Columnist: Brian Fraga
Cardinal McElroy Claims Iran War Not Morally Legitimate
The United States' war with Iran is "not morally legitimate" because it fails several tenets of Catholic just war principles, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington said in a March 9 interview with ...
IT’S WORKING: Catholic Charities Agencies Halt Refugee Programs
"A new reality" is how Anita Hassell describes it. Catholic Charities in the St. Augustine Diocese in Florida has been operating in a difficult environment since Jan. 24, when the ...
Bishop Stowe Installs Women Acolytes: “I Waited Long Enough…”
Stowe proceeds despite USCCB not approving a change in its national policy. Nearly four years since Pope Francis changed canon law to allow women to be installed as lectors and ...
Bishop Gruss Blasts ‘Devout Catholic’ Joe Biden
A Catholic bishop in Michigan vilified President Joe Biden as a "stupid" Catholic "who is not living the life Jesus wants for him" during a presentation after a celebration of ...
Bishop Seitz Calls Border Controls ‘Transparently Political’ and ‘Racist’
Doesn't Bishop Seitz believe illegal immigration is a crime? National Catholic Reporter provides some details about Bishop Mark Seitz recent lecture at Fairfield University: "The attack on Annunciation House represents ...
Bishop Iffert Withdraws Support of Men’s Conference Because Speakers Have “Significant Baggage”
A Kentucky bishop has withdrawn from the speaker lineup of a Catholic men's conference in Cincinnati that the local archdiocese is not sponsoring or participating in because of the "significant ...
Gonzaga University Faces Its Own Complicity In Sexual Abuse Crisis
National Catholic Reporter reports that Gonzaga University, a Jesuit-run institution in the state of Washington, released a 46-page report on Sept. 1 from its University Commission on Gonzaga's Response to ...
Cost of Abuse in U.S. Nears $4 Billion
With 17,651 parishes in the United States, the cost of abuse now amounts to $56,655 per parish - imagine what your parish could do with this extra money? The Catholic ...
Abuse Crisis and Leadership Failure Having Impact on Church Giving
The Catholic Church in the United States has spent a staggering amount of money — close to $4 billion in the past 20 years — to investigate, adjudicate and prevent ...