Daily News

Morning must-reads

August 7

Holy Land Franciscan rips Israeli occupation of Gaza

Says those who can intervene are 'watching in silence'

Congo bishops demand justice after church massacre

Police, military didn’t act in time; still no arrests made

Buffalo diocese lays off 18, or 22%, of chancery staff

Months after making $150M settlement with abuse victims

Benin: Amid terror threats, mission sisters will remain

They run a girls' boarding school in majority-Muslim region

NJ Catholic school went classical in 2015, now thrives

Priest saved school on verge of closure; now 350 students

UK profs blame parenting for gender gap in STEM

Propose intervention even at micro-level of friendships

August 6

Pope Leo: ‘Nuclear arms offend our shared humanity'

Message for 80th anniv. of atomic bombings in Japan

Broglio thanks Trump for nixing abortion policies at VA

Killing halted at VA medical centers & via health benefits

Shroud of Turin center disputes new debunking claim

Brazilian artist suggests use of 'low-relief model,' not body

Sudan: 640,000 young children are at risk of cholera

Due to malnutrition after two years of war, displacement

Catholic architect to design White House ballroom

McCrery is prominent in U.S. revival of classical architecture

Naples: Msgr. credits miraculous event to St. Charbel

Blessed oil for anointing the faithful was replenished

August 5

Miami archdiocese holds first Mass at Alligator Alcatraz

Request for pastoral care of detainees was accommodated

Irish missionary kidnapped from Haiti orphanage

Along with seven employees & a three-year-old child

U.S. destroys $10M in contraceptives meant for Africa

Leftovers from terminated Biden-era USAID contracts

Next World Youth Day to be 1st in non-Christian country

S. Korea, where 31% of population is Christian, 11% Catholic

EU org reports on 'anti-rights religious extremists'

Focuses on Church as 'puppet master,' ignores Islam

U.S. Catholics donate funds for Nagasaki cathedral bell

From Santa Fe, Seattle archdioceses; sign of reconciliation

August 4

Pope celebrates Mass for 1 million at Jubilee of Youth

Preaches, 'Aspire to greatness, holiness, wherever you are'

200 outdoor confessionals set up for Jubilee youth

And Youcat distributed 10,000 books on the sacrament

Senate confirms Brian Burch as Holy See ambassador

CatholicVote founder was initially blocked by Dems

India: Two Kerala-based nuns are released on bail

Amid protests; bishops urge immediate ending of case

Fed. court: Abortion-pill reversal ministry can continue

Partially blocking Colo. state law that aimed to halt it

Critics question Vatican-Azerbaijan interfaith pact

Say Azeris are covering cleansing of Armenian Christians

August 1

North Carolina enacts law on trans issues, porn access

And religious school opt-outs; overriding governor's veto

Miami archbp. urges pastoral care at Alligator Alcatraz

Wenski & his prison ministry staff have been denied access

16 state AGs oppose abortion shield laws in joint letter

Which protect abortionists from pro-life laws in other states

Seminaries today see psych evaluations as vital tool

For gatekeeping; factor in U.S. seminary 'renaissance'

New study backs 2012 finding on kids of gay parents

Who fare worse than kids with married mother & father

Wales: Anglicans elect first female, lesbian archbishop

Her bio says she lives with her civil partner & two dogs

July 31

St. John Henry Newman to be declared Doctor of Church

Vatican hasn't said when or which Latin title he will get

France, Australia & UK no longer majority Christian

Per Pew; due to more people claiming no religious faith

German bishop defends Barron's award of Pieper Prize

Blasts Germany's 'well-financed' but 'beige' Catholicism

Burke, Cordileone to celebrate Mass of the Americas

TLM part of Project Guadalupe 2031, pre-500th anniv.

Victims agree $246M settlement in Rochester diocese

After six years of wrangling in U.S. bankruptcy court

College pressured med student to watch abortion

Indian-American Catholic is now suing Springfield College

July 30

Protestant coalition sues over ICE arrests at churches

Evangelical Lutherans, Quakers, Baptists, independents

Arrest of two nuns at railway station roils Indian politics

Held on charges of human trafficking, religious conversion

DDF allows private devotion for alleged apparitions

Italian man claims he's received Marian visions since '09

Talitha Kum: Pray & advocate for trafficking victims

70% of which are women & children, and 1 in 4 is a child

Vietnamese Catholics head to MO for Marian pilgrimage

Started in 1978 for the 'boat people' to gather, give thanks

Cardinal Parolin reiterates call for Palestinian state

Says in Gaza the 'new weapon being used is starvation'

