Catholic is only candidate in Hong Kong chief executive election (Pillar)
John Lee, Hong Kong’s former Secretary of Security and a Catholic layman, has been sanctioned by the US government and banned from YouTube for his role in eroding civil liberties in Hong Kong.
Priest in Nigeria released 40 days after abduction (Catholic World Report)
Father Felix Zakari Fidson was abducted in Kaduna State (map), where the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram has been active.
Colorado parish defaced with pro-abortion graffiti for 2nd time in 7 months (CNA)
Since May 2020, there have been at least 129 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at parishes and other Catholic sites in the United States.
Cardinal Ranjith: German bishops’ Synodal Path is unacceptable (National Catholic Register)
In an interview, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Sri Lanka, a former Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship (2005-2009), praised the Pope’s curial reform and said he “cannot accept” the German bishops’ Synodal Path.
California bishops ask Supreme Court to review case challenging statute of limitations (RNS)
The bishops, in their court filing, stated they were under “an unconstitutional double-revival regime,” as the statute of limitations for sexual-abuse lawsuits was lifted for a year in 2002, and was again lifted in 2019.
FLORIDA OPPORTUNITY ALERT: Treasures of the Church
An FYI for you readers in FLORIDA. Fr. Carlos Martins, who had the apostolate with relics of saints called “Treasures of the Church” is presently in Florida, making a circuit of the states, pretty much a different city and parish … Read More →
It’s Time to Clean Up the Mess
How bad must things get before we can all agree that the sky is actually falling and that Chicken Little was right all along? Forget the secular scene, where Biden-induced disasters have become pretty much standard issue. What about that far greater and deeper and richer dimension, the one that Holy Mother Church herself presides […]
Pope plows forward with schedule despite first appearance in wheelchair
ROME – For the first time, Pope Francis Thursday was seen in public being transported in a wheelchair to an audience with the leaders of women’s religious communities, which the Vatican ascribed to his recent difficulties with knee pain. In each of the previous two papacies prior to Francis, for both John Paul II and […]
First U.S. diocesan synod results show need to reach youth, marginalized
NEW YORK – Key findings cited in the first U.S. diocesan synod report available for public consumption highlight a strong desire from parishioners for the Church to better reach out to the marginalized, be more transparent, be more consistent in moral teaching, and focus on the “critical” need to re-engage youth and young adults in […]
Theologian: Laity has grown numb in Church, must know voice is important
BARCELONA, Spain – According to one of the theologians advising the Vatican office organizing the ongoing Synod of Bishop the laity has grown numb after centuries of simply saying “amen.” For many lay members of the Catholic Church, Spanish theologian Cristina Inoges Sanz, the synodal process that began last October and is scheduled to last […]