Columnist: Ed Condon
Have The German Bishops Finally Lost Their Synodal Majority?
The chairman of the German bishops’ conference has suggested that the first scheduled meeting of a controversial synodal body will be delayed absent approval of its statutes by the Vatican ...
Is the Vatican About to Lose Millions More on the Peter’s Pence London Property Fiasco?
While the fate of the Vatican’s criminal prosecution over the infamous London property deal appears to hang in the balance in the city state’s court, a number of legal developments ...
Peña Parra Appointment: Exile or Probation?
Pope Leo XIV on Monday ordered the biggest curial personnel change of his first year in office, transferring the sostituto of the Secretariat of State, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, to ...
The Vatican Court’s Double Standards
The Vatican City Court of Appeal issued a decision Tuesday ordering a review of the investigation and indictment which opened the landmark financial crimes trial in 2022. The March 17 ...
Leo Demotes African Priest Who Tried To Enforce Priest Chastity
Gnéba was not a recently arrived outsider to the diocese who took sudden and dramatic action based on a first or partially formed impression of the local Church. The Vatican ...
Denver Seminarians Participate In Bizarre ‘Yeti Blood Oath’ Ceremony
Clergy in the Archdiocese of Denver are divided over the handling of a controversial “blood oath” ceremony involving a vice rector and seminarians during a ski trip last year. A ...
Pope Leo and Libero Milone: Will Anything Change in the ‘Other’ Vatican Financial Trial?
In one week, a Vatican City court will reconvene to consider the next phase of appeal in a lawsuit brought by the first and former Vatican auditor general against his ...
Can Pope Leo Afford to Wait on ‘Traditionis Custodes’?
New restrictions on the celebration of both the ordinary and extraordinary forms of the liturgy will take effect in the Archdiocese of Detroit from July 1st, Archbishop Edward Weisenburger has ...
The Rule of Law (or the Lack Thereof) in the Francis Pontificate
The problem for the Church’s life, and for the application of justice, comes when the Pope appears to convey disregard or indifference for the uniform application of the law—even laws ...
Have All U.S. Bishops Caved On McElroy?
The basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception was full, and the entrance processional snaked around the nave, as thousands of Catholics and hundreds of clerics from across ...
Never Again?
‘Zero-tolerance’ is supposed to be a reality, not a slogan I spent my first year in journalism wondering how, how something as big as McCarrick could play out in plain ...
Is Bergoglio Beginning To Panic About Vatican Finances?
Pope Francis has called for renewed commitment to curial cost-cutting in a letter to the College of Cardinals, and signaled that Vatican departments may be called upon to share their ...
Pope Tells Dissident Nun: Trans People ‘Must be Accepted’
Pope Francis has said transgender people must be “accepted and integrated into society” in a private letter to the founder of a dissident Catholic ministry. The letter was addressed to ...
What If The Vatican Actually Goes Broke?
The Holy See is, by its own accounting, in serious financial straits. While some curial asset managers have begun to show modest-to-moderate returns in recent years, donations remain down and ...
‘Cardinal Bigfoot’ and the Return of La Suprema?
Barely six months into his term as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has certainly made his mark on his office. In ...
In Media Blitz, Cardinal Becciu Insists He’s Not a Crook
With the Vatican City court due to deliver its verdict in the landmark financial crimes trial in just three weeks, defendant Cardinal Angleo Becciu has once again insisted on his ...
Papal Nuncio Has Isolated Himself U.S. Bishops
When Archbishop Timothy Broglio began on Tuesday morning his USCCB presidential address on the state of the Church in the U.S., he quoted from scripture, urging that “whoever has ears ...
It the Vatican a Den of Spies?
The Vatican financial trial in its final recess, before defense attorneys make their closing arguments after the August break and the judges adjourn to consider their verdict. While the judges ...
How The Jesuits Could Have Laicized Accused Serial Sex Abuser Marko Rupnik
The Society of Jesus on Monday released a letter on the case of Fr. Marko Rupnik, the disgraced religious artist and priest who was expelled from the order earlier this ...
How Rome Lost the Vatican-China Deal
The Vatican’s recognition is the latest sanation by Rome of a canonically illegal move by the Communist Party controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, which has exerted increasingly unilateral control over ...
Bishop Befriended By Bergoglio Behind Bars
The criminal conviction of Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta for the sexual abuse of seminarians has sent shock waves through the Argentine Catholic Church, and the Vatican. The conviction also raises ...
