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When Synodality Meets A Closed Door
One dispute can be dismissed as a misunderstanding. Two can be blamed upon personality. By the time Catholics from several unrelated parishes are signing petitions, marching by torchlight, questioning the ...
Spanish Conference Convenes Priests To Address Their Ministry In “A More Synodal Church”
The Spanish Episcopal Conference will bring the application of synodality to the concrete exercise of priestly ministry in a national gathering convened for next November 30 in Madrid. Under the ...
Leo Promotes Immigration Czar To Bishop of Joliet
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Brendan J. Cahill of Victoria, Texas, as the new bishop of Joliet, Illinois. The appointment was publicized in Washington Sept. 17 by Archbishop Gabriele ...
Fr. James Martin Wants J.D. Vance To Emulate Andy Burnham
Fr. James Martin wants US Vice President JD Vance to study Andy Burnham, who famously declared that ‘I’m a gay-rights, feminist, football-loving Catholic kind of guy.’ Father James Martin took ...
Bishop Strickland Calls-Out Leo-Vatican Document On Interreligious Dialogue
Bishop Joseph Strickland, the former bishop of Tyler, Texas, who was removed by Pope Francis after refusing to curtail the Traditional Latin Mass, warned that a new Pope Leo XIV ...
WE Are STILL Waiting To Hear A Full Confession From The Hierarchy
Bankruptcy courts and mediated agreements are venues of cold calculation designed to bring a measure of justice in the form of financial settlements, a term seductively suggestive of conclusion. When ...
Pope Leo Appoints McCarrick-Linked Cleric As Bishop Of Metuchen
Pope Leo has appointed a new bishop for the Diocese of Metuchen. The new ordinary for the New Jersey diocese is Bishop Michael A. Saporito, currently an auxiliary bishop for ...
Toronto Restricts TLM That The Archdiocese ITSELF Promoted To Prevent Faithful From Attending The SSPX
The Archdiocese of Toronto, in Canada, will begin applying new restrictions to the Traditional Mass next Sunday, September 20, in the communities served by the Oratory of St. Philip Neri ...
Synod Reports Call For ‘Gender Equality’ In Church Governance
The Synod issued two new reports this week that include promoting “gender equality” across all positions within the Catholic Church. On September 8, the General Secretariat of the Synod published ...
Archdiocese of Chicago Settles 9 Sex Abuse Claims, Paying $5.4M
The Archdiocese of Chicago recently settled out of court with nine people who accused eight Chicago-area priests of sexually abusing them decades ago. The settlements, totaling $5.4 million, were all ...
Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Removed From Ministry
The Diocese of Fall River (Massachusetts) announced on September 11 that it has restricted Monsignor Roger Landry, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States, from the ...
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 ...
