Columnist: Jonathan Liedl
Cardinal Cupich’s Ever-Expanding ‘Coaching Tree’
The cardinal-archbishop of Chicago has profoundly reshaped the American hierarchy over the past 10 years and is poised to exert a lasting influence. At an upcoming Mass in Manhattan, Bishop ...
Archbishop Weisenburger Fires Two World-Renowned Professors From Sacred Heart Seminary
NOTE: Since the time of the publication of this article, Ed Peters has also announced that Archbishop Weisenburger has also terminated his employment at Sacred Heart Seminary. Two prominent theologians ...
Charlotte Bishop Delays TLM Restrictions After Major Backlash
The bishop of Charlotte has delayed his plan to restrict the traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in his diocese, pushing the date back by nearly three months after a week and ...
How ‘Special Interest Advocacy’ Works at the Synod Circus
In the next day or two, don’t be surprised to see a fresh round of news stories about support for ordaining women at the Synod on Synodality. It’s a reasonable ...
Apostasy on Full Display at the Synod in Rome
A study group established by Pope Francis to develop a synodal way of discerning Catholic Church teaching on so-called controversial issues, including sexual morality and life issues, has proposed what ...
African Archbishops: ‘They Are Sending Us Missionaries of Evil’
Church leaders tell the Register that rogue NGOs and recruitment into sex parties are among the ways Western entities are imposing LGBTQ ‘proselytization’ in Africa. The West used to send ...
Cupich Claims Synod’s Egalitarian ‘Conversations in the Spirit’ Can ‘Revolutionize’ the Church
A leading U.S. cleric is proposing the “conversation in the Spirit” methodology employed at last October’s Synod on Synodality assembly as a model for reforming the Church, placing particular emphasis ...
Pope Francis Expresses ‘Concerns’ about German Synodal Way
Pope Francis has expressed deep reservations about the direction of the Catholic Church in Germany, warning that concrete steps currently being taken “threaten” to undermine unity with the universal Church ...
The Synod Long Game? Changing Structure to Change Doctrine
Will the Synod on Synodality result in changes to established Church teaching? The question has dogged the global consultative process, which is wrapping up the first of two Vatican assemblies ...
Synod Bishop Wants to Set Aside Apostolic Tradition
A German bishop participating in the Synod on Synodality challenged the idea that the Catholic community in his country is at odds with the universal Church — and reasserted that ...
Cupich Still Planning to Sell Historic Church to Promoter of Immoral Events
Ever since their parish was suppressed in 2016, former parishioners and others connected to St. Adalbert Church in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood have tried to keep the church building in the ...
Synod Organizers Are Making Their Crisis of Credibility Worse
As it transitions into its continental phase, the multi-year Synod on Synodality process faces an ironic crisis of credibility: How can it be considered an accurate portrayal of Catholics’ experience ...
Pontifical Academy for Life Pushes for Departure From Doctrine on Contraceptive Sex
Fifty-five years ago, Pope St. Paul VI promulgated Humanae Vitae, a papal encyclical that unequivocally clarified the Church’s perennial opposition to artificially contracepted sex. Although this teaching faced resistance from ...
Chicago Faithful Flummoxed by Inconsistent Liturgy Policy
Perhaps no U.S. diocese has implemented Traditiones Custodes, Pope Francis’s motu proprio restricting what is commonly known as the traditional Latin Mass, as forcefully as the Archdiocese of Chicago. In ...
International Coalition of Bishops Offers ‘Fraternal Letter of Concern’ to German Episcopacy over ‘Synodal Path’
Over 70 bishops from 4 different continents warn that heterodox German reform efforts risk fracturing Church unity, adversely impacting the Church globally. Seventy-four Catholic bishops from four different continents have ...
McCarrick Report’s Silence on Key Issues Raises More Questions Than It Answers
In many ways, the Vatican’s recently released report on the ascent of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick through the ranks of Church leadership is an unprecedented exposition of the inner workings ...