July 29

Jerusalem patriarchs rip further assault on Christians

Israeli settlers again target West Bank town of Taybeh

Iconic church in Paris closed after 2 fires in 48 hours

Notre Dame des Champs; arson after an accidental fire

Cdl. Sarah marks 400th anniv. of apparition of St. Anne

Preaches, ‘Do not profane France, for it is holy ground'

Canon Law prof Ed Peters fired by Detroit archbishop

Like R. Martin & E. Echeverria, he had criticized Francis

Priest: 30% of Niger’s Catholics have fled their villages

As jihadists advance & amid widespread malnutrition

World’s largest PP clinic to close due to lack of funding

In Houston; which killed 10,000 babies/year, up to 24 wks

July 28

Vatican newspaper rips Israeli claim of no Gaza famine

Points out IDF will allow others to airdrop food there

DR Congo: Over 40 dead in massacre at Catholic church

ISIS-linked gunmen storm church during prayer vigil

Strong response to priest-recruitment program in NYC

Nearly 800 young men express interest in vocation

Italian's healing recognized as 72nd Lourdes miracle

Her 2009 recovery from ALS defies medical explanation

Church historian, SLU prof James Hitchcock dies at 87

Bestselling author, founder of U.S. edition of Communio

Auckland NZ: Mass attendance rises 10% in one year

And 500 were received into the Church at Easter

July 25

U.S. children’s hospitals end trans surgeries on minors

Some even nix drugs, due to rising legal & regulatory risks

Contractors expose Israel's 'hunger games' in Gaza

American men tell horror stories at aid distribution sites

L.A. archdiocese sets up new fund for immigrants

Backed by biz leaders, to help families affected by raids

Detroit archbp. fires Ralph Martin, Eduardo Echeverria

Both critiqued doctrinal ambiguity under Pope Francis

MO sues PP for ‘systematically’ lying on abortion pills

AG seeks civil penalties, up to $1K each for its past clients

U.S. bishops call for repeal of 'discriminatory' FACE Act

Remind that brethren opposed it when passed in 1994

July 24

Diocese of Rochester abuse settlement reaches $246M

For 450 who emerged after statute of limitations was lifted

HHS exposes ethical failures in organ transplant system

Hospitals have allowed it when patients 'show signs of life'

House report: FBI spied on Richmond-area SSPX priest

They discussed his location, travel plans, credit-card info

DR Congo Catholic church desecrated by armed group

Hosts scattered, Mary shrine looted, vestments destroyed

U.S. Olympics bans men from women’s sports

After Trump order & 'constructive' meetings with feds

Lawmakers draft bill to protect pope’s U.S. citizenship

Nixes obligation to file U.S. tax returns, disclose income

July 23

Pope deplores arms trade as he returns to Vatican

Urges rejecting 'the moneymaking that is behind every war'

Caritas Internationalis rips Israeli actions in Gaza

'History will not forgive this barbarism and complicity'

French bishop ‘corrects' confrere's ‘appalling’ decision

Who appointed convicted rapist as diocesan chancellor

Judge blocks abortion funding ban in ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Lawfare aims to force taxpayers to keep bankrolling killing

Pope Leo declares healing of R.I. newborn a miracle

Advancing cause of Don Salvador Valera Parra of Spain

'Three-parent baby' technique makes 'no-parent babies'

DNA passes to child via destroyed embryo who is cloned

July 22

Cardinal Parolin laments 'war without limits' in Gaza

Asks how population can be 'destroyed, starved like this?'

U.S. lawmakers condemn Christian persecution abroad

Urge Trump to leverage diplomatic tools for rel. freedom

Haiti: Church under siege as missionaries struggle

Gang members appropriate large religious residences

Cologne archdiocese: Canonical complaint ‘baseless’

Lodged by official advisory body to German bishops

Priests attend 'preaching boot camp' at Catholic U.

Vocal teacher imparts ‘lost art’ of giving effective sermon

Pope spending part of July & Aug. at Castel Gandolfo

Vatican won't confirm or deny his use of local tennis club

July 21

Pope calls for 'immediate halt to the barbarity' in Gaza

Decries 'collective punishment' & 'forced displacement'

Leo & Netanyahu talk after attack on Gaza church

For over an hour; about holy sites, grim humanitarian crisis

U.S. official calls Netanyahu 'madman’ for Syria strike

'He bombs everything all the time,' undermines negotiation

Jerusalem cardinal Pizzaballa preaches at Gaza parish

Tells stricken parish with 3 dead, 'You are not forgotten'

Amid U.S. deportations, bishops rally for immigrants

Some waive Sun. Mass obligation for those fearing arrest

St. JPII rector: U.S. seminaries are in a ‘golden age’

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