Columnist: Justin McLellan
Asked About Homosexual Blessings, Leo Says Other Issues Will Take Priority
Pope Leo XIV offered more insight into where he stands on LGBT issues, telling reporters on his flight back to Rome from Equatorial Guinea that he plans to emphasize "issues ...
Leo Claims Universal Health Care is a ‘Moral Imperative’
States have a moral obligation to develop universal health care systems, Pope Leo XIV said, stating that "health cannot be a luxury for the few." "On the contrary, it is ...
DELUSIONAL: Vatican’s Migration Czar Claims “Expanding Immigration Pathways” Is Solution To Illegal Immigration
The cardinal charged with overseeing the Vatican's study and response of the global migratory phenomena called for expanded legal pathways for migrants and called out a misrepresentative "negative narrative" about ...
As Pope Francis’ Pick For Peru, Bishop Prevost Reshaped An ‘Opus Dei Diocese’
How Robert Prevost helped transform a diocese from 'Opus Dei' to 'Liberation Theology'. With the surprise nomination of Augustinian Fr. Robert Prevost as bishop of Peru's fifth-largest city, Pope Francis ...
Vatican Synod Study Groups Cite Women’s Diaconate Among Priorities
Never mind that the question of women's ordination has already been definitely decided by the Church. Evil never relents. Never. A forthcoming Vatican document will address questions surrounding the possibility ...
Catholic Climate Justice Leaders Set Sites On COP30
The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) taking place in Belém, Brazil, "represents a historic call for the church to reaffirm its prophetic position" on climate justice, a leading ...
Woman Rebuts Peruvian Diocese’s Assertion That Bishop Robert Prevost Investigated Sex Abuse Claims
Peruvian woman repeated allegations July 31 that Pope Leo XIV, as a bishop in Peru, failed to investigate allegations of abuse she and two sisters reported to him against two ...
Francis Declares Final Synod Document Is Magisterial – Must Be Accepted
Doubling down on the centrality of synodality in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said that it is now up to local churches to accept and implement proposals from the final ...
Pope Preaching Universalism? Heaven is for ‘Everyone, Everyone, Everyone’
Heaven is not a secure vault protected from outsiders but a "hidden treasure" that is reached by cultivating virtues, Pope Francis said. Before praying the Angelus in St. Peter's Square ...
Buckle-Up: Pope Asks Laity to Prepare for Synod’s ‘Prophetic’ Stage
The most important outcome of the current Synod of Bishops on synodality is the synodal process itself and not the hot-button topics discussed, Pope Francis said. With the second synod ...
Priest Claims Church Must Rethink Its ‘Anachronistic’ Sexual Ethic
The Catholic Church's "established, dogmatic models of the theological approach to sexuality have become anachronistic," a moral theologian told a conference on sexuality and culture at the John Paul II ...
Pope Tells Priests: ‘Don’t Ask Too Much’ during Confession, Forgive Always
Catholics should not be afraid to bear their sins before God whose mercy is a model for the church's ministers, Pope Francis said. "Put this in your mind and heart: ...
Pope Francis Praises Open Borders Bishop Seitz
Pope Francis called the migration crisis between Mexico and the United States a “serious problem” and praised a U.S. bishop working along the border during an interview with Telemundo journalist ...