National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: As the Chinese Communist Party continues to enforce its Sinicization program, placing ever tighter controls on religions and co-opting them to promote Marxist doctrine, the Vatican remains largely silent publicly despite the program’s total incompatibility … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Walter Sanchez Silva: On March 17, 1697, on the feast day of St. Patrick and in the same year penal laws were enacted in Ireland banning Catholic bishops and priests from the country, an image of the … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Tyler Arnold: A synod of German bishops overwhelmingly approved Church blessings of same-sex unions and unions between divorced and remarried Catholics, but the move has faced harsh criticism from some members of the Catholic hierarchy who have accused the … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: In the UK, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has proposed that the government should subsidize free daycare for all children nine months old or older. Hunt argues that this measure, expensive as would be, would actually ease pressures … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Nicolás de Cárdenas: Spanish seminaries continue to suffer a downward trend in enrollment. According to official data from the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, in the 2022-2023 academic year the total number of aspirants to the priesthood is fewer … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Tyler Arnold A popular canon law website, CanonLaw.Ninja, is removing much of its content by Friday, March 17, to comply with a copyright complaint, which will leave the website without an English translation of the Catholic Church’s Code … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Hannah Brockhaus: Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, has been named to a small committee planning the Vatican’s October assembly for the Synod on Synodality. Flores, 61, is one of three bishops on the preparatory commission, … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Kevin J. Jones: A Texas man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of his aborted unborn child. The lawsuit seeks more than $1 million from each of the three women the man says helped his … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Hannah Brockhaus: A Catholic order of knighthood has signed a leasing agreement that will allow a Four Seasons hotel to manage part of a historic building close to the Vatican. The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: In an interview posted today, Cardinal Pietro Parolin expressed opposition to the German bishops’ decision to offer blessings for same-sex unions. So far, so good. But the reasons that the Vatican Secretary of State gave for … Continue reading
In your charity, please pray for the repose of the soul of Sarah Grant, wife of Ryan Grant, owner of Mediatrix Press and frequent guest on Brother André Marie’s RECONQUEST radio show. She died Sunday after a short battle with … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Jonah McKeown: Pope Francis was elected to the papacy 10 years ago, on March 13, 2013. How has the worldwide Catholic Church changed since then? Statistically speaking, the Church has grown, keeping pace with and even exceeding … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Tyler Arnold: “What is the nature of journalism? What are we getting right and what are we getting wrong?” Father Dave Pivonka, the president of Franciscan University, inquired during the opening speech at a conference jointly hosted … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Jonathan Liedl: The German Synodal Way has voted to adopt “implementation texts” related to same-sex blessings, lay preaching during Mass, and a request for Pope Francis to reexamine the discipline of priestly celibacy in the Latin-rite Catholic … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: At his Wednesday public audience this week, Pope Francis compared Vatican II with the first council of the young Church, the Council of Jerusalem. Both councils, the Pope remarked, issued a call to evangelize the world. … Continue reading
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