Stories for week of November 10, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Saturday, Nov. 16

 Background: World Day of the Poor

Released Friday, Nov. 15

 Cardinal Parolin defends Vatican deal with China
 Kenya’s bishops voice concern about lost trust in government
 Co-founder resigns after La Leche League opens to support breastfeeding males
 Nicaragua expels head of bishops’ conference
 Collaborate in God’s work, Pope tells craftsmen
 Study records over 2,000 hate crimes targeting European Christians in 2023
 Hostages freed from Gaza meet with Pope Francis
 Pope Francis: Pursuit of the common good is essential to the defense of human life
 Pontifical academy showcases member who supports abortion ‘rights’; prelate decries inequality
 Renewed papal appeal for UN climate change conference
 Pope evokes martyred Ukraine, machine-gunned Palestinians as he renews peace appeal
 US bishops vote in favor of beatification causes of Minnesota nun, Pennsylvania laywoman
 Vatican diplomat: UN peacekeeping missions are essential to fostering world peace, stability
 Polish priest murdered in rectory
 In Bangladesh, radicalization of Islam drives discrimination and attacks against Christians

Released Thursday, Nov. 14

 At USCCB meeting, prelate suggests return of meatless Fridays
 Non-Catholics should be recognized as martyrs, Pope says
 Barbados prime minister meets with Pontiff
 Argentine-born priest laicized after saying Francis is an anti-pope
 Catholic woman, fired for refusing Covid vaccine, wins court award
 Indian archbishop fears mounting anti-Christian violence
 Cardinal Becciu declares his innocence in open letter
 At Vatican conference, speakers call for more decisive episcopal action against abuse
 Argentine bishops elect new leadership
 Bahrain to sponsor digitization of Vatican Library’s Arabic documents
 US bishops select treasurer, committee chairmen
 Vatican bank president promotes faith-consistent investment funds
 Vatican diplomat condemns racism
 Pepper spray attack at Italian Marian shrine
 Burkina Faso: priest asks for ‘fervent prayers’ as jihadist attacks multiply

Released Wednesday, Nov. 13

 Pope stresses urgency of climate issue
 Pope underlines ‘vital mission’ of preventing abuse
 Papal encouragement for French group serving homeless
 French bishops issue guide for confessors in handling abuse
 Report finds widespread violations of Canada’s euthanasia law
 Bishop Strickland decries silence of fellow US bishops in crisis of faith
 Pope, at audience, speaks of Marian devotion
 Nuncio, USCCB president reflect on Eucharistic congress, synodality, duty to proclaim Gospel
 Cardinal Parolin announces upcoming publication of Blessed John Paul I’s Vatican II-era diaries
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ see Holy See diplomacy as ‘a field hospital amid a battle’
 Pope expands Vatican Archives and Library
 Vatican cardinal, in message, urges protection for family fishermen, ecosystems
 Pope laments attacks on hospitals, other civilian buildings in Ukraine
 Papal solidarity, prayer for disaster victims in Indonesia, Spain
 Pope to dine with 1,300 poor people, Vatican announces
 Nun attacked in Roman church
 Bomb destroys Colombian bishop’s residence and offices

Released Tuesday, Nov. 12

 Archbishop of Canterbury resigns
 New Orleans archbishop offers to resign—or stay through bankruptcy process
 Mumbai cardinal decries bid for anti-conversion law
 Kidnappers release Nigerian priest
 Spanish friar confirmed dead after violent beating by intruder
 USCCB committee chairman lauds work of pregnancy help centers
 19th-century Spanish priest beatified
 Pontiff hopes UN climate change conference will make ‘effective contribution’
 Vatican, Microsoft unveil AI-generated ‘digital twin’ of St. Peter’s
 Papal tribute to St. Bernard of Aosta, patron saint of mountaineers
 Pope thanks American philanthropists who funded Vatican’s COVID-19 commission
 ‘Rediscover the Rosary,’ Pope writes in message to Marian shrine of Pompei

Released Monday, Nov. 11

 Calls for resignation of Archbishop of Canterbury after ‘abhorrent’ abuse report
 Guam archdiocese sells headquarters
 New York archdiocese plans staff layoffs
 Ex-priest fired from New York Catholic school after abuse complaints
 Pope thanks technical workers at St. Peter’s basilica
 Synodality is key to ecumenism, Pope tells visitors from Indian church
 US bishops gather for annual meeting
 Priest stabbed at altar in Singapore
 Franciscan monk feared dead, several injured by assailant
 Parents of children provided vote margin for Trump
 Pope warns against hypocrisy, praises humble service
 Brazilian governor, Pope discuss Marian festival, climate change
 Joy, witness, solidarity: papal praise for blood donors
 Papal warning against globalized ideological education
 Pope receives Assyrian Patriarch, adds St. Isaac of Nineveh to Roman Martyrology
 Pontiff, European official discuss human rights, abducted Ukrainian children
 ‘We are children of one Father’: papal audience with Viennese volunteers, homeless

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Tue21 January
Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Agnes (c. 304). St. Agnes, like St. Cecilia, is to be numbered among the most famous martyrs of Rome. When the Diocletian persecution was at its height, and when priests as well as laymen were apostatizing from the faith, Agnes, a girl of twelve, freely chose to die…

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