Publication: National Catholic Reporter
French Bishop Claims Riots Caused By Anxiety Over ‘Climate Change:’ Calls For ‘Dialogue’ With Rioters
Just days after Pope Leo XIV's Sept. 25-28 apostolic visit to France, scenes of unrest have replaced the atmosphere of unity and peace that marked the papal trip. Riots that ...
European Synodality Leaders Scheme To Change The Church
When Catholic leaders from across Europe met in mid-September to discuss "Shaping Synodality in Europe," a consensus quickly emerged that the church's new guiding principle was here to stay. But ...
LGBTQ Catholic Pilgrims Connect To History Of HIV/AIDS
For three days, a group of LGBTQ Catholics, clergy, religious, family members and others walked through New York City as pilgrims, tracing a history marked by suffering, ministry, exclusion and ...
WE Are STILL Waiting To Hear A Full Confession From The Hierarchy
Bankruptcy courts and mediated agreements are venues of cold calculation designed to bring a measure of justice in the form of financial settlements, a term seductively suggestive of conclusion. When ...
Database Of Accused Clergy Unveiled As Chicago Archdiocese Abuse Payouts Exceed $400M
A St. Paul, Minnesota-based firm announced a new abuse settlement with the Chicago Archdiocese, which has already paid out more than $400 million to abuse survivors. The firm has also ...
German Archbishop Says US-Mexico Border Reminds Him Of Berlin Wall
Touring the U.S.-Mexico border between Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, Archbishop Stefan Hesse of Hamburg said the towering fortifications and razor wire dividing the two border communities evoked ...
San Francisco Parishes Hit With Massive Bills for Sex Abuse Settlement
When the Archdiocese of San Francisco announced in late June that it would pay $395 million to hundreds of people who were sexually abused as children by Bay Area priests, archdiocesan ...
Stonewall Pride Mass Draws Misguided Sheep for False Message of Faith, Inclusion, Hope
Surrounded by rainbow flags and packed shoulder to shoulder with more than 150 worshippers, Christopher Park in New York's Greenwich Village became an open-air sanctuary at the start of New ...
One Year In, Pope Leo Forges Ahead With Francis’ Ecological Obsession
Since Pope Leo XIV assumed the papacy, one of the most closely watched questions has been how he would continue Pope Francis' legacy on climate change. Dubbed by some as the ...
Catholic Charities of NYC Mobilizes New Effort To Aid Illegal Immigrants
While the Archdiocese of New York claims to be on the verge of bankruptcy, they somehow can find money to fund programs for illegal aliens. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese ...
USCCB Partners With Radical Bishop To Roll-Out New Ecological Program Across U.S. Dioceses
On a recent sweltering Saturday typical of April in Arizona, around 100 people from across the state gathered at the pastoral center of the Phoenix Diocese for a day of ...
Asked About Homosexual Blessings, Leo Says Other Issues Will Take Priority
Pope Leo XIV offered more insight into where he stands on LGBT issues, telling reporters on his flight back to Rome from Equatorial Guinea that he plans to emphasize "issues ...
17 Bishops Have Attended Secret “LGBTQ+ Dialogues” Organized By Heretical New Ways Ministry
Since 2023, New Ways Ministry has hosted three such gatherings at Georgetown University, St. Louis University, and the Siena Retreat Center in Racine, Wisconsin, with seventeen bishops attended these programs, ...
Leo Names ‘Open Borders’ Catholics to Vatican’s Social Justice Office
Pope Leo XIV has named a trio of Catholic academics and the head of a church-based center for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border to be among the new members of ...
Obsessed Bishop Seitz Leads Yet ANOTHER March To Protest Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Efforts
A little more than a week after signing a pastoral letter against mass detention and deportations, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, joined members of Hope Border Institute and local and ...
Bishops of Global South Want To Ban Fossil Fuels
Catholic bishops from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, along with others from Europe and Oceania, issued a manifesto this week urging world governments to abandon the use of ...
Leo Claims Universal Health Care is a ‘Moral Imperative’
States have a moral obligation to develop universal health care systems, Pope Leo XIV said, stating that "health cannot be a luxury for the few." "On the contrary, it is ...
Phoenix Bishop Hosts Conference Calling For Catholic Response To Deportation of Illegal Aliens
The so-called 'Witness to Hope' conference is sponsored by a large network of 'open borders' Catholic NGOs. As the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown, advocates from across the nation ...
Cardinal McElroy Claims Iran War Not Morally Legitimate
The United States' war with Iran is "not morally legitimate" because it fails several tenets of Catholic just war principles, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington said in a March 9 interview with ...
Archbishop Wester Implies Trump Is Another Hitler: Warns of ‘Bonhoeffer Moment’
Two prominent U.S. Catholics agree that immigration remains a daunting challenge — but each has starkly different viewpoints about what their faith demands of them during this moment. First there's ...
Another Day, Another Attack By U.S. Bishops
No other U.S. president has been the target of more attacks by Catholic bishops than President Donald Trump. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a stark critique of the ...
