for pontifical Urbaniana University
 Three members of Swiss Guard resign over vaccine mandate
 Cardinal Turkson opposes denial of Communion for Biden
 Forbes previews Vatican financial trial, notes papal involvement
 German ‘Synodal Path’ set back by lack of quorum [News/Analysis]
 Chilean Cardinal Medina Estevez dead at 94
 Defense lawyers question fairness of Vatican trial
 Become like children before God, Pope tells pilgrims
 Old Testament expert, philosopher from Germany win 2021 Ratzinger Prizes
 ‘Jesus asks us all, and you as well, to be missionary disciples,’ Pope says
 Papal tribute to St. Thérèse of Lisieux
 Papal encouragement for youth at World Food Forum
 Australian plenary council begins—the 1st since 1937
 Catholic, other religious leaders in UK call for ‘transformational’ climate action
 Kentucky diocese’s LGBT commission: Respect for life includes respect for LGBT lives
 Vatican announces 40-day Laudato Si’ prayer campaign
 ‘Abandoned by all’: Vatican newspaper laments plight of starving Afghans
 Vatican releases details of Synod on Synodality’s opening ceremonies

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