Catholic Culture Overview
Catholic Culture Overview

Stories for week of October 13, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Oct. 18

 Bishop advocates reconciliation commission in Guinea-Bissau
 Brazilian prelate ducks question on Ford Foundation funding
 Data show mass exodus from Catholic Church in Amazon region
 Multiple new abuse claims lodged against McCarrick
 Newman canonization the ‘experience of a thousand lifetimes,’ says cured Chicago mother
 In US, decline of Christianity continues at rapid pace
 Australia to amend religious freedom legislation to consider health facilities
 Financial Times examines ‘Vatican’s money trail to prime London property’
 Background: World Mission Sunday
 ‘Nature has rights,’ synod participant says at press briefing
 40 indigenous persons meet with Pope
 Brazilian bishop insists that the Amazon’s indigenous people can understand celibacy
 Caritas works to help Syrians displaced by Turkish bombings
 Algerian officials close 2 more Protestant churches
 Vatican backs dismissal of Indian nun who protested against bishop accused of rape
 Following Turkish invasion of Syria, prelate calls on Catholics in US to ‘beseech our Lord’ for peace

Released Thursday, Oct. 17

 Venezuelan bishop: why so many priests in Rome?
 Kenyan priest abducted and killed
 New York City mayor accuses New York governor of politicizing Mother Cabrini statue
 Catholic anti-nuclear activists may not raise religious-freedom defense, judge rules
 Constantinople, Moscow patriarchs write forewords to books by Pope Francis
 As Turkey invades Syria, Baghdad bishop has ‘strong fear’ of return of ISIS
 CDF determines abuse allegation against Texas bishop is ‘manifestly unfounded’
 Drug trafficking has ‘permeated our country’s institutions,’ Honduran bishops say
 Franciscan, Maryknoll organizations’ members among those arrested at Capitol refugee protest
 ‘We feel the scorch of climate change and ecological crisis,’ Suriname bishop says
 Controversial feminine image at synod resprents life, leading Vatican official says
 Vatican prefect summarizes synod’s main themes
 Pope Francis lauds St. John Paul II, St. Luke
 Pope greets delegation from NATO’s international military college
 Rupture with Constantinople over Ukraine has not damaged us, leading Russian Orthodox official says
 Vatican employees sad, surprised, dispirited by security chief’s departure

Released Wednesday, Oct. 16

 Nigerian bishop favors border wall for his country
 Cardinal Pell’s lawyers urge high court to accept appeal
 ‘Night will be no more’: El Paso bishop reflects on racism and white supremacy
 To be freed from hypocrisy, learn to point the finger at yourself, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Synod participants discuss permanent episcopal Pan-Amazonian structure
 California sex abuse law likely to spur thousands of claims
 Non-Catholic indigenous woman brings message from her elders to Pope
 Synod fathers reject ‘inter-Christian colonialism’ and proselytism, Vatican prefect says
 On World Food Day, Pope Francis calls for ‘conversion in our way of living and acting’
 UN, bishops’ conference mediate in strife-torn Ecuador
 Pope, in general audience, reflects on St. Peter and the outpouring of the Holy Sprit upon the Gentiles
 Study ‘definitively refutes the idea that being gay is an innate condition’
 ‘Leaving room for the abundant outpouring of the Spirit’: Vatican summary of synod day 8
 Apostleship of Prayer launches ‘Click To Pray eRosary’
 Turkey’s invasion of Syria strikes blow against Christians
 National Council on Disability warns of danger of assisted suicide laws

Released Tuesday, Oct. 15

 Pope names prelates to Synod’s drafting committee
 New head named for Vatican Gendarmerie
 Indian archbishop dies in California car crash
 Vatican’s Secretary of State affirms support for persecuted Christians, religious freedom
 Cardinal Sarah: To oppose the Pope is to be outside the Church
 Amid Brexit, Church in Europe navigates competing perspectives over the future
 4th lawsuit alleges sexual abuse by former bishop
 In new case, UK court authorizes forced abortion for disabled woman
 Ethiopia’s evangelical prime minister wins Nobel Peace Prize
 Vatican cardinal: We must help the Amazon’s people ‘open up to modernity’
 Bishop, at synod press briefing, affirms Vatican’s respect for Brazil’s sovereignty
 Journalist analyzes Amazon synod’s working groups
 Laity, women, sexual abuse, water: Amazon synod discussions continue
 Pope greets Italy’s national soccer team following visit to Vatican children’s hospital
 ‘Neglected and abandoned by this world’: Syriac Catholic patriarch pleads for peace in northeastern Syria

Released Monday, Oct. 14

 Vatican police chief resigns as financial investigation continues
 Bolivian bishops call for transparent elections
 Greek Orthodox recognize new Ukrainian Orthodox body
 Syrian prelate denounces US, Europe for betraying Kurds, helping Islamists
 Prince Charles pays tribute to St. John Henry Newman
 Advocates urge Trump not to desert Christians, Yazidis, Kurds in Syria
 60 million girls missing because of selective abortions in India
 Listen to the cry of Hong Kong’s citizens, Cardinal Tong urges government
 Mexico City’s cardinal sees integral ecology as Church’s response to the cry of the poor
 Synod press briefing: bishops speak of challenge of understanding Church discipline
 Synod fathers discuss women deacons, ordination of married men to priesthood
 Fostering an abiding sacramental presence in Amazon is key synod theme, San Diego bishop says
 Pope calls for peace in Ecuador
 Pope appeals for dialogue for Syria following Turkish invasion
 ‘To cry out, to walk, to give thanks’: Pope Francis canonizes John Henry Newman, 4 other blesseds
 Pontifical academy hosts symposium on dignity and the future of work
 Syro-Malabar prelate warns of declining birth rate, lack of marriage prospects for Christian men

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