Catholic Nutshell News: Thursday 8/20/26
What Catholics should know: Free enterprise over socialism; Some Catholic schools go low-tech; ‘Best’ way to pray for Catholics?; & Bishops urge prayers against abortion by mail
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Catholic Nutshell News: Wednesday 8/19/26
Catholics should know: CRS gets $50 million for aid; Imam’s Daughter becomes a Catholic sister; Despair in upcoming generation; & Blacks are the most religious racial group
Catholic Nutshell News: Tuesday 8/18/26
Catholics should know: Excommunicated priest calls Popes ‘usurpers’; Europe’s tallest statue of Mary; Catholics: Use wealth to help poor; & Agreement with China - a ‘deal with the devil'
Catholic Nutshell News: Monday 8/17/26
Catholics should know: Little done to stop settler violence; Ortega fears the Catholic Church: ‘It’s always the Holy Spirit’; & ‘Proud Catholic’ identity defends abortion?
Catholic Nutshell News: Saturday 8/15/26
Catholics should know: Church-Freemasonry tensions in spotlight; Marian dogmas Catholic should know; Australian bishop found guilty; & The confidence crisis reaches the pews
Catholic Nutshell News: Friday 8/14/26
Catholics should know: Surrogate mother births baby, avoids abortion; Assumptions about Mary’s Assumption; Lebanon abolishes the death penalty; & Catholic schools in peripheries of Latin America
Catholic Nutshell News: Thursday 8/13/26
What Catholics should know: Calls for Healey's excommunication; Church doctrine, not courts, defines confession; Contrary versions of God; & Replace pride flags with rainbow symbol?
Catholic Nutshell News: Wednesday 8/12/26
Catholics should know: Trappist monk tortured in Mao communism dead at 108; Church in Africa has come of age; German crisis due to apostasy; & Loving those who ghost us
Catholic Nutshell News: Tuesday 8/11/26
Catholics should know: Rogue AI & 'killer' robots; Conversion therapy ban on the ropes; Church clamping down on Masons; & Christianity trumps little green men
Catholic Nutshell News: Monday 8/10/26
Catholics should know: Pope anxious for peace in Ukraine; Religious texts in public education; Baltimore deacon arrested; & Catholic social doctrine defies easy labels
Catholic Nutshell News: Saturday 8/8/26
Catholics should know: Homeless outreach must go beyond housing; Request for ‘white bishop’ sparks outrage; Abuse survivors go after parishes, schools; & Young women shift toward Democrats