Columnist: John Lavenburg
After Meeting with Bishop, Organizers Hope LGBTQ Mass in Pittsburgh May Happen
About a month after Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh cancelled a Mass in solidarity with LGBTQ Catholics, the organization that planned the Mass says they have met with Zubik and ...
LAUGHABLE: Catholic Immigrant Advocates Deny Claims of Facilitating Illegal Crossings
Immigrant advocacy organizations in Texas say they have not yet been contacted by state Attorney General Ken Paxton after he pledged to launch an investigation this week, at the request ...
Santa Rosa Will Become 27th U.S. Diocese to Declare Bankruptcy
Soon into the new year, the Diocese of Santa Rosa, California, will join a growing list of U.S. Catholic dioceses to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it faces a ...
Buffalo Diocese Agrees to Secular Oversight of Abuse Allegations
Bishops Richard Malone and Edward Grosz banned from holding any fiduciary role with a charity for life. The Diocese of Buffalo has agreed to enact more secular oversight of its ...
Steubenville Bishop Seeks Merger with Diocese of Columbus
An omen of decline for the Catholic Church in America When Bishop Jeffrey Monforton arrived to the Diocese of Steubenville in 2012 some people asked him if he would suppress ...
McCarrick Case Drags Over A Year After His Arraignment
Just more than a year after ex-cardinal and ex-priest Theodore McCarrick was arraigned in a Massachusetts criminal court on assault and battery charges, proceedings continue on without an imminent conclusion ...
Bishop Banned From Public Ministry In Diocese He Formerly Led
The former bishop of the Diocese of Crookston, Minnesota, Bishop Michael Hoeppner, will not return to do any ministry in the diocese and will have his retirement compensation cut, the ...
Never Mind Sacrilege and Scandal – Its All About ‘Tone’
As the nation’s bishops convene this week for their first in-person general assembly in two years, the in-person conversations on a controversial document on the Eucharist have taken a different ...
