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Stories for week of July 29, 2012

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Aug. 3

 Papal message of support for inter-religious gathering in Japan
 Malnutrition, disease stalk refugee camps in South Sudan
 Syrian civil war will have no winners, Catholic analyst fears
 Bavarian group to perform for Pope
 Pope drafting new encyclical?
 Maine diocese cleared of cover-up in abuse lawsuit
 Italian diocese takes action against schismatic prelate
 Vatican message to Muslims: educate young people for peace
 US bishops’ spokeswoman welcomes injunction against HHS mandate
 Bishop issues pastoral letter decrying new abortion clinic
 Senior British general, a Catholic, laments torture, opposes Iran intervention
 Pakistan: prelate calls for investigation into poisoning of Christian nurses
 India: 400,000 displaced by Assam conflict
 British judge rules 10-year-old Jewish girl may seek baptism
 Humanist weddings now outnumber Catholic weddings in Scotland

Released Thursday, Aug. 2

 Have archeologists found burial box of high priest Caiaphas?
 Vatican newspaper backs US bishops' bid to keep immigrant families together
 Violence drives 100 Coptic families from Egyptian village
 Peruvian university officials, stripped of 'Catholic' status, charge Opus Dei conspiracy
 Kansas City priest in landmark case pleads guilty to federal charges
 Contraceptive mandate seen detrimental to US economy
 US Catholics back bishops on religious freedom, but still favor Obama, poll shows
 Medical journal essays claim 'homophobia' aggravates AIDS epidemic
 Group returns CCHD grant, refuses to curb gay advocacy
 Pope Benedict has completed 3rd volume of Jesus of Nazareth
 Ancient depiction of Samson discovered?
 Appeals court blocks Arizona law against late-term abortions
 US bishops back Help for Separated Families Act
 Pakistan: 9 Christian nurses poisoned
 Congo’s bishops organize ‘march of hope’

Released Wednesday, Aug. 1

 Lawyers dominate fundraising for SNAP
 Egypt: Coptic teacher could face blasphemy charges for internet cartoon posts
 Spain becomes Europe's center for in-vitro procedures
 Lawyer for Pope's valet admits acquittal is unlikely
 Saudi woman may wear headscarf in Olympic competition, judges rule
 Minneapolis church scrubs appearance by state official in marriage-referendum dispute
 Australian clerics cool to program bringing priests from abroad
 Obama to speak at annual Al Smith dinner
 Bishops' statement on religious liberty applauded as break from previous public stands
 Massachusetts diocese could face legal action for refusal to sell retreat center
 Regular prayer is vital, Pope tells audience
 Swiss bishops urge reflection on attitude towards money
 Archbishop Wenski: acquiescence to threats to religious liberty is ‘not an option’
 Kansas bishops lament national debt
 Obama administration: secular employers ‘generally’ lack constitutionally-protected religious freedom
 Vatican spokesman challenges fellow Jesuits to focus on education, evangelization

Released Tuesday, Jul. 31

 6 former US envoys to Vatican announce support for Romney
 Australian investigators zero in on Church leaders in abuse cover-up
 Pope Benedict’s prayer intentions for August 2012
 Cuban dissident’s death was accidental: crash survivor
 Eucharistic adoration throughout Olympic Games
 The secular liturgy of the Olympic ceremony
 Same-sex attraction is not a gift, Christian essayist argues
 US report lists religious-freedom troubles worldwide
 Vietnamese activist’s mother in self-immolation
 3 brothers pursue priestly vocations
 Britain’s health service considers ‘elective ventilation’ for sake of organ donation
 At Olympic Mass, prelate calls upon Catholics to glorify God with their bodies
 Court backs Adventist in Sabbath work dispute
 Cardinal George criticizes Chicago mayor’s comments on Chick-fil-A
 Kenya’s bishops decry international push for contraception

Released Monday, Jul. 30

 Historian says scandal sapped strength of Catholic witness in US
 Irish columnist says Dublin archbishop needs to offer positive vision
 Vatican newspaper raps Gates Foundation, Nestle for exploiting needy women
 Papal condolences to Ghana on president's sudden death
 LCWR meets this week to decide response to Vatican
 Spanish abortion advocates protest government's plan to amend law
 Pope renews appeal for peace in Syria
 Douthat sees secular attack on religious freedom
 Jesus fills our deeper hunger, Pope says tells Sunday audience
 Russian punk singers face criminal trial for disruption at cathedral
 Republicans not seeking to block HHS contraceptive mandate?
 Prelate asked to leave Slovenia amid paternity rumors
 Vatican spokesman reflects on Olympics
 Positive media treatment of Catholic center for fertility care
 New Evangelization is ‘return to first love,’ says Vatican archbishop
 Prelate recalls suffering of Church in Cambodia
 New CDF prefect: relativism leads to ‘intolerance of God’
 China cracks down on priests who opposed illicit episcopal ordination

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