Stories for week of October 20, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Oct. 25

 Uzbek government sees beards as sign of terrorism
 Church opposes bid to legalize abortion in Nigeria
 Researcher withholds study showing no benefits from gender treatment
 Pope welcomes Vatican Library exhibit on Sts. Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas
 Police suspect arson in Massachusetts church fire
 Paris archdiocese rejects suggestion for entry fees at Notre Dame
 Find new ways to evangelize, Pope challenges Passionists
 Cardinal Fernandez: discussion of female diaconate will continue
 Details announced for jubilee of musical bands
 US archbishop, at synod: Church needs women in decision-making
 Vatican message: G7 forum on missionaries an opportunity to ‘strengthen solidarity’
 Pope’s new vicar general for Rome named Archpriest of Lateran Basilica
 Holy See calls for ‘decisive action’ on international debt relief
 Vatican spokesman highlights late Jesuit’s influence on new encyclical
 New papal encyclical is key to understanding Pope Francis’s teaching, archbishop says

Released Thursday, Oct. 24

 Vatican extension of China deal ‘beggars belief,’ activist says
 Welsh parliament votes against assisted suicide
 Cardinal Müller salutes Gutierrez as ‘one of the great theologians’
 Traditionalist ordinations to resume in French diocese after 2-year delay
 Vatican signs accord with Czech Republic, ensuring legal status of Church
 New papal encyclical urges devotion to Sacred Heart
 ‘Always forgive,’ Pope tells confessors
 Vatican urges Hindus to work for inter-religious harmony
 Curial cardinals to face salary cut
 Pope to young people at the Synod: ‘Keep moving forward’
 Pope lauds Latin language as ‘treasure trove’
 Synod, October 23: over 1,000 amendments to synod’s final document proposed
 USCCB committee chairmen back emissions data legislation
 Holy See ‘alarmed’ by radiation risk from Ukraine war, Vatican diplomat says

Released Wednesday, Oct. 23

 Indonesian cardinal-designate declines red hat
 Pope laments ‘terrible’ death toll in Ukraine
 Gustavo Gutierrez, father of liberation theology, dead at 96
 Church made no effort to end past clerical abuse, Irish archbishop says
 Buffalo diocese cautions priests against involvement in parish-closing appeals
 Pope, at general audience, reflects on the Holy Spirit and the Sacrament of Marriage
 Cardinal Eugenio Dal Corso, Italian missionary bishop, dies at 85
 Armenian church helps prepare texts for Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
 Migration has transformed Church in North Africa, cardinal says
 The possession of nuclear weapons is immoral, Vatican diplomat says at UN
 Vatican hosts conference for laity on Confession
 Cardinal-designate Radcliffe denies making published remarks about African bishops and homosexuality, Cardinal Ambongo says

Released Tuesday, Oct. 22

 Psychological evaluation ordered for LA bishop’s accused killer
 Cardinal Pizzaballa: two-state solution no longer realistic in Holy Land
 Cardinal Zen rips manipulation of Synod
 Top Vatican official hints at papal involvement in mysterious abuse case
 Vatican renews secret agreement with China
 US bishop at synod: ‘Allowing different episcopal conferences to teach varying doctrines would be disastrous’
 DC cardinal urges prayer, reflection before November elections
 Vatican diplomat laments ‘relentless increase’ in military spending, calls deterrence ‘illusory’
 Papal appeal for peace, protection of Yanomami people’s rights
 ‘Sports are a hymn to life,’ Pope says in message
 Maronite Patriarch criticizes Hezbollah
 Synod, October 21: Cardinal Fernández calls for more women in leadership roles, but not in diaconate
 Synod, October 19: Cardinal Grech calls for reevaluation of seminaries, theology programs

Released Monday, Oct. 21

 Papal encyclical on Sacred Heart to be released this week
 Father Radcliffe: discuss Synod document without fear
 Priest killed in Mexico’s Chiapas state
 Peruvian cardinal-designate condemns lay group as fascist revival
 Another pro-life activist begins lengthy prison sentence
 Pope Francis canonizes 14 saints
 Synod, October 18: some delegates angered by Cardinal Fernández’s absence from dialogue
 Worldwide baptisms fall over 15% in 6 years
 Eswatini’s king meets with Pontiff
 Following synod’s conclusion, synod leaders will ‘reread’ Church’s last 60 years
 Passionists elect new superior general
 Renewed papal gratitude for children’s Rosary for peace

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