National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: As the current phase of the Synod on Synodality draws to a close, some of the assembly participants have questioned whether it is a Synod of Bishops given that, for the first time, lay members … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Jonah McKeown: New data from the Vatican show that Africa added the greatest number of Catholics in 2021 out of all the continents and that all the world’s continents registered at least a modest increase in the … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Jonah McKeown: Concerned students at the University of Notre Dame have objected to an upcoming drag show set to be held on campus as part of a one-credit course, which the university has defended as falling under … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Nicolás de Cárdenas: On Nov. 18, the Archdiocese of Seville will celebrate the beatification of 20 martyrs of the systematic religious persecution carried out during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. The 20 martyrs to be beatified in … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Tina Dennelly: Pope Francis and U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone on Sunday afternoon to discuss “the latest developments in Israel and Gaza,” according to a statement from the White House. The Holy See Press Office … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Joe Bukuras: The Diocese of Stockton, California, has issued a warning about a pair of imposters posing as Catholic clergymen in the city of Modesto and charging high fees for blessings and sacraments. The diocese said that … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Cardinal George Pell was “prescient” in identifying “all the key issues” about the current Synod on Synodality, but what troubled him most was “the attack on divine Revelation” with the resulting possibility that development of … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: No, Pope Francis has not actually said that the Church can offer blessings for same-sex unions. He has not said that. But at this late date, can anyone still doubt that’s what he thinks—and that it … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: A final Vatican hearing yesterday of the Vatican’s ex-auditor Libero Milone lawsuit against the Vatican lasted just 30 minutes, much shorter than expected, and a verdict is expected before Christmas. Milone is suing the Vatican … Continue reading
JERUSALEM, Israel (LifeSiteNews) – An Israeli boy featured in a video used to push COVID vaccines on children in a nationwide campaign died tragically from a sudden heart attack in late September. The boy was only 8 years old. According to reports, Yonatan Moshe Erlichman, … Continue reading
(LifeSiteNews) — A bombshell report was released this year evidencing a scandal that ranks among the worst in its evil: the euthanization of patients for the sake of profit. It made enough of a splash to spur new industry protocols … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Courtney Mares: Pope Francis, who is known as “the pope of the peripheries,” has suggested the possibility of traveling to somewhere no pope has gone before — the South Pole. In a new interview published on Oct. … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: As well as withholding the names of who is seated in which small groups, the Vatican is also declining to share with journalists the complete list of those who will be drafting the final synthesis … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: In my post here yesterday I argued that in the wake of the terrorist attacks by Hamas, a military response from Israel is morally justifiable—in fact obligatory—by the traditional standards of just-war theory. But as I … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Who is sitting with whom at the Synod on Synodality, and what topics are they discussing, exactly? The managers of the assembly, which runs through Oct. 29, refuse to say, leaving outsiders in the dark … Continue reading
Site development: Bonaventure
