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Motion to Dismiss Delays Trial of English Bishop Accused of Raping a Minor
Lawyers for an English bishop accused of raping a minor have asked the court to dismiss the case. Bishop David Oakley of Northampton appeared in court at the Old Bailey ...
Is The USCCB Trying To Influence Mid-Term Elections With It’s Newly Issued “Homily Guidelines?”
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has just published “Preaching on Faithful Citizenship 2026-Year A,” a set of homily suggestions for Sundays between September 13 and November 1, ...
USCCB Files Amicus Brief Opposing Mandatory Detention Of Illegal Aliens
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that prolonged, unreviewable immigration detention is unlawful and contrary to Catholic Social Teaching. The ...
Cardinal Müller: “Bishops are Shepherds of Souls” not Guardians of Democracy
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has questioned the interventions of some German bishops regarding the vote for Alternative for Germany ...
German Bishops TERRIFIED By Potential Loss Of Tax Revenues
Ulrich Siegmund is thirty-five years old, has a young daughter, a professional smile, and achieved the best electoral result in the history of Alternative for Germany: 44% in Saxony-Anhalt , leaving him ...
Francisco-Bergoglio and the Synodal Manipulation of Saint Francis of Assisi
Recently reading the beautiful biography of Saint Francis of Assisi written by G. K. Chesterton, I was thinking about how we have been able to endure the disastrous pontificate of ...
Insurer for Diocese of Winona-Rochester to Pay $30 Million to Clergy Sexual Abuse Victims
Victims of sexual abuse at the hands of southeast Minnesota Catholic clergy and staff will receive $30 million under a recent settlement. Jeff Anderson & Associates, a law firm representing ...
Synodalism Is Modernism: From Being Condemned To Being Enthroned By Rome
Pope Pius X's Oath Against Modernism was required to be taken by clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and seminary professors of philosophy and theology from 1910 until it was ...
Buddhist Mantras From Pulpit of a Catholic Church in Italy During a Funeral
Two Buddhist monks chanted a mantra from the ambo of a Catholic church during the funeral of a Buddhist woman held on August 20 in Como, northern Italy. The parish ...
The Ruse To Close Abuse Cases
There exists in the Church a way of ending procedures for abuse of minors that does not involve a sentence, does not establish facts, does not hear the victim and ...
German Bishops Spread Thesis That Christ Drank And Lost Control
The Catholic Church in Germany maintains, with funds from the church tax, a news agency, an official portal and an archdiocesan radio station. Between September 2 and 3, all three ...
Pope Leo Summons Bishops To Rome To Enshrine Heretical Amoris Laetitia
Pope Leo XIV has called upon the presidents of the world’s Episcopal Conference to meet in Rome in October in order “to examine and discuss the teachings of Amoris Laetitia ...
Cardinal Writes Foreword To Book On Trans Identities: Calls For “Crossing New Thresholds”
Cardinal Domenico Battaglia, Archbishop of Naples, has written the foreword to Persone transgender. Scienze, teologie, pastorali, a book that brings transgender identities into the realm of theology and the Church’s ...
Chinese Underground Church Consecrated 10 Bishops Without Papal Mandate
After the 2018 Sino-Vatican agreement “terrible things happen to Catholics” in the Fujian province, an anonymous Chinese bishop who is unaffiliated with the Chinese state church ‘Patriotic Association’, told Anthony ...
Laicized Wisconsin Priest Arrested Over NEW Grooming Charges, Bail Jumping
A former Wisconsin priest has been charged with bail jumping and new sexual offenses against minors, the Diocese of Madison has confirmed. Andrew Showers was arrested Aug. 20 for attempted ...
A Jewish Biblical Scholar Will Now Preside Over the Catholic Biblical Association
The Catholic Biblical Association of America (CBA) has elected for the first time in its 90-year history a Jewish president. Biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine, a specialist in the New Testament ...
Vilnius Archbishop Says Lithuania Not Ready For Investigation Into Sexual Abuse
Vilnius Archbishop Gintaras Grušas said Wednesday that the time was not yet right for an independent, large-scale investigation into the extent of sexual abuse in Lithuania’s Catholic Church over recent ...
Spanish Nuns Pretend To Concelebrate Mass
A video obtained by InfoVaticana shows how, at the Trinitarian monastery of Suesa (Cantabria), the community of nuns surrounds the altar with outstretched hands during the Eucharistic Prayer while the ...
Australian Jury Convicts Bishop Of Sexually Abusing 2 Men
An Australian jury on Thursday convicted a former Catholic bishop renowned for hosting alcohol-fueled house parties of sexually abusing two young Indigenous men. The District Court of Western Australia jury ...
BRAVO! Bishop of Oslo Sets Limits on Synodality: “It is Not Up to Us to Decide on Matters of Faith and Morals”
The Bishop of Oslo, Fredrik Hansen, has announced the convocation of the first diocesan synod of the Catholic Church in Oslo and has made clear from the outset which matters ...
Bishop Lewandowski To Celebrate Masses For ‘LGBTQ+ Individuals, Families, and Friends’
The Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, announced two upcoming parish events for “LGBTQ+ individuals, families, and friends.” Each event includes Mass celebrated by Bishop Bruce Lewandowski, a “dedicated time for ...
