Day 201: Keys to the Kingdom (2023)
Fr. Mike focuses on Isaiah 22 today and explains how the role of the pope in the Catholic Church goes all the way back to this important chapter in Isaiah. We learn that Jesus himself instituted the papacy by making Peter his ‘al-habbayit, the one over the household who holds the keys to the kingdom […]
New Ways Ministry welcomes appointment of Cardinals-designate Fernández, Rys (CWN)
New Ways Ministry, long associated with dissent from Catholic teaching on the immorality of homosexual acts, welcomed Pope Francis’s decision to elevate Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández and Archbishop Grzegorz Ryś to the College of Cardinals.
‘I feel I have arrived home’: former Anglican bishop discusses his journey to the Catholic Church (National Catholic Register)
Richard Pain, 66, was the Anglican bishop of Monmouth (Wales) from 2013 to 2019, when he retired because of illness. He is the 11th former Anglican bishop to be received into the Catholic Church since 2011.
House subcommittee chairman: State Department is giving religious freedom violators ‘a pass’ (CNA)
The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations hosted a hearing on July 18 devoted to “The Dire State of Religious Freedom Around the World.” “Billions of people around the world — half of the world’s population — are not able to practice their faith freely,” said Rep. Chris […]
Pass the Afghan Adjustment Act, USCCB urges (USCCB)
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked the faithful to encourage members of Congress to support the Afghan Adjustment Act. The bill would allow Afghan refugees who fled their nation during the Taliban offensive to achieve legal permanent resident status in the US. The act’s “passage is a moral imperative for a country […]
Vatican newspaper: Time is running out to counter global climate emergency (L’Osservatore Romano (Italian))
With the headline “CLIMA: Emergenza globale” [CLIMATE: Global Emergency], the Vatican newspaper devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its July 19 edition to a UN report that referred to heatwaves as the “new normal.” Gaetano Vallini, a journalist at L’Osservatore Romano, wrote, “Are we really foolish enough to want to test what levels we […]
Bishops condemn brutality against ‘innocent Kenyans,’ urge police to target criminals (ACI Africa)
Amid anti-government protests, the bishops of Kenya condemned police brutality and called for talks between the nation’s president and opposition leaders. The East African nation of 53.9 million (map) is 82% Christian (21% Catholic), 8% Muslim, and 8% ethnic religionist. Pope Francis made an apostolic journey there in 2015.
Abuse scandal cost US dioceses, religious orders over $200M in 2021-22 (USCCB)
According to the new annual report released by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection, there were 2,704 new abuse allegations against Catholic clergy lodged between mid-2021 and mid-2022. These allegations involved 1,998 alleged victims. 248 allegations against diocesan clerics, and 149 allegations against religious-order clerics, have already been […]
The Vatican Is Now Dancing Around The Truth About Their Intentions For The Synod
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An agenda for the Synod on Synodality
Back when the Synod on Synodality was only an item on Pope Francis’ to-do list, I wrote a column saying conservative Catholics like myself should get on board the pre-synodal bandwagon instead of standing on the sidelines making negative comments. Otherwise, I said, the Synod on Synodality could fall into liberal hands. With the first […]