Publication: Catholic News Agency
Senator John Kennedy Asks Attorney General to Fight Anti-Catholic Vandalism
A United States senator has asked the nation’s attorney general to intensify efforts to fight the vandalism that has been carried out against Catholic places and statues throughout the country ...
Former Vatican Ambassador To Be Tried On Sexual Abuse Charges
A retired Vatican diplomat accused of sexual assault while in office is due to appear before the Paris criminal court in November. Archbishop Luigi Ventura resigned as nuncio to France ...
US Bishops Want to Count Illegal Aliens as Citizens
What's next? Demanding illegals should be able to vote? The U.S. bishops on Wednesday decried President Donald Trump’s recent memo seeking to exclude undocumented persons counted in the census from ...
New Lawsuit Claims McCarrick Ran ‘Sex Ring’ For Clerics At NJ Beach Home
McCarrick allegedly trafficked young boys from Christian Brothers High School to Beach House Sex Pad. A lawsuit filed Tuesday charges that former cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually abused a boy and ...
Former Mississippi Priest with HIV Indicted for Scammed Thousands of Dollars from Parishioners
A former Mississippi priest, accused of lying about having cancer, concealing an HIV diagnosis and advocating a fictitious orphanage in Mexico in an attempt to defraud parishioners, has been indicted on ...
Statue of Virgin Mary Beheaded at Tennessee Parish
A statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary was attacked this weekend at a parish in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the third reported incident against a statue of Mary occuring in the same ...
Archdiocese Drops Music, Prohibits Concerts, by David Haas
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis said Thursday it has received new allegations of misconduct on the part of composer David Haas, and that Haas will be prohibited from ...
WATCH: Catholic Priest Among Defenders of St Louis Statue From Violent Mob
Fr. Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, was among the defenders of a prominent statue of the city’s namesake as protesters called for its removal Saturday ...
‘I Cannot Remain Silent’: Madison’s Bishop Catholic Bishop Condemns Destruction of Statues
In stark contrast to other bishops, Bishop Hying speaks-out against the mob. As rioters across the United States target statues depicting historical figures, the Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday ...
Scranton Diocese Says ‘No Credible Evidence’ Against Msgr. Walter Rossi
The Diocese of Scranton released a statement Friday regarding Msgr. Walter Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The statement said that after an ...
Yet Another Pro-Homosexual Book Published by a “Catholic” Author
A book published by an employee of the Italian bishops’ conference, which claims to be inspired by Pope Francis' Amoris laetitia, suggests an approach to pastoral care that calls for ...
Archbishop Gregory LIED After Promising to ALWAYS Tell the Truth
Gregory told the White House in May that he couldn’t attend Trump’s visit to the JPII shrine. Then when it happened he was suddenly outraged – and he claimed he only ...
Vatican Officials Arrest London Property Broker for Extortion and Money Laundering
The Holy See press office announced Friday that Italian businessman Gianluigi Torzi has been arrested after he was interrogated as part of a Vatican financial investigation. Torzi played a crucial ...
German Bishop Quits Synodal Forum in Protest After It Endorses ‘Polyvalent Sexuality’
An auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne has announced he is no longer participating in the "Synodal Forum" on sexuality that is part of the "Synodal Path" underway in ...
Could Curial Politics Stop a Vatican Finance Trial?
As details continue to emerge about a raft of financial scandals at the Vatican Secretariat of State, some observers have been left wondering at the apparent lack of urgency or ...
Vatican Official was Director in London Property Broker’s Company
Talk about a conflict of interest. As the Vatican’s Secretariat of State finalized its purchase of a London luxury apartment building, a lay secretariat official who oversaw investments was appointed ...
The U.S. Church Is Going Broke
Well into the pandemic’s grip on American public life, parishes and dioceses are preparing a return to some new kind of normal. Masses are resuming, albeit for small numbers in ...
Vatican Says ‘Individual Measures’ Taken Against Staff Involved in Financial Scandal
The Holy See has announced that new "measures" have been taken against officials at the Vatican Secretariat of State as part of ongoing investigations into financial dealings at the curial ...
Bankrupt Dioceses Sue SBA for Loan Access
Two Catholic dioceses have filed suit against the Small Business Administration (SBA), claiming they were wrongfully denied access to emergency loans during the pandemic because of their bankruptcy status. The ...
German Bishops’ Chairman: Women Deacons Possible After ‘Synodal Way’
The new chairman of the German bishops’ conference has said that calling for the ordination of women could be a conclusion of the two-year “synodal way” being undertaken by the ...
Vindictive Bishop Malone Suspended Priest Who Leaked Tapes
The day before he left his office, Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo forbade his former priest secretary from celebrating sacraments, after the priest leaked audio recordings that showed Malone knew ...
