How long can they deny the obvious? As I walked outside the hotel in Baltimore where the bishops gathered last week for their semiannual conference, I noticed a couple of bishops ...
Some critics suggest Pope Francis should resign One doesn’t have to be Roman Catholic or even Christian to recognize the great good the Catholic Church has done. America would be ...
LifeSite News, Church Militant and The Lepanto Institute are arguably on the front lines of the debate about homosexuality in the priesthood. Apparently, NBC News and the USCCB have had enough of it. NBC News ...
Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago and Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington collaborated extensively on a recently proposed policy for handling abuse allegations against bishops, CNA has learned. Cupich submitted the ...
Souls are being lost while the bishops fail to act. The Vatican’s stunning request that the American bishops press pause on voting on a plan to address the abuse crisis ...
In spite of the disappointing results of the 2018 USCCB Fall Conference, there were a few bishops that offered some inspiring interventions that should give us hope for the future of ...
Not only the US bishops but a significant portion of lay Catholics are discussing and pondering – almost obsessively — what can be done to address the sexual abuse crisis ...
Legatus is a national organization for Catholic business leaders. On November 16, its founder and CEO, Thomas Monaghan, sent this out to the membership: Dear fellow members, On September 6th, I ...
The annual Fall Meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which took place in Baltimore earlier this week, was a disappointment on many levels. Yet there were ...
Bishop Sean McKnight of Jefferson City wrote this letter to his flock after the 2018 USCCB Fall Conference. The November General Assembly of Bishops in Baltimore was a difficult but ...
The statement by all five bishops in Missouri is direct and blunt. So is their cover letter to Timothy L. Doherty. Doherty, bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, is the chairman of the ...
In ordering the U.S. bishops to abstain from voting on measures aimed at addressing clerical sex abuse, Pope Francis may have inadvertently performed the most consequential and costly act of his papacy ...
In this present crisis in the Church, with more and more revelations of a “sodomitic filth that insinuates itself like a cancer in the ecclesiastical order” (St. Peter Damian), and the ...
It was with the proverbial whimper that the recent USCCB meeting in Baltimore went out. The hoped-for and indeed expected bang was thwarted by forces without and within. The Vatican ...
The Catholic church’s secrets could become public information if a federal lawsuit succeeds. A federal lawsuit is asking the court to order Catholic leaders to name predator priests nationwide. The ...
On the last day of their fall meeting, the U.S. bishops’ conference voted down a resolution that would have “encouraged” the Holy See to release all documents on the allegations ...
In a forceful interview with Italian Vaticanist Aldo Maria Valli, Msgr. Nicola Bux has warned that the current pontificate is issuing statements that are generating “heresies, schisms, and controversies of ...
A retired Scranton bishop who allegedly helped cover up decades of sex abuse cases defied the diocese and attended a national Catholic conference at which U.S. bishops were considering new ...
The USCCB’s uselessness as an agent of holiness is on display yet again. In the early days of Baltimore, if a Catholic leader had proposed a religious gathering at a ...
The outgoing and incoming chairpersons of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) National Advisory Council (NAC) delivered stirring presentations on the sex abuse crisis at the fall gathering ...