During his recent trip to Hungary, Pope Francis addressed one of the most contentious decisions of his pontificate: the restrictions he has made on the Tridentine Mass. For those unfamiliar, the Tridentine Mass is the form of the Catholic liturgy…
The Vatican recently rejected an attempt by wayward German Catholics to turn the Church’s hierarchical structure into just another democracy. The Archdiocese of Paderborn announced 14 lay Catholics would join a clerical committee voting to select a new archbishop —…
Media sources report that the Vatican is accusing the Chinese government of unilaterally appointing a new bishop to Shanghai in violation of a “secret pact” that Pope Francis and Chinese officials renewed last October. Shanghai is the largest Roman Catholic…
With the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, traditionalist Catholics lost their greatest champion in the Vatican hierarchy. Reportedly, Benedict’s last words on New Year’s Eve were: “Lord, I love you.” Those words are a fitting epitaph for Joseph Ratzinger,…
A couple of months ago I was in a fascinating conversation with a Catholic colleague regarding the papacies of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, here in the ninth year of this curious era, 2013-22, when the world was living…
A fired Vatican auditor and his deputy are suing the Holy See for $9.25 million, “alleging they were sacked after discovering financial irregularities,” according to an account by Reuters this week. The auditor, Libero Milone, says that Pope Francis signed…
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has called the Synod on Synodality a potential “hostile takeover of the Church of Jesus Christ.” Pope Francis announced last week that he is adding…
“You can make the earth a magnificent garden — or you can make it a desert of death.” -The pope, addressing the people of Rome in the summer of 2022 “The pope might want to look into his own backyard…
Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, appeared on Tuesday on Steve Bannon’s War Room, where he criticized the Vatican’s Ostpolitik approach to the Chinese Communist Party regime. He contrasted Pope Francis’ weakness and servile attitude toward China today with previous…
Former Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland, one of the most influential liberal American prelates of the 20th century, died last Monday. He resigned in 2002 after it came out that he had paid hush money to a male Marquette University graduate…