Document leaks fuel speculation about schism within the SSPX on the eve of major CDF meeting.
A letter
by the General Superior of the Society of St. Pius X clarifying his response to
Rome’s Doctrinal Preamble was submitted to the Vatican on April 17 and now
awaits review on May 16 by the “Wednesday meeting” of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith. The cardinals and bishops of the CDF will discuss Bishop
Bernard Fellay’s response, and then deliver their i...
Amid calls for his resignation, Brady apologizes to victims after new revelations concerning serial abuser Father Brendan Smyth.
With just a month
to go until the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, Irish
Catholics are again reeling following further revelations of Church mishandling
of abuse allegations.
The Eucharistic
Congress—which is expected to attract some 80,000 pilgrims—will be the largest
religious event since the memorable visit of Blessed Pope John Paul II in 1979.
Hopes that the ...
“The many bear responsibility for the all. The community of the many
must be the lamp on the lampstand, a city on the hilltop, yeast for all.
There is a vocation that affects each one of us individually, quite
personally. The many, that...
Media reports often presume accused priests are guilty until proven innocent, doing irreparable damage to the lives of the wrongly accused.
When a Catholic priest is publicly accused of the crime of abuse, it
is typical for the media to trumpet the name of the cleric, while allowing the accuser to remain
completely anonymous throughout the ordeal.
Although this situation is not unique to Catholic priests, it is a
practice that clergy have frequently griped about in private, and it is an
issue that has received almost no public at...
Pope
Benedict XVI
has
observed that “Christianity,
Catholicism, isn’t a collection of prohibitions: it’s a positive option. It’s
very important that we look at it again because this idea has almost completely
disappeared today. We’ve heard so much about what is ...