Pope Francis said in an interview with Reuters on July 2 that he would appoint two women to the committee to elect bishops in the Dicastery for Bishops. The announcement comes in the wake of the promulgation of a new…

In an age where many bishops have become enablers of misbehavior by their sheep, one bishop has stretched out his crozier. On Thursday, Bishop Robert McManus of the Diocese of Worcester, which is located in central Massachusetts, decided that the…

Whoopi Goldberg, who has said that she got six or seven abortions by the age of 25, recently pronounced on The View that San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has no right to bar Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion. “This is not your…

A Monday night in January when the temperature is 19 degrees isn’t the best time to realize everything you believe about the Catholic Church is a minority opinion. But there I was, driving to my parish church in the wake…

On January 11, 2022, Sante Fe, New Mexico, Archbishop John C. Wester issued a pastoral letter calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and held a press conference announcing the letter which is entitled “Living in the Light of Christ’s…

In August, Harvard named Greg Epstein, an atheist, to serve as its chaplain. Epstein described his unusual appointment as a sign of the times. “There is a rising group of people who no longer identify with any religious tradition,” he…

A Vatican office flip-flopped this weekend and decided to promote an LGBTQ organization, New Ways Ministry, on the “resources” page of its website. Last week, the office, the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, removed the organization from its…

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with a response from Francis DeBernardo.  Francis DeBernardo, the executive director of the LGBTQ advocacy group New Ways Ministry, claimed Wednesday that the organization received two friendly letters from Pope Francis in May…

Cardinal Roger Mahony, the retired archbishop of Los Angeles, is notorious for his role in the Church’s abuse scandal. In 2013, he was “removed from all public duties by his successor, Archbishop José H. Gomez, as the church complied with…

Julia Meloni’s new book The St. Gallen Mafia provides a valuable service to readers curious about the origins of the current pontificate. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she fills in the picture of the St. Gallen Mafia, a…