Columnist: JD Flynn
Prevost’s Papal Prospects Prompt Pushback
As the Church’s College of Cardinals prepare to enter the papal conclave Wednesday, American Cardinal Robert Prevost is reportedly among the prelates most-discussed for election to the papal office. While ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cardinal McCarrick and Bishop Belo — On Sexual Abuse, Has Anything Really Changed?
The Vatican acknowledged Thursday that it imposed restrictions in 2020 on the ministry and residency of Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is accused of sexually ...
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 ...
New Investigation Implicates Parolin and Becciu in Vatican Financial Scandal
Italian authorities announced on Monday that an arrest warrant has been issued for Gianluigi Torzi, who brokered the Vatican’s 2018 purchase of a London property. The Italian court order raises ...
Priest Jailed for Theft Blames Catholic Doctrine, Also Facing Sex Abuse Charges
When will bishops finally acknowledge that homosexuality IS the cancer that is destroying the Catholic Church? A South Dakota priest has been sentenced to almost eight years in federal prison, ...
USCCB Official “Elated Over Biden’s Choice of Harris
Official's comment reveals USCCB is in the bag for Biden/Harris. An official at the U.S. bishops’ conference said Thursday that the selection of Senator Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s presidential ...
Archbishop Gregory LIED After Promising to ALWAYS Tell the Truth
Gregory told the White House in May that he couldn’t attend Trump’s visit to the JPII shrine. Then when it happened he was suddenly outraged – and he claimed he only ...
The U.S. Church Is Going Broke
Well into the pandemic’s grip on American public life, parishes and dioceses are preparing a return to some new kind of normal. Masses are resuming, albeit for small numbers in ...
More Than Our Appetites
Fr. James Martin, S.J., avers that his advocacy does not challenge Catholic doctrine on homosexuality. He has made a point of publishing an essay delineating Church teaching on the subject ...
Vatican Orders Additional Investigation Into Bishop Hoeppner
The Diocese of Crookston announced Tuesday that the Vatican has ordered additional investigation into the conduct of Bishop Michael Hoeppner, the first U.S. bishop to be investigated through a process ...
Rossi Investigation Still ‘Underway’ 4 Months After It Began
Four months after the Diocese of Scranton began looking into allegations against the rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, a spokesman for the diocese ...
WATCH: Minnesota Bishop Kept Admitted Child Abuser in Ministry
Depositions of Crookston Bishop Michael Hoeppner were released today, in which the bishop admits that he did not properly address an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor by a ...
Brooklyn’s Bishop to Lead Vatican Investigation of Buffalo Diocese
The Vatican has announced that Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, New York, will lead an apostolic visitation of the Diocese of Buffalo. The visitation, a canonical inspection and fact-finding mission, ...
Minnesota Bishop Hoeppner Under Investigation
Bishop Michael Hoeppner is the first sitting U.S. bishop to be investigated under new misconduct protocols introduced by Pope Francis earlier this year. Hoeppner, Bishop of Crookston, Minnesota, will be ...
Unhappy Anniversary: One Year After McCarrick, What’s Next for the Church?
Exactly one year after revelations about the sexual abuse of then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick were made public, the Church in the U.S. remains in a state of serious scandal, and Catholics ...
Bishop Bransfield, the USCCB, and the Holy Spirit
The U.S. bishops arrive in Baltimore next week for their second plenary meeting in the year of serious crisis that began last June. They will meet, again, under the specter ...
Wuerl Denies Prior Denials Denied Knowledge of McCarrick Seminarian Abuse
Just when you thought it could not get any crazier.... this from CNA: Cardinal Donald Wuerl told Washington, DC priests Saturday that he appropriately handled a 2004 allegation of misconduct against ...
Wuerl Knew of McCarrick Abuse Allegations in 2004
Recall that Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò called Wuerl a 'shameless liar' in his testimony back in August 2018 - now this from CNA: An allegation of misconduct against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick ...
Authorities Raid Archdiocese of US Bishops’ Conference President
Investigators have executed a search warrant on the chancery offices of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. A search warrant obtained by the district attorney’s office for Montgomery County was served Wednesday ...
