Catholic Church

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...
Courtney Grogan/CNA

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

Morning Catholic must-reads: 19/02/19

pope francis is surrounded by people with a “courtier mentality” , cardinal gerhard müller has told der spiegel. a french judge has refused ...
Luke Coppen

A beautiful introduction to the greatest story ever told

having grown up in a catholic milieu in the 1950s, i am always slightly envious of friends who are converts from protestant or evangelical c...
Francis Phillips

Pope knew about McCarrick allegations but dismissed them, claims writer of new exposé

archbishop carlo viganò told pope francis about allegations against theodore mccarrick, but the pope dismissed them because they did not con...
Staff Reporter