The culture wars over critical race theory , gender theory , and coronavirus protocols that ignited a nationwide movement of parent activism have spread beyond public education. Once seen as a refuge from activist public school teachings and pandemic closures, Catholic schools are in the midst of their own internal struggles of whether to wade … Read more
Archbishop Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., has refused to comment publicly on whether he supports the barring of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) from receiving Holy Communion in light of her stance on abortion, with his office saying in a blunt and mistakenly sent email to the Washington Examiner that requests “will be … Read more
The Washington Examiner reports: In a challenge to those attending today’s 49th annual March For Life, pro-abortion rights messages were projected on the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Thursday night. Religious News Service reporter Jack Jenkins posted photos of the protest, which he said came during the basilica’s “prayer vigil for … Read more
The fact that these three self-professed Catholics are able to attend Mass with no consequences from our Church leadership is a deep-rooted scandal within our own ranks. We have been abandoned by our bishops, who are supposed to be teachers of our beautiful faith and not lead their flock astray, as they have so terribly … Read more
Why didn’t U.S. Bishops write this letter to Attorney General Barr? A Republican congressman is calling on the Justice Department to step up its fight against religious bigotry and to defend religious worship amid an uptick in anti-Catholic vandalism that has followed the protests and the violence in recent months. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee … Read more
A Catholic church in New Haven, Connecticut, Thursday morning was found defaced with Satanic symbols, according to church leadership. The church, which houses the congregation of St. Mary’s, where the Catholic lay order the Knights of Columbus was founded, was vandalized between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., John Paul Walker, the church’s pastor, wrote in … Read more
St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Capitol Hill is one of the most elite parish locations in the United States. Thanks to it being the official local parish of the House of Representatives, one regularly expects to share kneelers and holy water fonts with congressmen, prominent members of the media, and the assorted “that guy” provincial … Read more
The past year has seen unprecedented government investigation of the Catholic Church in the United States. Kicked off by the seminarian sex abuse cover-up scandal of former-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick last summer, the ecclesiastical atmosphere has since taken on a Watergate-like avalanche quality. The Pennsylvania attorney general (and dozens of state attorneys general since then), the … Read more
These are dark days for the Catholic Church, particularly in the United States. Of Pennsylvania’s eight Catholic dioceses, seven reported receiving subpoenas this week from the Justice Department, marking a major development in the state’s growing involvement in the clergy sex-abuse scandal. “The Diocese of Pittsburgh has received the subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice and … Read more
George Zirwas was known to be part of a small ring of gay predatory priests in the Pittsburgh diocese who got teenaged boys drunk and sexually assaulted them. Even after the ring was exposed and Zirwas’s compatriots were put on trial in 1988, prosecutors couldn’t charge Zirwas with a crime, although multiple criminal activities of … Read more