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Stories for May 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Thursday, May. 16

 Pope lauds ecumencial ties with Greek Orthodox
 Reverse climate change, Pope demands
 Latvian president meets with Pontiff
 Filipino bIshops oppose Chinese naval blockade
 Nuncio pays tribute to vibrancy of Catholic minorities in Arab nations
 ‘De-ideologize’ end-of-life issues and accompany the dying, Archbishop Paglia urges
 Pope blesses ‘voice of the unborn’ bell
 Vatican hosts climate summit for political leaders, scientists
 Ecumenical Patriarch, Mecca imam speak at dialogue conference
 USCCB announces $7.5M in home mission grants
 Papal prayer for peace, appeal for aid to flood-stricken Afghanistan
 Progressive Judaism leaders meet with Pope Francis, ask for prayer for release of hostages

Released Wednesday, May. 15

 Everyone can build peace, Pope writes in new book
 Register editorial urges Pope to see US Catholicism first-hand
 US bishops discuss polarization
 Critical evaluation of Vatican-China agreement
 Pro-life activist sentenced to almost five years in jail
 Leading Polish prelate accused of negligence in addressing abuse
 Survey finds broad public support for abortion persists 2 years after Dobbs
 Burundi’s bishops lament extrajudicial abductions, killings
 Pope Francis, at general audience, reflects on virtue of charity
 Elderly priests meet with Pope at Roman parish
 Vatican, Chinese prelates, scholars to mark 100th anniversary of Council of Shanghai
 Report: Burkina Faso’s military executed Christians in 2 villages

Released Tuesday, May. 14

 Australian archbishop blasts ‘organized campaign’ against Christian morality
 Buffalo diocese curbs media contacts
 Pope decries attitude that elderly are a burden
 Brooklyn auxiliary bishop cleared of negligence charges
 Wall Street Journal examines ‘how 20 years of same-sex marriage changed America’
 Address nation’s maternal health crisis, bishops urge Congress
 US bishops to discern future of controversial anti-poverty program at spring meeting
 Vatican announces ways to obtain special 2025 Jubilee Indulgence
 ‘We have nothing left except the church,’ young Gaza Catholic writes
 ‘Make yourself a gift for God, in order to be a gift of God,’ Pope tells Montevergine’s monks
 Pope asks Vatican’s paleographers, librarians to be open to dialogue, exchange
 Ecuador’s president meets with Pontiff, one month after embassy storming
 Papal tweet evokes Fatima’s call to conversion, penance

Released Monday, May. 13

 Decline in birth causes fears for future
 Pope urges obedience to Syro-Malabar liturgical rules
 Teen with rifle disrupts First Communion Mass in Louisiana
 Oblates voice concern about priests detained in Belarus
 Nigerian Catholic school closed after terrorist attack
 Workers at Vatican Museums file labor complaint
 ‘Work for security, justice and peace in the Sahel,’ papal message urges
 Bavaria supports the Church and the protection of life, leader says following papal audience
 Children’s Declaration on Fraternity signed during papal meeting with children
 Peace in politics, in the world starts in people’s hearts, Pope says at World Meeting on Human Fraternity
 Papal appeals for prayers for peace, mothers
 Pope: Holy See ready to facilitate exchange of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war
 Step by step, Jesus leads us to heaven, Pope tells pilgrims

Released Sunday, May. 12

 Background: World Communications Day

Released Friday, May. 10

 Pope ‘very likely’ to visit Luxembourg later this year?
 Washington attorney general charges archdiocese with impending abuse probe
 Bishop Paprocki charges Biden with sacrilege
 Papal encouragement for Massachusetts college
 Pope lists priorities for theological study
 Avoid ‘rubricism’ in liturgy, Pope cautions
 Pope urges generosity to counter declining birth rates
 New York State files suit against pro-life pregnancy centers to end abortion-pill reversals
 USCCB releases updated list of catechetical resources deemed in conformity with Catechism
 Charity coordinator examines ‘remarkable increase’ of Protestantism in Honduras
 Ghanian bishop calls on political candidates to emphasize environmental protection
 Pope mourns victims of attack on displaced persons in DR Congo
 Pope Francis solemnly proclaims 2025 jubilee year, issues bull ‘Hope Does Not Disappoint’
 Papal aid for flood-stricken Brazilians

Released Thursday, May. 9

 Texas attorney general files injunction against Catholic agency for migrants
 City of Rome bracing for Jubilee Year pilgrims
 Catholic broadcasters challenge FCC rule on collecting employee data
 Appeals court finds for Catholic school in dismissal of homosexual teacher
 Vatican removes block on gay-friendly university dean
 Texas archdiocese keeps distance from archbishop’s comments on Gaza campaign
 Cause moves forward for beatification of Communion and Liberation founder
 Killings of Christians continue in Nigeria
 Blood is ‘flowing everywhere’ in Ethiopia, prelate says
 USCCB committee chairman backs bill compensating nuclear radiation exposure victims
 Pope recalls Our Lady of Luján, Pompeii
 Logos, mottoes released for papal Asian trip
 Peruvian bishops decry euthanasia
 Chile’s bishops, president discuss security, migrants
 Cardinal Zuppi, leading EU bishop pen letter to ‘dearest European Union’
 Papua New Guinea indigenous leader, Pope discuss defense of creation
 Pope urges parish priests to become missionaries of synodality

