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Less-Redacted Maryland Report Still Redacts Several Names of Church Leaders

Less-Redacted Maryland Report Still Redacts Several Names of Church Leaders

Maryland’s attorney general released some previously redacted names in its staggering report on child sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore on Tuesday, but the names of five Catholic church ...
Belgian Bishop Says Vatican Has Snubbed Pleas To Defrock Pedophile Ex-Colleague

Belgian Bishop Says Vatican Has Snubbed Pleas To Defrock Pedophile Ex-Colleague

A prominent Belgian bishop on Sept. 27 criticized the Vatican for failing to defrock a former bishop who admitted sexually abusing children, saying it had led to massive frustration with ...
Victims March to Rome to Demand 'Zero Tolerance' on Church Abuse

Victims March to Rome to Demand ‘Zero Tolerance’ on Church Abuse

Reuters, Staff
A group of Catholic Church abuse victims and their advocates on Wednesday called on Pope Francis to enforce “zero tolerance” against clerical sex abuse, after completing a six-day pilgrimage to ...
Fr. Perricone: Is Opposition to Illegal Immigration a Sin?

Fr. Perricone: Is Opposition to Illegal Immigration a Sin?

To quickly answer the question asked by the title of this article: Of course not. But listening to most Church leaders today, a Catholic would think that it is one ...
Bishop Victor Fernandez: From Church to Movement

Bishop Victor Fernandez: From Church to Movement

On September 11, another of Argentina’s most beloved sons, Archbishop Victor Fernández, took office as Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Two Argentines are at the top ...
The Ravages of Father Rupnik

The Ravages of Father Rupnik

This is the first article being published in a series of five articles. At a time when ecclesiastical movements are emerging that appear to want to clean up the image ...
Knoxville Priest Weighs-In on Bishop Stika’s Tenure

Knoxville Priest Weighs-In on Bishop Stika’s Tenure

The Pillar, Staff
When Bishop Rick Stika resigned from the Diocese of Knoxville in June, he said in a statement that he hoped to find “relief” from the responsibilities he experienced as a ...
Can the Pope Survive the Rupnik Scandal?

Can the Pope Survive the Rupnik Scandal?

Unherd, Damian Thompson
It’s the eyes — swollen, dark and merciless — that everyone notices. They stare out from the mosaic walls of some of the most beloved shrines in the Catholic World, ...
Synod Website Features Artwork of Accused Serial Sex Abuser

Synod Website Features Artwork of Accused Serial Sex Abuser

Catholic Vote, Staff
The official homepage of the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality features artwork by the disgraced former Jesuit Fr. Marko Rupnik. Rupnik’s mosaic art has been used in many places of prominence ...
Bishop Strickland Pastoral Letter #5: Same-Sex ‘Blessings’ - God Does Not and Cannot Bless Sin

Bishop Strickland Pastoral Letter #5: Same-Sex ‘Blessings’ – God Does Not and Cannot Bless Sin

From the Diocese of Tyler, Texas: My Dear Sons and Daughters in Christ: I write to you today to discuss more fully the fourth basic truth that I spoke of ...
Bishops Lobbying Congress - Was this Part of the Great Commission?

Bishops Lobbying Congress – Was this Part of the Great Commission?

Jeff Mirus
I was glad to see that the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops included the need to reduce “unsustainable deficits” in his offer to help congressional leaders ...
Polish Priest Investigated After 'Gay Orgy' At His Apartment

Polish Priest Investigated After ‘Gay Orgy’ At His Apartment

Daily Mail, Ed Wright
A priest who ordered a male prostitute and then called an ambulance after his friend collapsed from an overdose of erectile dysfunction pills is being investigated by prosecutors. According to ...
WATCH: Cardinal Marx Will Bless Homosexual Unions - Give Communion to Protestants

WATCH: Cardinal Marx Will Bless Homosexual Unions – Give Communion to Protestants

Your browser does not support the video tag. Church Militant’s Rome correspondent, Dr. Jules Gomes, reports Cdl. Marx is praising Duke Franz of Bavaria and his lifelong partner, Dr. Thomas ...
Archbishop of Milan Issues Pastoral Guidance for Homosexual Unions

Archbishop of Milan Issues Pastoral Guidance for Homosexual Unions

The archbishop of Europe’s largest archdiocese in terms of number of Catholic faithful has been criticized for releasing pastoral guidelines that appear to define homosexual attraction as love, and equating ...
Swiss Bishops’ President Calls for Ordination of Women, Married Priests Ahead of Synod

Swiss Bishops’ President Calls for Ordination of Women, Married Priests Ahead of Synod

The president of the Swiss Bishops’ Conference has made the heterodox claim that the Catholic Church should ordain women. As reported by Swissinfo this past weekend, Bishop Felix Gmür, who ...
Archbishop Aguer: The Synod on Synodality is Leading Souls from the Truth of Christ and His Church

Archbishop Aguer: The Synod on Synodality is Leading Souls from the Truth of Christ and His Church

Synod is the exact translation of the Greek noun synodos. It is interesting to collect the elements from which the word is formed: syn, as an adverb, means “whole, all ...
The Danger of Legitimizing Francis’s Synodal Church

The Danger of Legitimizing Francis’s Synodal Church

But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.” (Matthew 5:37) Almost two years ago, Francis opened his Synod ...
Liquefaction of the Faith on the Eve of the Synod

Liquefaction of the Faith on the Eve of the Synod

On Wednesday of next week, the Synod (it is no longer a Synod of Bishops because of Pope Francis’ expanded circle of participants) on Synodality will begin in Rome. Its ...
The Rupnik Affair Will Leave an Indelible Mark on the Francis Papacy

The Rupnik Affair Will Leave an Indelible Mark on the Francis Papacy

How bad is this Rupnik business? It is very, very bad. The Rupnik business is worse—by orders of magnitude—than l’Affaire Barros, l’Affaire Inzoli, worse even than l’Affaire Zanchetta. The disgraceful ...
WATCH: Fr. Mark Goring on Women Deacons and St. Padre Pio

WATCH: Fr. Mark Goring on Women Deacons and St. Padre Pio

Fr. Mark Goring offers a powerful homily regarding women deacons and St. Padre Pio ...
Alternative Catholic Synod to Push Case for Ordination of Women Priests

Alternative Catholic Synod to Push Case for Ordination of Women Priests

They make up more than half its membership, they have been denied a say for centuries in the way it is run: but, early next month, women will gather in ...
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