A devout Catholic is voicing his concern that an active homosexual is continuing to serve in his church’s music ministry and has been promoted to an administrative church position despite the bishop and pastor’s knowledge that his lifestyle defies Church teaching. Leo Martinez, a clerical abuse survivor, told LifeSiteNews he requested a meeting with his … Read more
When asked, “Do you want some ice cream?” some people used to jokingly respond, “Is the Pope Catholic?” Today, many question whether the Pope, many members of the hierarchy, and even many Catholics are truly “Catholic.” While Catholics recognize that there are non-Catholics who live more Christ-like lives than some Catholics, they believe that Catholicism, … Read more
The Church as founded by Christ listens only to God, not to man, but the Bishop of Rome has a different idea. Pope Leo has said that he wants the Church to be an “open house” that “listens without judging.” In his prayer video for October 2026, he said: “May your Church be an open house, … Read more
On Thursday, Leo XIV welcomed leaders of the Lutheran World Federation to Rome and looked ahead enthusiastically to 2030, the five-hundredth anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. That would be the Augsburg Confession of Philipp Melanchthon. Luther’s collaborator. The foundational Lutheran text presented to Emperor Charles V in 1530. The confession whose disputed articles helped define … Read more
Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte has written to congratulate Jewish professor Amy-Jill Levine on her election as president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America and to condole with her over what he called the “hateful and antisemitic messages” that he said followed the appointment. “I was delighted to learn of your appointment as President … Read more
The General Secretariat of the Synod has published the Final Report of the Canonical Commission for a Synodal Church, a working document that proposes amending various canons of the Code of Canon Law to incorporate into the legal system some of the conclusions of the synodal process carried out between 2021 and 2024. The text, … Read more
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 perseverance. Organized by Outreach, the Catholic LGBTQ ministry founded by Jesuit Fr. James Martin, the Sept. 25-27 pilgrimage drew on the structure of the Easter … Read more
Students, parishioners and pastors in the Archdiocese of Detroit gathered Sept. 30 at Sacred Heart Major Seminary to discuss the Catholic Church’s role in caring for the environment, and how best to implement its lessons and teachings. Fifty-seven people participated in the “Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor” Synodal Listening Session hosted by … Read more
Three of the twelve organizations that on Tuesday, September 29 demanded that the Government withdraw the decree to speed up expulsions from Ceuta are leaving the Society of Jesus: the Jesuit Migrant Service, Entreculturas and Oxfam Intermón, founded in 1956 as the Secretariat of Missions and Propaganda of the Jesuits. The names of those who … Read more
The president of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), Bishop Heiner Wilmer, announced that he will bring to Rome the experiences gathered in meetings with different types of couples, including “same-sex couples” and divorced persons living in a second civil union, on the occasion of the upcoming meeting on Amoris laetitia. According to the German media … Read more