Publication: Religion News Service
In Direct Appeal To Trump, USCCB President Urges End Of Haitian Deportations
Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference president, sent a letter on Tuesday (Sept. 8), urging President Donald Trump to cease the deportation of “large numbers” ...
BRAVO! Catholic Legal Aid NGO For Illegal Aliens Nears Collapse After Stop In Federal Funding
For 40 years, a ministry of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso has provided legal assistance to hundreds of thousands of immigrants. Now, the ministry, Estrella del Paso, says the ...
Leo Claims Iran Conflict Is NOT A Just War
Pope Leo XIV said the war in Iran does not qualify as a “just war” according to Catholic teaching, while answering questions by journalists aboard the papal plane for his ...
Catholic Ritual Blended with Neapolitan Folklore in Pilgrimage for Queers
The pews of the Church of the Annunziata in Mercogliano, a town just outside of Naples, were filled with guests wearing lacquered nails, towering wigs and heavy eyelashes. The group ...
U.S. Bishops Push Forward On Synodality
In his first speech from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV took the opportunity to endorse synodality, signaling that this cornerstone theological idea of ...
Vatican Enlists Pro-Abortion, Pro-LGBT Schwarzenegger To Bring Muscle to Catholic Church’s Climate Push
To mark the the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’” (Blessed Be), the Vatican has invited more than 1,000 religious leaders, activists and scientists to ...
Out-Of-Touch Bishops Press Ahead on Defending Illegal Aliens
On Sunday (Jan. 26), a collection of U.S. Catholic bishops’ staffers met at a Capitol Hill hotel with Catholic advocates and educators at the USCCB’s Catholic Social Ministry Gathering. In ...
Report Confirms More Than $5 Billion Spent On U.S. Sex Abuse Allegations
Over two decades, Catholic dioceses, eparchies and men’s religious communities spent more than $5 billion on allegations of sexual abuse of minors, according to a new report released Wednesday (Jan ...
Cardinal Tobin Hosts Interfaith Event Opposing Trump’s Deportation Plan
Back in November, just a week after Donald Trump was elected to a second term as U.S. president, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, chair of the U.S. Catholic ...
Does Vatican-Approved Document Allow Italian Homosexual Men to Become Priests?
UPDATE: Catholic Culture reported that the President of the Italian Bishops’ Episcopal Commission for the Clergy and Consecrated Life and the Italian Bishops’ newspaper have denied media reports that newly ...
Vatican Overturns Bishop Olson’s Dismissal of Carmelite Nun
The Vatican has overturned a Texas bishop’s dismissal of a Carmelite nun from her order after she was accused of breaking her vow of chastity with a priest, weighing in ...
FLASHBACK: Pope Reportedly called Biden a ‘Good Catholic,’ said to ‘Keep Receiving Communion’?
President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday (Oct. 29, 2021) that when he met with Pope Francis earlier in the day, the pontiff told the president he was a “good ...
Did the Vatican Lie About Francis Calling Israel’s Response ‘Genocide’?
When I was told I would be leading a delegation of Palestinians to meet His Holiness Pope Francis, I was in awe and nervous as to what I would say ...
Pope’s Legal Crony Tries to Justify Bergoglio’s Rash Actions
A high-ranking Vatican official who oversees church law clarified on Tuesday (Nov. 28) the protocols for disciplining a bishop, saying any failure to act in communion with the church and ...
Strickland Won’t Be Going Away Gently Into The Night
Reached by email on Tuesday, Strickland told Religion News Service he was unaware of any resignation request from the Vatican, saying, “I have received no information on this from Rome.” ...
Bishops Should Immediately Excommunicate These ‘Catholic’ Lawmakers
A group of Catholic Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a “statement of principles” on Saturday (June 24) reaffirming their support for abortion rights and expanding on a ...
Lawsuit Alleges Cardinal McElroy Transferred Assets to Avoid Paying Sex Abuse Claims
A law firm representing alleged sexual abuse victims in California is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego, claiming the diocese fraudulently moved around real estate assets in an ...
WATCH: Banned from Communion in San Francisco, Pelosi Receives Eucharist in Washington DC
Two days after Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco announced he would bar her from receiving the Eucharist in her home city due to her stance on abortion rights, House ...
New Indictments and ‘Cardinal’s Lady’ Shake-Up Vatican Financial Trial
Vatican prosecutors issued new indictments Tuesday (Jan. 25) against four individuals involved in a financial scandal over the Roman Catholic Church’s money-losing investment in a London real estate deal, further ...
Former Economic Czar Warns the Vatican is Facing Major Deficit
Former Vatican economy czar Cardinal George Pell warns in a new book that the Catholic institution is facing a growing deficit, but he hopes financial reform efforts have put a ...
DC Priest Describes Culture of Cover-Up in Wake of McCarrick Scandal
In early February, the second-highest-ranking prelate in the Vatican told news outlets that a long-awaited report into the ascent of disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick would be published in the ...
