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Join the call for Congress to investigate CRS by signing the petition. Well known Catholic politicians, academicians, media personalities and activists are asking Congress to investigate Catholic Relief Services (CRS) ...

Today I’d like to talk about something that might seem a bit trivial. Tacky religious vestments. But if you’ll bear with me, I think you’ll see that in something this ...

Former seminarian exposes homosexual predation problem. At age 17, I entered minor seminary at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania. It was the fall of 2010. I was the ...

Wherein the hierarchy defers to the state. Donald Trump wants to open up churches more than some church leaders do. No sooner had he proposed that churches be deemed “essential” ...

Today Governor Tim Walz announced he was revising his discriminatory restrictions on religious organizations.  Walz’s backtracked on his previous order which opened most non-essential businesses in Minnesota but continued to ...

My friend and colleague Jeff Mirus cautions us that we should not rush into judgment of our Church leaders; we should not leap to a premature conclusion that they are ...

UPDATE: Minnesota Governor Capitulates On Discriminatory Religious Restrictions “Please don’t go to church.” That was the admonition stated by New Brighton’s Mayor Valerie Johnson in a short video posted on ...

It’s beginning to look as though the pandemic that has hit the world like a global tsunami might be finally waning. In its wake, we find ourselves picking up the ...

A Texas man is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown and one of its churches, St. Catharine of Siena in Reading, claiming he was sexually abused and tortured by ...

After three days of testimony across two counties involving five victims, a former priest under the Catholic Diocese of Marquette in the Upper Peninsula is now headed to trial for ...

Governor Tim Walz gave a press conference, Wednesday, where he layed-out a “phased plan” to allow his state’s businesses to reopen. While his new agenda permits bars and resturants to ...

Homily by Fr. James Altman, St. James the Less, La Crosse, WI ...

Before “Who am I to judge?” and before the “throwaway culture,” as well as before his celebrated catalog of the 15 “spiritual diseases” of the Roman Curia, Pope Francis just ...

About a month ago, I posted about a blockbuster Church Militant story on sexual abuse scandal within the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, in particular in the town of ...

Marie Hargreaves has forgiven the cruel nun who she says allowed her to be molested at a home for orphans when was just a child. But the Pope, she says, ...

Homily by Fr. James Altman, St. James the Less, La Crosse, WI. RELATED STORY: Bishop Stika Forbids Communion on the Tongue Comments from the faithful regarding Father’s homliy: Perfect sermon ...

The Bible is replete with stories of people who suffer chastisements for placing strange Gods before the true God. But for Pope Francis, who this last week participated in a ...

Catholic News Service (CNS), the official news service of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) just posted the following Tweet: This is #LaudatoSi Week. May 24 is the ...

The head of Poland’s Roman Catholic Church has said he is asking the Vatican to investigate the cover-up of child sexual abuse by priests. Archbishop Wojciech Polak called on the ...

A document on human fraternity which Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar university, co-signed last year in Abu Dhabi, has been given a ringing endorsement in the ...

In several recent pronouncements, Pope Francis has hinted that the current coronavirus pandemic is a revenge of nature. “A Revenge of Nature”? In a March 22 interview with Spanish journalist ...