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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

Why the Vatican has stepped in at Lourdes

last week was very eventful, especially insofar as the politics of ecclesiastical crisis and scandal are concerned, so it is quite possible ...

Christopher R. Altieri

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...

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...

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 ...

The big story: Vatican department speaks out against 'gender theory'

what happened? the vatican’s education department has issued a new document on gender issues, saying that the trend towards transgender iden...

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 ...

Pope advances sainthood cause for women martyred in Spanish Civil War

on june 12, the vatican congregation for the causes of saints announced that pope francis had moved forward the causes of canonization for e...

Aaron Benavides