Stories for week of December 05, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Dec. 10

 Controversy in Paris over plan to modernize interior of Notre Dame
 Texas judge rules against abortion law’s enforcement provision
 Human rights are not government concessions, Pope tells jurists
 Boston archdiocese plans mask mandate for Christmas
 Arabian peninsula’s biggest cathedral opens in Bahrain
 ‘Nonbinary’ X designation added to Michigan driver’s licenses
 Ukrainian Catholic leader addresses military chaplains amid fears of Russian invasion
 Bishop discusses liturgical turmoil in Syro-Malabar Church
 ‘We don’t want to leave Rome without a new date,’ leading Canadian bishop says
 European bishops’ legal advisors ponder Covid restrictions
 Around the world, bishops confront new same-sex marriage laws
 Indonesian Christians told to help Covid affected
 Vatican official named Mexican archbishop; implications for US seminaries?
 Cardinal Parolin pays tribute to importance of the natural law
 Let us not be afraid of our miseries, Pope tells Cenacolo Community

Released Thursday, Dec. 9

 Mexican clerics convicted for statements on marriage, human life
 Massachusetts priest silenced for opposition to Covid vaccine
 Pope quietly honors Immaculate Conception on feast day
 Did key figure in Vatican finance trial implicate Pope Francis?
 Michigan diocese restricts sacraments for transgender people
 Statue defaced at Immaculate Conception basilica in DC
 Supreme Court skeptical of Maine law barring state funds for religious schools
 Missouri city bans the use of conversion therapy on minors
 New bishop installed in Crookston, 8 months after predecessor’s resignation over cover-up
 Cincinnati archdiocese announces parish ‘family’ groups amid massive consolidation effort
 The pandemic calls for a culture of care, Pope says in interview
 Bishops join the clamor for Scotland’s school sex survey to be scrapped
 Cause for canonization of Dorothy Day readied for Rome
 Hate crimes against Christians on the rise in Europe, report finds
 Canadian bishops, indigenous leaders postpone Vatican meeting
 Papal message for dedication of tower at Sagrada Família
 Seek holiness humbly, in ordinary life, as the Virgin Mary did, Pope tells pilgrims

Released Wednesday, Dec. 8

 CWN closed for feast of the Immaculate Conception

Released Tuesday, Dec. 7

 Australian archbishop raps new restrictions on freedoms of religious institutions
 Taiwan honored at Vatican display of Nativity scenes
 Austrian bishops OK compulsory vaccination
 New Vatican norms for most serious crimes
 Student sues school over 1-game suspension, arguing gender policy infringes on speech, religious rights
 Bishops of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands decry ‘witchcraft, polygamy, war, and female homicide’
 Continued controversy over crucifixes in Italian classrooms
 Upcoming SCOTUS case focuses on religious education, ‘sectarian exclusion’
 Church in Portugal urges abuse victims to come forward
 2 German bishops question Church teaching on homosexual acts, transgenderism
 Hindu nationalists attack Catholic school in India
 Pope: New meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch possible
 Apostolic nuncio to EU dies of Covid
 Vatican diplomat weighs in on UN plan to combat human trafficking
 Boy Scouts abuse victims caught up in Chapter 11 lobbying
 ‘Let us stop this shipwreck of civilization,’ Pope warns on Lesvos

Released Monday, Dec. 6

 Pope talks to reporters about democracy, Paris archbishop, EU Christmas document
 On return to Rome, Pope visits St. Mary Major
 Papal preacher’s 1st Advent sermon: ‘God sent His Son that we might be adopted as God’s children’
 Hong Kong’s new bishop hopes to foster healing
 Pope asks pardon for sins that drove Catholic, Orthodox apart
 US bishops ‘deeply dismayed’ by Biden administration’s reinstatement of ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy
 Israeli archeologists find remains dating back to Sanhedrin
 Major Archbishop Shevchuk says Pope plans to visit Ukraine
 Nuns, deacons arrested in Ethiopia
 After oral arguments in landmark ‘Dobbs v. Jackson’ abortion case, experts say Roe’s days are numbered
 Pope arrives in Athens, warns of ‘retreat from democracy’
 Lamenting West’s indifference to refugees, Pope departs from Cyprus

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