Released Wednesday, May. 8

 Orthodox spokesman: Fiducia Supplicans complicates ecumenical talks
 Australian bishops approve new aboriginal liturgy
 Czech man convicted for stealing pectoral cross of Benedict XVI
 Pope sees challenges for work after Laudato Si’
 Pray the Rosary for peace, Pope urges
 Times columnist considers ‘why conservative and liberal Catholics can’t escape one another’
 South Korean dioceses seek to counter low birth rate
 Pope Francis, at general audience, reflects on virtue of hope
 Fight anti-Semitism and defend Palestinian rights, convert priest urges
 Cardinal says goal of upcoming Vatican human fraternity meeting is a ‘renewed charter of humanity’
 Catholic church in occupied Ukraine is rededicated as Russian Orthodox church
 In protecting forests, remember the well-being of local people, Vatican diplomat says at UN
 Vatican newspaper decries Tunisia’s expulsion of migrants

Released Tuesday, May. 7

 US commission targets Iran for religious-freedom violations
 American Catholics differ on abortion, euthanasia, death penalty
 Vatican document on Marian apparitions due May 17
 San Francisco archdiocese holds prayer service for Jimmy Lai
 Why was an old papal title restored?
 New bishop named for troubled Knoxville diocese
 Catholic students praying Rosary attacked in Indonesia
 Bolivian Jesuits deny they are a ‘criminal organization’
 President Biden issues statement for Orthodox Easter
 USCCB issues National Statutes for the Christian Initiation of Adults
 Ukraine is being crucified, Catholic leader says in Easter message
 Climate change photo exhibition on display in St. Peter’s Square
 Pope to take part in Corpus Christi Mass, procession
 Vatican, French embassy to host international conference on sport and spirituality
 Vatican message to Buddhists emphasizes peace through reconciliation, resilience
 ‘No to war, yes to dialogue’: renewed papal plea

Released Monday, May. 6

 Pope sends Easter greetings to Eastern churches
 Chaplain at Columbia says leftists organized campus protests
 Albanian President meets with Pontiff
 Weapons confiscated during Sunday papal audience
 Swiss government invites Pope to Ukraine peace conference
 Irish bishop: no policy can stop Church advocacy for life
 Washington Post features transexuals at Vatican
 Swiss Guard recruits receive Pope’s thanks, encouragement
 Swiss president meets with Pontiff
 Parishioner discusses plight of Gaza’s Catholics
 Your ministry to married couples is important, Pope tells leaders of Teams of Our Lady
 Vatican diplomat, at UN, links population growth to prosperity, warns against population control
 Papal encouragement for Amsterdam’s Catholics
 Papal interview: nostalgia for trains, call for ‘healthy pressure’ to protect environment
 Pope encourages reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
 Leave behind Tridentine model of priesthood, embrace synodality, Cardinal Hollerich bids parish priests
 Papal Regina Caeli reflection on friendship with Jesus

Released Friday, May. 3

 Offer education especially to the needy, Pope urges
 Pursue simple life, not impossible ideals, Pope recommends
 New York diocese moves to dismiss bankruptcy, in impasse with creditors
 Chinese diocese closes year devoted to Catechism
 Spanish bishop rips government’s ‘obsessive’ focus on abuse
 Public statement calls for Pope’s resignation
 African bishops prepare study on responses to polygamy
 Bishop named for troubled Nigerian diocese
 Vatican announces 37 jubilee events
 Papal encouragement of Marian entrustment, prayer for peace during May
 Papal video: ‘Every vocation is a diamond in the rough’
 Ecumenical Patriarch issues Easter encyclical
 Theologian critiques Cardinal Fernández’s theology of charity
 Papal tribute to classic Fellini film
 It is ‘terrible to earn with death’: Pope denounces weapons factories
 Anglican primate signs AI ethics statement backed by pontifical academy
 Pope to speak at event on Italy’s record-low birth rate

Released Thursday, May. 2

 Trump gaining among Catholic voters, poll shows
 Jordan’s king meets with Pontiff
 Holy Land prelate mystified by US campus protests
 Pope seeks ‘patient’ ecumenical dialogue with Anglicans
 Pope says society must accept transgender people
 Florida bishops’ conference ‘pleased’ by public school chaplains
 Pope Francis writes to world’s parish priests, encourages ‘synodal and missionary’ Church
 Father Rupnik’s alleged victims rue upcoming mosaic dedication at world’s 2nd-largest church
 New Orleans archdiocese is target of child sex-trafficking inquiry, officials say
 Federal court upholds forced resignation of Indiana teacher who declined to use preferred pronouns
 Arizona lawmakers vote to repeal law protecting most unborn children from abortion
 Bishops’ conference posts 30-minute video touting CCHD
 USCCB committee chairman criticizes requirement to perform transgender procedures

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