Publication: Catholic Herald
Francis Claims Priests Must Play Soccer, Not Preach Dogma
Pope Francis has attacked the “corruption” of restorationist movements within the Church and said the Second Vatican Council has not yet been fully implemented. In his latest surprise media interview, ...
‘Catholics for Choice’: The Ultimate Oxymoron
Whatever happened to discrimination? When I was growing up, which really wasn’t all that long ago, we were pretty good at it. People were either fat or thin, tall or ...
Faithful Catholics Follow Bishops Who Offer True and Courageous Leadership
My parish priest is also Vicar General for Brentwood Diocese. He has recently returned from one of his bi-annual meetings of vicars general, which took place in Salford. He remarked ...
Athanasius Schneider: Pope Francis’s Synodal Reform is Undermining the Church
Bishop Athanasius Schneider is appealing to Pope Francis to rescind new norms that grant equal voting rights to bishops and laity at the October 2023 Ordinary General Assembly of the ...
Progressive Ideology Has Replaced Christianity In Many Of Our Catholic Schools
Whilst completing an ESTA form for my upcoming trip to the United States I was asked whether I plan to commit any acts of genocide or terrorism while there: yes ...
Holiness is the Antidote to Evil in the Church
There may be few greater hindrances to believing in God and loving His Church than the offence caused by clerical sexual abuse. The latest scandals, and the arguably equally offensive ...
Bishop Reported to Police for Abuse as Vatican Probes Lockdown Sex Parties
Bishop Robert Byrne has been reported to the police following an allegation of abuse made against him by a Catholic priest, the Catholic Herald can reveal. The Oratorian stepped down ...
Keeping Quiet: The Downside to “Voluntary Laicization”
Pope Francis quietly laicized a priest accused of grave immorality and serious canonical crimes in 2017, rather than have him stay in the priesthood long enough to face trial. The ...
The Vatican’s New Synod Document Radically Overturns Christian Teaching
“The ‘Working Document for the Continental Stage’ of the Synodal Way must be exposed as the Trojan horse of heresy that is.” “All I need is a sheet of paper ...
Cardinal Müller Challenges Pope Francis: No Authority To Change Teaching Of Church
In an interview with Infovaticana, German prelate, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has warned that Pope Francis has no ...
Pope Discusses Climate Change with Pelosi as Abortion Storm Rages in California
Pope Francis has met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat politician often at the centre of controversy over her support for abortion. The Vatican had released no information about ...
How McCarricks Happen
The brute fact is that that they don’t just happen out of nowhere. Rather, McCarricks are the malign by-products of a system ostensibly designed to create something else entirely: bishops ...
Former Cheyenne Bishop Skates on Abuse Charges
The Vatican has exonerated Bishop Joseph H. Hart, emeritus of Cheyenne, Wyoming, on seven counts of child sexual abuse. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which handled the ...
Former Texas Priest Pleads Guilty to Charges of Sexual Abuse
A former priest of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston has pleaded guilty to charges of sexual abuse he committed 20 years ago in Montgomery County, Texas. Manuel La Rosa-Lopez was sentenced ...
Detroit Priest Says Removal Part of “Cover-Up”
Father Michael Suhy of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in Plymouth, Michigan was told that he is being removed from the parish he led, according to Detroit Free Press ...
Accusations of Grave Mishandling of Abuse Case Across Church Jurisdictions
A priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Fr Kevin McGoldrick, is quietly seeking voluntary laicization after that archdiocese investigated a claim he sexually assaulted a young woman who had been ...
Why is the Vatican Keeping Bishop Scharfenberger in the Dark?
Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany, New York, is in a tough spot. Appointed apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Buffalo after the resignation of Bishop Richard Malone, Bishop Scharfenberger is the public face ...
Archbishop Paglia Says Priests Can Be Present At Assisted Suicide
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said Tuesday that he would be willing to hold the hand of someone dying from assisted suicide, and that he ...
Cardinal Becciu Again Denies Involvement in IDI Hospital Purchase
In a letter to a veteran Italian journalist, Cardinal Angelo Becciu wrote on Monday that he was not involved in the purchase of a bankrupt Italian hospital, and that reports ...
Could Financial Scandal Isolate the Holy See?
The Holy See is caught in a financial scandal that has seen it suspended from the information-sharing network of the world’s premier financial intelligence club. Some of the players in ...
Can The Pope Do No Wrong?
In recent months, controversies in the Catholic Church have reached a new pitch. On one side are critics of the Pope, often accused of being crypto-schismatics or sedevacantists. On the ...
