May 5 was the snowiest day of California’s 2023-2024 season, with an accumulation of 26.4 inches. The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab also pegged March 3 as the second-snowiest day, with 23.8 inches, forcing motorists to put on chains….
A one-month-old baby is being evacuated from the U.K. to the Vatican’s Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome for treatment of a congenital heart condition. The British National Health Service (NHS) told the baby’s parents that specialized treatment for the…
Just over two years ago, the courageous Australian cardinal George Pell, the late outspoken defender of the Catholic Church, referred to the pontificate of Pope Francis as “a disaster” and “a catastrophe.” Writing under the pseudonym “Demos” (Greek for “the…
In a surprising move, a typically left-of-center Catholic cardinal is praising the Vatican’s new declaration Dignitas infinita for its approach to LGBT issues. In a recent interview, Washington, D.C.’s Cardinal Wilton Gregory said that the new Vatican document, which addresses “gender…
It’s moments like these when Pope Francis’ pastoral attitude and openness to secular liberals is beneficial. On Monday, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released a major doctrinal declaration on human dignity. Titled Dignitas infinita, the document…
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…
Germany’s Catholic bishops may be preparing to defy the Vatican, despite Pope Francis’s efforts to rein in the heterodox prelates. The German Bishops’ Conference will meet tomorrow for its annual Spring plenary assembly, where the bishops may move forward with…
Blue eyes. Blond hair. Somewhere between 5’9 and 6’3. Does that sound like the ideal baby boy? Or maybe you wanted a girl with brown hair and green eyes who would grow to be 5’3. Until very recently, that wasn’t…
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…
