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Raymond Arroyo, Fr. Gerald Murray and Robert Royal examine the growing resistance to evangelization, the controversy over proselytizing, and whether the Church is losing sight of its fundamental mission: bringing ...

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller has warned that the expansion of Islam in Europe coincides with a profound identity crisis in the West, which is abandoning its Christian roots. “Muslims do ...

Bishop Robert Boxie reflected on why the United States has so few Black Catholic bishops, citing “racism” as the short answer. “I really enjoy the gift of a Black Catholicism, ...

Lawyers for an English bishop accused of raping a minor have asked the court to dismiss the case. Bishop David Oakley of Northampton appeared in court at the Old Bailey ...

The Synod published two new reports calling for lay faithful and other ecclesial groups to take a more direct role in bishops’ decisions and visits to Rome. On September 8, ...

Let’s imagine that you are a good friend of another woman whose husband has been cheating on her with different women. Because you do not approve of adultery, and because ...

“The church of Notre Dame itself may soon perhaps be erased from the earth.” ~~Victor Hugo, Notre Dame of Paris, 1831. Victor Hugo’s 1831 warning that Notre Dame might “soon ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has just published “Preaching on Faithful Citizenship 2026-Year A,” a set of homily suggestions for Sundays between September 13 and November 1, ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that prolonged, unreviewable immigration detention is unlawful and contrary to Catholic Social Teaching. The ...

The Diocese of Palm Beach, Florida, said an internal inquiry substantiated allegations that one of its priests committed sexual misconduct and abuse of power, among other accusations leveled against him ...

A new archbishop of Chongqing was consecrated in China on Tuesday after Pope Leo XIV appointed him on July 28 within the framework of the controversial Provisional Agreement between the ...

'It seems very strange that today the so-called LGBT Catholics can obtain a special Mass in St. Peter's more easily than Catholics attached to the Church’s Tradition,' a source told ...

The US bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development has funded Washington Interfaith Network, which is run by a pro-LGBT female ‘pastor’ and features radically pro-abortion non-Catholic clergy on its ‘strategy ...

A prominent cardinal expert on Church history has warned that the current style of synod being promoted in the Church is partly inspired by Protestantism and is part of the ...

Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference president, sent a letter on Tuesday (Sept. 8), urging President Donald Trump to cease the deportation of “large numbers” ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow local communities to regulate firearm ownership, weighing in on a high-profile federal case that could ...

A hundred or so traditional Catholics walked into Assisi last Sunday carrying wooden crosses, a statue of Our Lady, banners of St. Pius X, and the sort of religious baggage ...

The Archbishop of Barcelona received the first alert about the Guinardó parish priest in 2022, dismissed it as a “moral matter” and referred him to a psychologist. In September 2024 ...

The Last Stand: Christ or Chaos: The War for the West is an uncompromising book and film documentary written and narrated by Seth Gruber that is less entertainment and more ...

Politics and law are downstream of theology and philosophy. For better or for worse. It is currently September 2026 and the Lindsay Clancy trial was just declared a “mistrial.” As ...

Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro heads the Pontifical Academy for Life. Leo appointed him president barely three weeks after his election in May 2025, despite Pegoraro’s already public record of treating contraception ...