Catholic News

What happens when a priest is too traditional for his parish?

it’s something of a trope these days. first, a young priest is assigned to a new parish, where he reintroduces elements of the pre-vatican i...
Michael Warren Davis

World news: from Houston to Hong Kong

peoria, illinois archbishop sheen’s body will be moved as appeal fails the body of venerable fulton sheen will be moved to peoria, after a l...
Staff writers

The best of the web: Sign language, papal press conferences and Twitter's demons

clerics who helped create sign language for millennia, wrote inés antón dayas at national geographic, those “with hearing impairments encoun...
Staff writers

Overlooked: Five bishops issue 'declaration of truths'

what happened? cardinal raymond burke and three bishops from kazakhstan have signed a document aiming to affirm traditional church teaching ...
Staff writers

Hurrah for the language of prostitutes, beggars, pimps – and bishops

the vatican unveiled its latest innovation last saturday: a news bulletin spoken entirely in latin. hebdomada papae (“the pope’s week”) is a...
The Catholic Herald

US bishops vote to create hotline for reporting abuse by bishops

a nationwide third-party system for receiving confidential reports of "certain complaints" against bishops took a step closer to being imple...
Dennis Sadowski

Morning Catholic must-reads: 13/06/19

a poll has found that a quarter of us catholics have reduced their mass attendance because of the abuse crisis ( full report ). the vatican ...
Luke Coppen

Notre-Dame to celebrate first post-fire Mass on Saturday

notre-dame cathedral has announced it will celebrate its first mass on june 15, two months after a fire damaged the iconic french church. th...
Aaron Benavides

Morning Catholic must-reads: 12/06/19

the first mass since fire broke out in april will be celebrated at notre-dame on june 15 . indian police have exhumed the body of a bishop w...
Luke Coppen

Bishops to return 'gifts' from disgraced Bishop Bransfield

several cardinals, bishops, and priests, have said they will return money given to them by bishop michael j. bransfield, the former head of ...
Aaron Benavides