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…
President Joe Biden’s comments about his meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican earlier today are adding to the controversy between U.S. bishops over whether pro-abortion politicians should be able to receive the Eucharist. Biden stated that the pope told…
An odd article by the Catholic News Agency (CNA) appeared this week, alleging that Catholics at the White House resent Trump’s tweets touting “two figures with polarizing reputations among Catholics: former papal nuncio to the United States Archbishop Carlo Maria…
Good Friday is the day Christians commemorate the execution of Jesus the Christ by a particularly brutal means. It’s the reason we still have the cross as a widespread symbol, long after that method of capital punishment has been outlawed…
Earlier this year, James Grein, the primary victim of Theodore McCarrick, reported that he had also been abused by Joseph Bernardin, the late cardinal of Chicago. Grein said the abuse took place in Wisconsin at Lake Geneva. As Grein was…
