Publication: Catholic Herald
Clergy Who Ignore Church Teaching on Communion are Cruel
The decision to refuse to admit pro-abortion politicians to Holy Communion is not just based on a centuries-old discipline of the Church. It is also an act of pastoral mercy ...
New Questions Emerge Over Apostolic Visitation in Buffalo
Whistleblowers were discouraged from bringing counsel to their interview sessions As the US bishops begin their plenary meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, the Catholic bishops of New York are in Rome ...
Bishop Bransfield Disinvited From US Bishops’ Meeting
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has canceled their invitation for Bishop Michael Bransfield, former head of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, to attend their upcoming annual fall meeting due ...
Children Abused for Decades at ‘Sadistic’ Catholic School
A 'mafia-like' atmosphere allowed priests to cover up sexual abuse at St Benedict's School in Ealing, a report says A “sadistic and predatory” atmosphere allowed priests to “act like the ...
How Many Catholics Will Truly Stand Up to the New Paganism?
On Wednesday, in an acceptance speech for the Saint John Paul II New Evangelization Award, Robert George said that there is no longer any need to pretend about liberal neutrality ...
Amazon Synod: Where We Are After Week One
Priestly celibacy, the role of women, and Scalfari's latest claims: this has been an intense week at the Vatican The working sessions at the synod assembly broke for lunch on ...
Pope Accepts Resignation of NY Bishop Acused of Homosexual Abuse
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop John Jenik as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York and appointed two New York priests as auxiliaries of the ...
Viganò Corroboration #14: Homosexual Abuse in Vatican Seminary
Vatican City’s chief prosecutor has handed down criminal indictments against two priests in connection with sexual abuse allegedly committed at the Preseminario Pio X, a minor seminary located inside Vatican ...
Vos Estis: Why Crookston but not Buffalo?
US Church authorities seem hesitant to test the new Vatican law Interesting times got more interesting this week, when the Archdiocese of St Paul-Minneapolis confirmed to the Catholic News Agency that the ...
Cardinal Dolan Considering Options Over Scandal-Hit Buffalo Diocese
The Catholic Herald has learned that the Archdiocese of New York is closely monitoring the crisis in the Diocese of Buffalo, and that broad consultations are ongoing, with a view ...
How John Paul II’s Great Encyclical Is Being Erased From History
At the heart of the controversy over the dismantling of the John Paul II Institute in Rome is the effective sacking of two leading moral theologians, Mgr Livio Melina and ...
Will Rome Finally Intervene In The Troubled Diocese Of Buffalo?
The diocese is embroiled in allegations of cover-ups, morally ambiguous behaviour and serious dysfunction The protracted crisis in the US Diocese of Buffalo has piqued Rome’s interest, as many of ...
Diocese of Scranton Launches Investigation Into National Shrine Rector Rossi
The Diocese of Scranton has begun an investigation into allegations of misconduct on the part of the rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, ...
Bishop Brennan Named as Successor to Disgraced Bishop Bransfield
Pope Francis on Tuesday named Bishop Mark E. Brennan — auxiliary of Baltimore — to succeed the disgraced former bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, Michael Bransfield. Bishop Brennan is 72 years old ...
Warnings About Bishop Bransfield Went Unheeded as He Doled Out Cash to Catholic Leaders
Allegations of financial impropriety against former Wheeling-Charleston Bishop Michael Bransfield went unheeded for years, according to a new report. Letters from lay men and woman, and from Bransfield’s own chancery ...
Unhappy Anniversary: One Year After McCarrick, What’s Next for the Church?
Exactly one year after revelations about the sexual abuse of then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick were made public, the Church in the U.S. remains in a state of serious scandal, and Catholics ...
The Church’s Next Scandal Is Money
A new report gives a disturbing insight into the way that money circulates among Church leaders. How long can it continue? “The Devil always enters by way of the pocket.” ...
Cardinal DiNardo Accused of Mishandling Sexual Misconduct Case
The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference has been accused of mishandling an allegation of sexual coercion made against his former vicar general. A Texas woman says that Cardinal Daniel ...
CATHOLIC SHAME: The Unborn Would Actually Be SAFER If Catholics Were Removed From Public Office
The U.S. bishops' failure to act against pro-abortion politicians has created this mess. If Catholics were barred from public office, our politics might be greatly improved. Such a harsh assessment ...
Pope Francis Knew About Zanchetta
Among the biggest of the pieces that dropped in the major Papal interview with Noticieros Televisa’s long-time Vaticanologist, Valentina Alazraki and the document dump on which Crux and CBS jointly ...
Why Benedict’s Intervention Is So Important
After all the studies are done, after new protocols and safeguards are in place, Benedict’s answer will be the one which endures What is at the root of the crisis ...
