Columnist: Stephen Wynne
Bishop Strickland Stands Alone
UPDATE: Bishop Strickland issues statement regarding his decision not to sign the Texas Bishops' Statement on Scarce Healthcare Resources." A Texas prelate is breaking with fellow Lone Star State bishops, ...
Top Vatican Official Sloughs-Off Pachamama Idolatry
Concerns over Pachamama are overblown, according to a leading Vatican official. "I don't know the Amazonian culture well enough to say what the scope of these symbols is, but they ...
Venezuelan Bishops Rally Behind Alleged Predator Archbishop Edgar Parra
The Venezuelan hierarchy is circling the wagons around the country's highest-ranking prelate, Abp. Edgar Peña Parra, who was accused last month of sexually abusing seminarians. In a June 10 interview with The Washington Post, Abp. Carlo ...
Priest Excommunicated and Parish Closed After Homily Critical of Consciliar Popes
A priest of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter has been excommunicated, and his parish permanently closed, months after he criticized certain actions of various popes both during ...
Chile’s Top Cardinal Sued for Cathedral Rape Cover-Up
Chile's top Catholic prelate is being sued for covering up homosexual rape inside his cathedral. Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati of Santiago, former head of the Chilean bishops' conference, has been slapped with a ...
Boston Seminary Rector Forced Out Amid Homosexual Abuse Probe
The rector of a troubled Massachusetts seminary has been forced out of the archdiocese of Boston. Monsignor James P. Moroney, former head of scandal-ridden St. John's Seminary in Brighton in the archdiocese ...
Tanzanian Cardinal: Better to Starve than to Embrace Homosexuality
An African prelate is warning his people that it's better to starve than to embrace homosexuality. In an appeal to Tanzanian lawmakers last month, Cdl. Polycarp Pengo of Dar es ...
Viganò Corroboration #11: Cardinal Ouellet’s Letter Confirms Sanctions Were Imposed on McCarrick
The Vatican's prefect for the Congregation for Bishops has confirmed that, in response to Theodore McCarrick's serial sexual predation of young men and boys, Pope Benedict XVI imposed punitive measures ...