Catholic Church

Letters from the Vatican #3

grant, we pray, almighty god, that we may so follow the teaching and example of the bishop saint peter damian, that, putting nothing before ...
Xavier Rynne II

Chilean whistleblower to meet bishops ahead of abuse summit

juan carlos cruz, a clerical sex abuse whistleblower and a victim of fr fernando karadima, will meet with bishops and with fellow victims of...
Catholic News Agency

Notre Dame rescinds McCarrick's honorary degree

the university of notre dame has rescinded the honorary doctor of laws (ll.d.) degree it conferred on former cardinal theodore mccarrick in ...
Catholic News Agency

Supreme Court rejects abortion provider's attempt to get bishops' internal documents

the us supreme court has rejected hearing an appeal from whole woman’s health, a texas-based abortion facility chain, which aimed to get the...
Catholic News Service

Cologne's cardinal warns against inventing 'a new Church'

noting the challenges facing the church in germany, cardinal rainer maria woelki of cologne told ewtn last week that amid dispute over the c...
Catholic News Agency

Letters from the Vatican #2

the view from (and in) the u.s. thanks in part to the hyperventilating language of last year’s pennsylvania grand jury report (which followe...
Xavier Rynne II

McCarrick has gone. But McCarrickism lives on

the defrocking of the former cardinal, and now former priest, theodore mccarrick, might seem to draw a line under the whole sorry saga. but&...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Vatican restores priestly faculties to Ernesto Cardenal

pope francis has restored priestly faculties to 94-year-old fr. ernesto cardenal, who had been suspended a divinas in 1984 for holding a cab...
Catholic News Agency

Homosexuality is not a cause of the abuse crisis, says Cardinal Cupich

cardinal blase cupich said monday that this week’s vatican sex abuse summit needs to be focused on the protection of minors, underscoring th...
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Letters from the Vatican #1

great expectations? the whole course of christianity from the first ... is but one series of troubles and disorders. every century is like e...
Xavier Rynne II