Stories for week of October 13, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Saturday, Oct. 19

 Background: World Mission Sunday

Released Friday, Oct. 18

 Bishop Daly says Catholic hospitals ‘violating their mission’
 Former Archbishop of Canterbury backs assisted-suicide measure
 Trump raps Harris’ absence at Al Smith dinner
 Liberian president meets with Pontiff
 Swiss bishops rebuked for mishandling abuse complaints
 Former Israeli prime minister, Palestinian foreign minister present peace proposal to Pope Francis
 Synod, October 17: Chinese bishop professes adherence to ‘sinicization of Catholicism’
 11-year decline in worldwide priestly vocations continues
 Draft agenda announced for US bishops’ fall meeting
 Inaction on climate change will ‘spell disaster,’ Vatican diplomat warns
 New Peruvian cardinal, Italian bishop, Vatican official call for ‘post-clerical Church’

Released Thursday, Oct. 17

 Lawmakers question effects of abortion pill on water supply
 British man sentenced for silent prayer at abortion clinic
 Belgian Catholics ask to be ‘de-baptized’
 Pope pleads for inclusion of people with disabilities
 Italian senate votes to bar surrogacy abroad
 World Catholic population: rising in Africa, falling in Europe
 Australian archbishop: Synod cannot ‘reinvent faith’
 Papal autobiography to be published in January
 Los Angeles archdiocese pays an additional $880 million in abuse settlement
 Synod, October 16: pushback against devolution of doctrinal authority to episcopal conferences?
 Vatican diplomat calls for respect for indigenous communities
 Pope decries war, urges anti-hunger spending instead
 In World Food Day message, Pope calls for subsidiarity, solidarity
 ‘See with love, feel compassion, draw close, and take care’: papal encouragement for surgeons
 Pope tells Sicilian theologians their work can’t ignore Mafia, migration

Released Wednesday, Oct. 16

 Irish primate urges faithful to stop assisted suicide
 New York archdiocese sells headquarters building
 Trump leads among Catholics in battleground states, poll shows
 French archbishop reacts to public pagan imagery, consecrates archdiocese
 Treat patients as images of God, Pope urges doctors
 Cardinal Zuppi continues talks in Moscow to free Ukrainian children
 Pope, at general audience, reflects on the Holy Spirit in the Church’s faith
 Pope recalls October is month of the missions
 Renewed papal appeals for victims of world conflicts
 US bishops to vote for 5 committee chairmen
 Vatican diplomat: Advancement of women demands respect for motherhood
 Synod, October 15: Cardinal Hollerich calls for diffusion of synod’s ‘dynamism’; Cardinal Steiner calls for female diaconate

Released Tuesday, Oct. 15

 Cardinal Zuppi in Moscow again for peace talks
 Cardinal Hollerich introduces final ‘module’ of Synod working document
 Norwegian Christians unite against gender ideology
 How ‘Special Interest Advocacy’ works at the Synod on Synodality
 Synod, October 14: abuse of nuns, need for women in seminary formation discussed
 Leading Vatican diplomat deplores violations of children’s rights, including enslavement, abortion
 Cardinal-designate Radcliffe links African bishops’ opposition to homosexuality to pressure from evangelicals, Moscow, and Muslims
 Italian abbey marks 1,000 years
 Papal encouragement of children’s Rosary for unity and peace
 Vatican Secretary of State pays tribute to late progeria advocate Sammy Basso
 Synod, October 12: participants pray for migrants on synod’s least transparent day
 Pray for warmongers, Pope tweets

Released Monday, Oct. 14

 Christian themes earn ‘trigger warnings’ in English university curriculum
 Irish bishops urge welcome for immigrants
 Three arrested in killing of Honduran church worker
 Michigan governor denies anti-Catholic motive in video parody of Eucharist
 Pope meets again with US LGBT group previously denounced by Vatican
 Pope reflects on Jesus and the rich young man
 Eyes raised, hands joined, feet bare: papal letter to new cardinals
 Papal address: Christian unity is an unexpected gift, a journey, harmony, and for the sake of mission
 After papal audience, Argentine cabinet minister warns against making Pope a partisan figure
 New protocol facilitates Church’s legal rights in Burkina Faso
 Syriac Patriarch meets with Pontiff, rues situation in Lebanon
 Synod, October 11: opacity shrouds discussion of transparency, accountability in the Church
 Renewed papal appeal for Middle East ceasefire, including in Lebanon

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