Day: January 4, 2022

Hypocrisy on Family Problems

For 60 years, U.S. bishops, for the most part, have not only been silent on Church teaching, they have also openly opposed it. Church Militant’s Joe Gallagher talks about one bishop who has been part of the problem. Cdl. Timothy Dolan, archbishop, New York: “Marriage and children are two things that seem to be in jeopardy today. Fewer and […]

Archbishop Paglia endorses vaccination for children as ‘positive sign’ (Edward Pentin)

The president of the Pontifical Council for Life has strongly endorsed Covid vaccination for children, despite statistical evidence that children are rarely infected with the disease. Archbishop Vincent Paglia said that the vaccination of children shows that “society takes care of the weakest, thinking above all of protecting the future of new generations.” The archbishop […]

2021 was ‘most violent year’ for India’s Christians (Fides)

Anti-Christian violence in India reached an all-time high in 2021, with 486 episodes recorded in the year, the United Christian Forum reports. The acts of violence peaked toward the end of the year, with 180 incidents recorded in the last three months, with a flurry of attacks just before Christmas. The violence was attributable almost […]

Christian proportion of US population continues to decline (Pew Forum)

The percentage of Americans who identify themselves as Christians has dropped by 15% in the past 15 years, a new Pew survey shows. Over the same period of time, the percentage of “nones”—Americans who identify themselves with no religion—jumped by 13%. Christians remain a majority of the country’s population, at 63%. But the trend suggests […]

Vatican archbishop’s memo puts Secretariat of State at center of financial trial (Pillar)

An April 2021 memo from Archbishop Pena Parra, the deputy Secretary of State, could shift the focus of the Vatican financial trial. Archbishop Pena Parra—who occupies the sostituto post previously held by Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most prominent defendant in the landmark trial—warned in his memo that the investment strategies he discovered there were “aimed […]

COMMENTARY: ‘How long, Lord?’

“My soul too is shuddering greatly — and you, Lord, how long?” (Ps 6:4) “The Lord has heard the sound of my weeping … they will turn back in sudden disgrace.” (Ps 6:9,11) This new year, perhaps more than most, stirs up awareness of time and its strange ways. Through the unsettling days of 2020 […]