Columnist: Michael Haynes
SSPX And The State Of Necessity: Clarity At Last?
One of the key factors in the entire debate surrounding the episcopal consecrations performed by the Society of Saint Pius X is the state of necessity which the Society invokes ...
Cologne Cardinal: Defining Synodality A ‘Major Challenge’ For Church
Defining synodality is a “major challenge” for the Church, Cologne’s Cardinal Rainer Woelki has said, while also urging parity between the Novus Ordo and the traditional Mass. Cardinal Woelki has ...
Cardinal Roche Says Pope Leo IS NOT Changing Latin Mass Restrictions
Cardinal Arthur Roche has stated that Pope Leo has no intention of changing Pope Francis’ restrictions on the traditional liturgy. In a newly published interview with The Tablet, Cdl. Roche ...
Woman Gives Joint Homily With German Bishop Despite Vatican Ban
In an apparent direct violation of the Holy See’s prohibition, a lay-woman gave a joint sermon during Mass in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising this week. Marking the feast ...
Bishop Eleganti: The Synod is Clearly Trying to Change Church Morals and Identity
Bishop Marian Eleganti has issued a fresh critique of the Synod on Synodality promoted by the Synod Secretariat, accusing it as being aimed at changing Catholic teaching on marriage, homosexuality, ...
The Vatican’s Pro-Life Body Has Lost Its Way
The Catholic Church’s prohibition on the use of contraception is clear and unchanging, yet the tragic demise of the Vatican academy tasked with examining such matters is so great that ...
New Report Suggests the Synod Still Cannot Speak Clearly on Homosexuality
Platforming active dissent from Church teaching on homosexuality while also giving a hat-tip to that same teaching, the latest advisory document from the synod is a textbook case in the ...
Vatican’s China Deal AIDED Persecution Of Christians
The watchdog agency Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that the controversial 2018 deal between China and the Vatican has “helped the Chinese government to pressure underground Catholic communities to ...
Bishop Schneider Urges Pope Leo to Approve SSPX Consecrations
he Holy See’s former Apostolic Visitor to the Society of Saint Pius X has urged Pope Leo to grant his approval to the planned episcopal consecrations, arguing that failure to ...
Cardinal Radcliffe: I Support “Moving Ahead Quickly” on Female Deacons
Cardinal Radcliffe, who served as spiritual advisor to the Synod on Synodality, has given his support to “moving ahead quickly” with ordaining women to the diaconate. Interviewed by The Telegraph, ...
Additional Tucho ‘Erotic’ Books Unearthed, After Being Hidden By Vatican
Fresh controversy has broken around Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández after more “erotic” texts from his past have surfaced, some of which were hidden from the official CV provided by the ...
Cardinal Fernández’s Vatican Post has Caused Unnecessary Scandal and Disunity
The theological eruption caused by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández in early November was entirely predictable and serves to highlight the current sorry state of the office he leads. It has ...
Madrid’s Cardinal Welcomes Dissident LGBT Group
The Global Network of Rainbow Catholics (GNRC) is holding its annual meeting in Madrid, after having received a welcome from the Archdiocese of Madrid last month. One of the organizing ...
Drag Show Advertised by Italian Parish after Bishop’s Mass
A scandal-plagued diocese in Italy is involved in hosting a drag show directly after Mass as part of celebrations for St. Aloysius Gonzaga. On August 31 a drag show performance ...
Cardinal Burke: Fatima Message Warns Of ‘Practical Apostasy Of Our Time’
The message of Fatima relates to the “practical apostasy of our time,” Cardinal Raymond Burke said this weekend. Offering Mass on Sunday to mark the 108th anniversary of the third ...
Leo Appoints Spanish Bishop Who Supports Homosexual ‘Blessings’
The new bishop of Málaga, recently appointed by Pope Leo XIV, is a supporter of blessing same-sex “couples,” thus being one of the many prelates who warmly welcomed such blessings ...
Vatican Pushes ‘New Way of Being Church’ in 3-year Synod Rollout Plan
The Vatican’s synod office has issued guidelines for how to implement the three-year implementation phase of the multi-year Synod on Synodality, emphasizing that it is a manner of “growing in ...
Pope Leo Appoints Cardinal Roche, Same-Sex ‘Blessing’ Supporters to Dicastery for Consecrated Life
The new members include 5 cardinals – including Cardinal Arthur Roche – 5 bishops, 4 priests, 4 religious women, and one lay woman. Pope Leo XIV today appointed members to ...
USCCB Spent Nearly $250 Million On Child Sex Abuse Claims Since 2014
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops reported in its latest annual figures that nearly $250 million was spent in relation to settling sexual abuse cases involving children and young people ...
Fr. James Martin Urges Catholics to Celebrate LGBT ‘Pride Month’
As in previous years, Father James Martin has urged Catholics to celebrate “Pride month,” saying that “for the LGBTQ community” it is “a recognition of the human dignity of a ...
Human Rights Watch Urges Pope Leo To Address Secretive China Deal
Advocacy group Human Rights Watch has called on Pope Leo XIV to conduct an urgent review into the Vatican’s secretive deal with Communist China. In a public statement issued following ...
