Vatican-ordered investigation targets Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas…

Vatican-ordered investigation targets Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas…

CNA, CBJ—The Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops has completed a formal investigation of Bishop Joseph E. Strickland and the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, according to multiple media reports and confirmed by EWTN News. Apolstolic Visitation The inquiry, known as an apostolic visitation, marks a rare though not unprecedented intervention by Rome into a U.S. diocese and…

St. John Paul II on the Critical Importance of Fathers

St. John Paul II on the Critical Importance of Fathers

“Love for his wife as mother of their children and love for the children themselves are for the man the natural way of understanding and fulfilling his own fatherhood. Above all where social and cultural conditions so easily encourage a father to be less concerned with his family or at any rate less involved in…

San Francisco Archbishop Speaks Out: California Catholics Under Attack

San Francisco Archbishop Speaks Out: California Catholics Under Attack

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco wrote a masterful summary of the history of violence against Catholics in the U.S., including felony crimes committed recently in San Francisco and other cities. Vandals get off with a misdemeanor charge for defacing a statue as police looked on. Below are clips of the original story that…

Read Full Text: Archbishop Cordileone sharply rebukes Marin County DA in St. Junipero Vandals Case: “What You Propose is Not a Punishment that Fits the Crime”

Read Full Text: Archbishop Cordileone sharply rebukes Marin County DA in St. Junipero Vandals Case: “What You Propose is Not a Punishment that Fits the Crime”

In October of 2020, a group of protestors trespassed on Mission San Rafael, a Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and desecrated and toppled a beloved statue of St. Junipero Serra. The crime was witnessed by the police, caught on videotape. Five were arrested and charged with felony vandalism. Today in court the…

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland: The German Bishops Error and the True Understanding of the Development of Doctrine

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland: The German Bishops Error and the True Understanding of the Development of Doctrine

“The time is sure to come when people will not accept sound teaching, but their ears will be itching for anything new and they will collect themselves a whole series of teachers according to their own tastes; and then they will shut their ears to the truth…” (2 Tim. 3:4,5) The Apostle Paul issued that…

The Camino and Daily Life, an interview with Four Bishops

The Camino and Daily Life, an interview with Four Bishops

As precursor to a film on The Camino, below please find a conversation with four bishops who have walked The Camino many times  — Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wisconsin, Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Bishop James Wall of Gallup, New Mexico.  Together, along with moderator Kathryn…

As We Forgive: A Lenten pastoral note from Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila

As We Forgive: A Lenten pastoral note from Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila

As we begin this season of Lent, I want to remind each of us that mercy is at the heart of the Gospel message, of the essential importance that forgiveness plays in our lives, and how crucial it is for our country right now. Those of us who have received the mercy of God play…

“Lourdes: The Journey from Sickness to Health, from Darkness to Light, from Earth to Heaven”

“Lourdes: The Journey from Sickness to Health, from Darkness to Light, from Earth to Heaven”

In the heart of Rome, in the middle of the Tiber River between the neighborhood known as Trastevere to the southwest and the Ghetto to the northeast, there sits an island connected to the mainland by a bridge on either side.  The bridges were built in ancient Roman times, and still stand and are used…

Bishop Barron calls out Minnesota’s new abortion law as ‘the worst kind of barbarism’

Bishop Barron calls out Minnesota’s new abortion law as ‘the worst kind of barbarism’

Jan. 31, 2023—Winona-Rochester, Minnesota’s Bishop Robert Barron wastes no time condemning Minnesota’s newly passed abortion law as “the worst kind of barbarism.” “Basically, it eliminates any kind of parental notifications,” Bishop Barron continues, “so a 12-year-old child can get an abortion without even telling her parents about it!” Immediately following Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) signing…

Thousands mourn Cardinal Pell at Sydney funeral: ‘Be not afraid’ was his motto

Thousands mourn Cardinal Pell at Sydney funeral: ‘Be not afraid’ was his motto

CNA, CBJ—The late Cardinal George Pell’s funeral Mass drew thousands of mourners, filling Sydney’s St. Mary’s Cathedral to capacity. Civic leaders, friends and members of Pell’s family remembered the Australian cardinal’s dedication to the Church and the Gospel, in addition to his courage in the face of many obstacles, including more than a year in…

St. Agnes, Patron Saint of the New Chapter in Building a Culture of Life — (Full Text of Archbishop Cordileone)

St. Agnes, Patron Saint of the New Chapter in Building a Culture of Life — (Full Text of Archbishop Cordileone)

San Francisco, Jan. 21, 2023—Full text of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s homily at newly comissioned Mass for Life which debuted on the Feast of St. Agnes prior he 2023 Walk for Life West Coast. Full text (and video) follows. When the idea first came to me to commission a new Mass of sacred music for…

Select Video Interviews and Three Prison Journals: The Inspiring, Down-to-Earth Wisdom of Cardinal Pell, made more profound in a prison cell

Select Video Interviews and Three Prison Journals: The Inspiring, Down-to-Earth Wisdom of Cardinal Pell, made more profound in a prison cell

Written to offer hope to strengthen others, Cardinal Pell wrote three pages a day during his 13 months in prison. These pages became three published books referred to as Cardinal Pell’s prison journals: Prison Journal, Volume 1 — George Cardinal Pell, George Weigel Prison Journal, Volume 2: The State Court Rejects the Appeal — George…

FULL TEXT: Pope Francis’ homily for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord

FULL TEXT: Pope Francis’ homily for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord

The following is the full text of Pope Francis’ homily for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 6, 2023. Like a rising star (cf. Num 24:17), Jesus comes to enlighten all peoples and to brighten the nights of humanity. Today, with the Magi, let us lift…

Benedict XVI: ‘A role model for holiness’

Benedict XVI: ‘A role model for holiness’

In an interview with Vatican News, Dr. Michael Hesemann, a close friend of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and his brother Georg Ratzinger, says: “instead of mourning, it is time to thank God that he was among us”, and reflects on how “we all had the opportunity to rediscover Christianity by his constant inspiration,…

Bishops reflect on personal memories of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI

Bishops reflect on personal memories of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and archbishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services:  “I remember many meetings with him while I served in the Secretariat of State, and I will never forget his greeting to me at the first General Audience I attended some weeks after his…

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s address to Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International (MD4CE International)

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s address to Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International (MD4CE International)

Dear and distinguished friends, Allow me first of all to thank Doctor Stephen Frost for the invitation he has extended to me to speak to you. Along with Doctor Frost I also thank all of you: your commitment to fighting the psychopandemic propaganda is commendable. I am well aware of the difficulties you have had…

Benedict XVI writes about ‘inner drama of being a Christian’ in new letter

Benedict XVI writes about ‘inner drama of being a Christian’ in new letter

In a new letter, Benedict XVI praised the story of a woman who lived “the inner drama of being a Christian” and dedicated her life to the spiritual encounter with Christ in eucharistic adoration and other practices. The pope emeritus wrote that his own personal experience was similar to what Mother Julia Verhaeghe went through…

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