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Republished from The Catholic Thing Dear Catholic Bishops, The poet John Milton wrote: “The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.” Church leadership is called upon to do the ...

Why have our bishops not taken the step of fraternally correcting Pope Francis? Pope Francis’ pronouncement seemingly supporting the legalization of homosexual civil unions has not only caused confusion and ...

No one should be surprised by the recent revelation that Pope Francis believes that civil unions between same-sex couples ought to be legal. Just as no one should be surprised ...

The pastor of a Roman Catholic church in Louisville confirmed a man was arrested for reportedly damaging the church’s altar Sunday. In a letter written to members of St. Martin ...

“Most Holy Father, for the sake of the salvation of your own immortal soul, for the sake of the souls of all those persons who through your approval of same-sex ...

Pope Francis announced the appointment of leading pro-LGBT bishops as cardinals Sunday amid the global bedlam unleashed by the pontiff’s remarks endorsing same-sex civil unions. Francis’ choice of “ultra-Bergoglians” included Abp ...

TODAY! October 26 at 12:00 p.m. CDT Abby Johnson : Johnson is an anti-abortion activist and author of Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader’s Eye-Opening Journey Across ...

In the aftermath of Pope Francis’s pronouncement in a just-premiered documentary seemingly supporting the legalization of gay civil unions, chaste same-sex attracted Catholics are struggling to find the right words ...

Police in Georgia have arrested Roman Catholic priest Patrick Wattigny on a St. Tammany Parish warrant accusing him of sexually abusing a minor while he was leading a Slidell church, ...

In a speech delivered today via video at the Catholic Identity Conference (CIC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò analyzes in depth the causes of the current Church crisis ...

Bishop Barron likes to promote the false thesis we can have a reasonable hope that all men are saved. “To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful ...

The CINO (cardinal in name only) belongs to an old and powerful clique of corrupt, self-serving Italians in the Roman curia. For centuries, they’ve formed a kind of Deep Church ...

A two-year investigation into sexual abuse in Michigan’s Catholic churches has, so far, identified 454 accused priests and 811 victims, and led to charges against 11 clergymen. Of the 11 ...

Scranton police are looking for the vandal who damaged a statue at the rectory of a Catholic church. Investigators said one person pulled down the statue of Mary outside the ...

A Virgin Mary statue was found vandalized outside of a church in Brooklyn. The incident happened at Resurrection Roman Catholic Church on Gerritsen Ave in Marine Park. According to Father ...

One must wonder if China might not have material with which it is blackmailing the Vatican. The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has confirmed today that the controversial ...

Theologians will undoubtedly now be debating whether the Pope’s comments constitute a public defection from the Catholic faith wherein his clerical office could be declared vacant. In stark and unprecedented ...

Bishop Robert Barron recently penned an article about the election which added more confusion than clarity to Catholic voters seeking direction from their bishops. Barron’s column left us feeling that ...

Should Biden win the presidency, he will be the “second practicing Catholic” to hold that office, the media informs us without irony. Neither John F. Kennedy, with his prodigious womanizing, ...

Pope Francis on Saturday accepted the resignation of the bishop of the Polish diocese of Kalisz who has been accused of shielding priests known to have sexually abused children. A ...

It was the only work of art left in the church to survive the fire. Workers found a mostly unscathed 18th century painting of the Virgin Mary buried beneath the ...