(CWN) — Pope Leo XIV today named Msgr. Josef Grünwidl, 62, as the new archbishop of Vienna, a see whose last ten archbishops have been created cardinals, dating back to 1858. Ordained to the priesthood in 1988, Archbishop-designate Grünwidl was appointed by Pope Francis … Continue reading
(Unam Sanctam Catholicam/USC YouTube channel) Knoxville’s Bishop Mark Beckman cancels all Traditional Latin Masses in the eastern Tennessee diocese. For more coverage, go to this piece at Rorate Caeli: Traditional Latin Mass annihilated in the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee (Update: … Continue reading
The Associated Press reported yesterday on the good news that the FBI is terminating its longstaninding relationship with the SPLC and the ADL. Below is an AI-produced summary of the article: 1 The Associated Press reports that FBI Director Kash … Continue reading
This does not appear very synodal. (Jonathan Liedl/National Catholic Register) — The meetings of two groups of Illinois Catholic leaders chaired by Cardinal Blase Cupich were postponed indefinitely last week after a lay leader requested that the Chicago cardinal-archbishop’s controversial … Continue reading
Longitime friends of Saint Benedict Center, attendees of our annual conference, and readers of Catholicism.org will be saddened, as we were, to learn of the death of our old friend and collaborator, Mr. Gary Potter. Today, I was informed by … Continue reading
Last year, Dr. Natalie A. Lindemann published a scholarly journal article on predictors of Catholics’ belief in the Real Presence. Dr. Lindemann is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. She recently … Continue reading
VATICAN CITY (Antonino Cambria/LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a Pontifical High Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica at the end of October for the annual Ad Petri Sedem Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage at the Vatican. Burke will celebrate the Solemn Traditional … Continue reading
(Emily Mangiaracina/LifeSiteNews) — A celebrity who regularly performs pornographically for reggaeton music videos will be singing at the upcoming Vatican concert “Grace for the World.” Karol G, one of the most popular singers of reggaeton music, a lowbrow Latin genre known … Continue reading
VATICAN CITY (Andreas Wailzer/LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV has named a female “artist” who published homoerotic and sadomasochistic photographs as the new president of the Pontifical Academy for Fine Arts. The Vatican announced on Saturday that the pope appointed Roman museum director … Continue reading
Writing today for the Boston Globe, Klara Vlahčević Lisinski asks Is this the end of Palestinian statehood? The article’s subheading is an adequate summary: “The Netanyahu government’s approval of a huge West Bank settlement fits into a broader push toward … Continue reading
In Father Martin meets the Pope: a scandal, but not a surprise, Phil Lawler has injected a bit of realism into the discussion over Pope Leo’s recent meeting with the attention-hungry homosexualist heretic. Particularly worthy of attention is the contrast … Continue reading
(Catholic World News) — Organizations with significantly different purposes—including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the ACLU—have filed amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs on behalf of five faith-based New Jersey pregnancy centers. … Continue reading
(Edgar Beltrán/The Pillar) — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday appointed Fr. Raffaele De Angelis as Eparch of Piana degli Albanesi of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, located in Sicily. The appointment comes after a five-year vacancy in the see. In February … Continue reading
[Religion Clause] Loe v. Jett, (D MN, Aug. 22, 2025), is a challenge to a 2023 Amendment to Minnesota’s Post Secondary Education Option (PSEO) statute. The statute allows high school students to enroll in nonsectarian college courses in colleges in the … Continue reading
(Catholic World News) — The editorial director of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication condemned a proposal to relocate Gaza’s population, describing it as “a kind of new order in which, however, there seems to be no place for the Palestinian people.” … Continue reading
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