Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: Question: When is a Synod of Bishops no longer a Synod of Bishops? Answer: When the participants are not bishops. This year Pope Francis will appoint 70 non-bishops to participate, as voting members, in the October … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Kevin J. Jones: More than 450 men are set to be ordained priests this year, and the survey of their ordination class shows that the overwhelming majority of priests-to-be were raised Catholic in intact families and individually … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: “At this point,” writes David Samuels, “fact that Robert F. Kennedy is the country’s leading ‘conspiracy theorist’ alone qualifies him to be president.” Samuels makes that curious claim in a long article for Tablet, which is … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Allowing Anglican ministers to concelebrate a liturgical service at an altar of the pope’s cathedral was a cause of scandal for Catholics that should never have happened, according to a prominent canonist, even if it … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Hannah Brockhaus: The Pontifical Academy for Life said Monday its president is against assisted suicide but thinks it is possible to have a “legal initiative” that would allow it to be decriminalized in Italy under “specific and … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a popular Dutch legal philosopher and political commentator who has become well-known in recent years for her criticism of increasingly prominent social ideologies in contemporary Western society, will be received into the Catholic … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: A historic Catholic church in central England that stood on the brink of closure is now flourishing, thanks to a priest of the personal ordinariate for former Anglicans who took over the running of the … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: Next weekend, April 28-30, the Satanic Temple is hosting a convention at a hotel in downtown Boston. The Boston archdiocese has responded with a call for “intense prayer,” while discouraging public demonstrations—which would only feed the … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Tyler Arnold: About 50 Anglican clergymen, who are not in communion with the Catholic Church, took part in religious services at the highest-ranking papal basilica in Rome on Tuesday, April 18. The Vatican later released a statement … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Peter Pinedo: Thanks to a gift from Pope Francis to King Charles III, two pieces of the true cross on which Jesus was crucified will lead the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom’s coronation procession May 6. … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: Relax, all you “radical traditionalist Catholics.” You needn’t worry about the FBI agents infiltrating your churches, looking for evidence of extremism. You aren’t under suspicion. Those government agents are there to help you. That’s the reassuring … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Walter Sanchez Silva: Bishop Stephen Chow of Hong Kong arrived yesterday in Beijing, the capital of China, on a historic trip — the first of its kind in almost 30 years — and amid some tensions between … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Valuable sacred Catholic artifacts, including papal slippers, a rosary of Marie Antoinette, and a Book of Hours belonging to a martyred courtier to King Henry VIII, are part of a treasure trove of significant objects … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Hannah Brockhaus: On Monday Pope Francis introduced a limit of 80 years of age for retired bishops and patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches to take part in decisional voting. In the motu proprio Iam Pridem, issued … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Kathy Schiffer: On a Wing and a Prayer, a contemporary story of faith and survival, debuted April 7 on Amazon Prime, and within a day, it garnered the No. 1 spot for Amazon’s streaming service. The title … Continue reading
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