Msgr. Leo Maasburg is national director of the Pontifical Missionary Work in Austria. For several years after his ordination in 1982 he accompanied Mother Teresa of Calcutta on many journeys to destinations ranging from Moscow […]
The long-running struggle between the Vatican and China’s government-backed Catholic Patriotic Association continued through the summer, with the Holy See formally announcing the excommunication of bishops who had been illicitly ordained, and the Patriotic Association […]
Pope Benedict XVI’s removal last May of Bishop William Morris from his leadership of the Diocese of Toowoomba in the Australian state of Queensland has caused rows within the Church in Australia and made news […]
On June 4, Pope Benedict began a two-day apostolic journey to Croatia, a land bathed in Christians’ blood since the early days of the Church. St. Venantius, the bishop of Salona, in what was then […]
As 200 Roman Catholic bishops arrived in Seattle—one of the most secularized and un-churched areas of the country—with a conference agenda covering controversial issues, some drama was to be expected. The United States Catholic Conference […]
On July 5, Father John Corapi’s order, the Corpus Christi, Texas-based Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, released a statement saying that the well-known priest had violated his priestly vows of poverty, […]
In 1984, Mario Cuomo, then governor of New York, famously declared in a speech before fawning Catholic intellectuals at Notre Dame that he was personally opposed to abortion but publicly supportive of a right to […]
In May 2011 the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, the Roman dicastery responsible for questions connected with the traditional Latin Mass, issued the instruction Universae Ecclesiae. That instruction concerns the implementation of Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict […]
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