Publication: Catholic News Agency
Retired Archbishop Lenga Disciplined After Calling Pope Francis a ‘Heretic’
A retired archbishop who accused Pope Francis of heresy has been ordered to cease celebrating Mass in public. Archbishop Jan Paweł Lenga, the 69-year-old former Archbishop of Karaganda in Kazakhstan, ...
Majority of Catholics No Longer Believe Abortion Is “Intrinsically Evil”
While the Catholic Church teaches that procuring an abortion is always immoral, a majority of U.S. Catholics do not believe abortion is intrinsically evil and say it should be legal ...
Gonzaga University to Host LGBT Law Clinic
This is the same Jesuit school that blocked Ben Shapiro from speaking and allowed priests accused of sexual abuse to reside on campus. Gonzaga University’s plan to become the first ...
Diocese of Harrisburg Files for Bankruptcy Amid New Sex Abuse Lawsuits
Harrisburg become the 21st U.S. Diocese to declare bankruptcy. The Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania announced Wednesday that it is filing for bankruptcy. A landslide of clergy abuse lawsuits have ...
McCarrick’s Former Secretary: He Was ‘A Devourer Of Souls’
A priest who was the personal secretary of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick said he is sickened by manipulative fundraising tactics employed while McCarrick was Archbishop of Washington. The priest called ...
Cardinal Zen Tells Congressmen: China Wants Vatican ‘Surrender’
Cardinal Joseph Zen, the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, has said that the situation of the Church in China is dire. The cardinal also predicted the end of the underground Church. “The situation ...
Bishop Paprocki Issues Common Sense Guidelines on Gender Ideology, But Where Are His Brother Bishops?
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield in Illinois issued a pastoral guide last month regarding diocesan policies on gender identity, expounding on existing policy that schools and other diocesan institutions will ...
Vatican Orders Additional Investigation Into Bishop Hoeppner
The Diocese of Crookston announced Tuesday that the Vatican has ordered additional investigation into the conduct of Bishop Michael Hoeppner, the first U.S. bishop to be investigated through a process ...
Legionaries of Christ: Sexual Abuse Perpetrated at Minor Seminary
The Legionaries of Christ acknowledged that sexual abuse took place at the religious order’s El Ajusco minor seminary in Mexico City between 1985 and 1992. The group issued two separate ...
Bishop DiMarzio Second U.S. Bishop to be Investigated Under Pope’s New Guidelines
Cardinal Timothy Dolan is conducting an investigation into Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, following an allegation of sexual abuse. The investigation is being conducted under the provisions of Vos estis lux ...
Vatican Appointment of Pro-Chinese Government Bishop Delayed
The Holy See has delayed announcing its pick for the next bishop of Hong Kong, CNA has learned, amid concerns that local clergy and lay Catholics will see Rev. Peter ...
USCCB Narrowly Approves Spending MORE of Your Money in 2021
The bishops of the United States have narrowly approved an increase on the amount dioceses must contribute to the national bishops’ conference. The measure initially failed to pass when put to ...
FBI Interviewed Papal Foundation Staff about McCarrick
Law enforcement officials have conducted interviews with several senior figures at the Papal Foundation, a U.S. based charity which supports the charitable works of the Holy Father. Officers from the ...
Where’s Uncle Teddy?
The disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick has moved from the Kansas friary where he had been living since 2018. A spokesman for the Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Conrad told ...
Vatican’s-China Deal Enables State Persecution of Faithful Catholics
China will enforce new restrictions on religious groups, organizations, meetings, and other related events starting on Feb 1. The country’s state-controlled media announced the new policy on Dec. 30, after ...
Lawsuit Charges Former Buffalo Bishop Trautman With Abuse Cover-Up
Buffalo, N.Y., Jan 3, 2020 / 06:01 pm (CNA).- A lawsuit against the Diocese of Buffalo and retired Bishop Donald Trautman claim they covered up a New York priest’s sex ...
Diocese of Providence Challenges RI Statute of Limitations Expansion
The Diocese of Providence has challenged a new Rhode Island law that greatly expands the time window for filing childhood sexual abuse lawsuits. In July, a bill was signed into ...
WATCH: Cardinal Müller Says Church Crisis Comes from Abandoning God, Adapting to Culture
The crisis facing the Catholic Church today has arisen from an attempt – even by some within the Church - to align with the culture and abandon the teachings of ...
Vatican’s Investment Funds Were Vehicles for Italian Bank Fraud
Two investment funds used by Vatican dicasteries were also used by a major Italian bank to conceal illegal investments for which the bank was eventually closed. On Friday, Maltese media ...
The Vatican and IDI Financial Scandal: A CNA Explainer
For more than a year, CNA has been following a Vatican financial scandal involving a bankrupt Italian hospital, a potentially illicit loan from the Vatican’s central bank, and a controversial ...
Vicar General of Peoria Diocese: Sheen Beatification Delay an Act of ‘Sabotage’
After the Diocese of Rochester last week confirmed it had requested that the beatification of Venerable Fulton Sheen be delayed, a longtime Peoria diocese official is accusing the Rochester diocese ...
