Germany’s Catholic bishops have abandoned their plans to form a forbidden Synodal Council to replace the authority of bishops with a democratic body of clergy and laity. On the eve of their annual plenary assembly, the German bishops were given…
Old Dominion’s Catholic bishops are calling on lawmakers to halt assisted suicide bills working their way through the state legislature. Bishops Michael Burbidge of the diocese of Arlington and Barry Knestout of the diocese of Richmond issued a statement last…
It didn’t take long for the world to respond — in a veritable firestorm — to the Vatican’s release of Fiducia supplicans just three weeks ago. Within days, images of priests donning vestments and blessing homosexual couples in front of…
Continuing its commitment to abusing the religious freedom and human rights of its people, the government of the People’s Republic of China, in collaboration with the Hong Kong government, began the trial this week of media mogul Jimmy Lai, who…
The year 2018 was a stark and, in many ways, defining one for the Catholic Church. Still slowly recovering from the ongoing revelations of the devastating clerical child sex abuse scandal and its widespread coverup by bishops, another major revelation…
A Catholic diocese is taking heat from elected officials for simply upholding Church teaching and — more appallingly, though perhaps not more shockingly — protecting children from being sexualized. Late last month, the Diocese of Cleveland issued clear norms for…
One of the most distinct and basic — though sometimes contentious — tenets of Catholic doctrine is that of papal supremacy. Catholics are morally and theologically bound to accept the authority and supremacy of the pope, the bishop of Rome,…
Archbishop John C. Wester of the Sante Fe diocese called the voices of LGBTQ Catholics “prophetic” at Outreach 2023, an LGBTQ Catholic ministry conference hosted by America Magazine. The conference “gathers LGBTQ lay people, clergy, scholars, artists, educators, students, and…
They say that no news is good news. Often, the opposite is true as well: good news is no news. The Catholic Church often makes headlines — and rightly so — for doing what it shouldn’t be doing. In recent…
