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Stories for week of November 14, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Nov. 19

 Pope denounces child labor
 Vatican statement cites safety problems in fishing industry
 Pope sees dialogue as key to ‘new culture’
 Biden administration to drop religious-freedom protection for child-welfare agencies
 Oklahoma archbishop lauds governor’s clemency in death-penalty case
 Survey: Americans’ support for religious freedom increases
 In India, radical Hindus accuse 2 nuns of illegal conversions
 ‘Pope Francis Sent Me a Letter. It Gives Me Hope as a Gay Catholic.’
 ‘Let the pastors not be afraid to listen to the flock,’ Cardinal Grech tells US bishops
 US bishops: review of charter for protecting youth to start 3 years early
 Slovak lawmakers narrowly reject modest pro-life measure
 Archbishop Roche: ‘Let us go back to what the Council required of the Church’
 Ghana’s bishops urge faithful to receive Covid vaccine, lament LGBTQIA+’s ‘socio-moral canker’
 Rome’s new mayor, Pope Francis discuss 2025 jubilee year
 Cardinal Pell speaks about prison experience, says Church is going through ‘hard patch’
 ‘Astounding statistics’: Vatican message refers to scope of abuse in France, Australia

Released Thursday, Nov. 18

 Australian archbishop issues vaccine mandate: no conscience exceptions
 Supreme Court declines Christian school’s challenge to Oregon’s Covid restrictions
 Warm meeting between Armenian prime minister, new Catholic Patriarch
 Moscow Catholics protest sale of church
 Elimination of nuclear weapons is a ‘moral and humanitarian imperative,’ Vatican Secretary of State says
 China intensifies surveillance, control of clergy
 Missionaries of Charity evacuated 14 disabled orphans from Kabul
 US bishops approve statement on the Eucharist, National Eucharistic Revival
 Vatican organizes conference on eradicating child labor
 Papal appeals for abuse victims, Italian workers whose jobs are threatened
 Vatican newspaper deplores death of refugee on Poland-Belarus border
 In Pakistan, bishops’ commission pleads for end of abduction, forced conversion of women, girls

Released Wednesday, Nov. 17

 Pope salutes bishops’ justice-and-peace commissions
 Eucharist document in focus as US bishops begin discussions
 Biden administration rolling back religious-freedom protections?
 Oklahoma attorney general cites Catholic hospital for violating religious freedom
 Defense moves to dismiss charges in Vatican finance trial
 Church’s evangelizing mission can heal division, Archbishop Gomez tells US bishops
 Pope Francis begins Wednesday general audience series on St. Joseph
 Ukrainian Catholic leader tells the Pope about the problems of Ukrainian society
 Latin American bishops’ assembly to learn from indigenous communal work
 In Myanmar, Church transforms seminaries, convents into clinics, hospitals
 Leading Russian Orthodox official criticizes ‘demythologizing’ Scripture scholars of 19th, 20th centuries
 ‘No desire for truth’ in Church in Spain over child sex abuse, victims charge
 Vatican official: COP26 outcome was ‘insufficient’
 Pope splits Venezuelan archdiocese in 2
 Vatican hosts meeting on Covid era with bishops’ commissions
 Vatican newspaper laments EU’s ‘staggering gap’ between words and deeds on migrants
 Pope Francis: Refugees are ending up in a ‘desert of humanity’

Released Tuesday, Nov. 16

 New Orleans archdiocese to pay $1 million fine to settle fraud charges
 Demonstrators gather as US bishops begin meeting
 Some Salesians released, others still in custody in Ethiopia
 ‘My gut tells me you can’t negotiate with these people’: Cardinal Dolan has concerns about Vatican-China dialogue
 Pope announces official launch of Laudato Si’ Action Platform
 Papal trip to Florence announced
 Pope to poor: Your place is not at the door of churches, but in the heart of the Church
 Diocesan consolidations continue as Pope unites 2 Spanish dioceses
 COP26 climate summit made progress but came up short, Catholic agencies say
 41 countries ban religion-related groups
 Armed vandals attack 2 parishes in South Sudan; catechist killed
 Baltimore priest robbed, pistol-whipped near church
 Amid Church-state tensions, papal knighthood conferred on France’s Vatican ambassador

Released Monday, Nov. 15

 ‘Make our decision today,’ Pope urges faithful at Angelus audience
 At World Day for Poor, Pope speaks of hope
 Cardinal Becciu acknowledges diverting funds but denies wrongdoing
 Croatian president meets with Pontiff
 Vatican News highlights cardinal’s opposition to US bishops’ document on Eucharist
 Pope encourages secular Franciscans for ‘outbound’ service
 Head of Communion and Liberation resigns
 Belarus religious leaders ask help for refugees
 French bishops dismiss spokeswoman, criticized for handling of abuse report
 Most US Catholics do not accept Church teaching on Eucharist, poll finds
 Former head of Knights of Malta dead at 71
 Apostolic Nuncio: Catholic Church in Belarus prays for refugees
 Mexican immigration agents attempt to detain priest helping migrants
 Women in Argentina claim labor exploitation by Opus Dei
 2 papal messages mark 75th anniversary of UNESCO
 Scholars receive Ratzinger Prize as Pope Francis pays tribute to Pope Benedict
 Cardinal Parolin, in address to UN organization, reflects on ethics of artificial intelligence
 Costa Rican diocese orders canonical closure of Benedictine monastery
 Program announced for papal journey to Cyprus, Greece
 Listen, investigate, and report: Pope honors 2 veteran Vatican journalists
 Pray for the Church: papal remarks to Poor Clares in Assisi
 World Day of Peace theme: ‘Education, work, and dialogue between generations’

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