Cherishing the sanctity of life can help overcome our culture’s crisis of meaning
Life, liberty, property, and happiness under God’s merciful protection – there is nothing so resilient or powerful as those who believe. There is nothing so menacing to the ‘banality of evil’ as those who cherish and celebrate life.
Pope’s envoy prods Ukraine, insisting ‘dialogue is not a betrayal’
ROME – In what could be perceived as a line aimed at Ukrainian authorities, who have insisted that any plan to end their war with Russia be according to their terms, Pope Francis’s peace envoy has stressed that willingness to dialogue is not an act of betrayal. Speaking at the annual “Meeting” in Rimini, Italy’s […]
Burke claims Pope’s synod will foster ‘confusion, error and division’
ROME – In the foreword to a new booklet by a conservative group criticizing Pope Francis’s looming Synod of Bishops on Synodality, American Cardinal Raymond Burke has slammed the process surrounding the synod, calling it deeply harmful and potentially schismatic. Burke, a hero to the traditionalist wing of the Catholic Church, has been a frequent […]
Cameroon bishops condemn ‘weaponization’ of ethnic differences
YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – Catholic bishops in the African nation of Cameroon, which has been gripped by civil conflict since 2016, have warned that ethnic differences are being “manipulated” and “weaponized” to foment division. In an August 22 statement from the Bamenda Provincial Episcopal Conference, which brings together the bishops of the largely English-speaking northwestern region […]
Court rules that names in Baltimore abuse report should be revealed
NEW YORK – With the need for transparency cited as the predominant factor, a Baltimore court has ruled that almost all redacted names in a Maryland Attorney General’s report on child sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore can be revealed. The decision concludes a long-running legal battle over the release of the redacted names, […]
A message from Charley Collins, and an appeal from Crux
[Editor’s Note: On May 8, Crux’s managing editor Charles Collins suffered a devastating stroke and was rushed to the hospital in the UK, where he, his wife Claire and their two boys live. He’s been fighting for his life through a series of surgeries and other crises, but now he’s staging a slow but steady […]
South Carolina Catholics laud court ruling upholding ‘heartbeat’ abortion law
NEW YORK – After the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a law that restricts most abortions once a heartbeat can be detected – about six weeks into a pregnancy – the state’s Catholic conference said it’s grateful for the decision, and vows to continue advocacy for mothers and their children. “We are grateful that our […]
Syro-Malabar priest accuses papal envoy of acting like ‘inquisitor of the Middle Ages’
MUMBAI – Two days after priests and laity in the Syro-Malabar Church defied the deadline imposed by a papal delegate to adopt a new mode of celebrating Mass or face canonical punishment, including excommunication, a leading priest in the church has written the Vatican to accuse that delegate of acting like “an erstwhile inquisitor of […]
Rebel on behalf of refugees dismissed from the priesthood in Padua
ROME – A high-profile cleric in the Italian city of Padua, known equally for his activity on behalf of migrants and the homeless and for his long-running battles with authorities in his own diocese, has been dismissed from the priesthood at his own request. The 53-year-old Favarin, who had been suspended from the priesthood last […]
Jesuits decry ‘crimes against humanity’ after expulsion from Nicaragua
ROME – A week after Nicaragua’s government confiscated a prestigious Jesuit-run university, it has officially expelled the Society of Jesus from the country entirely and ruled that all of the order’s property and assets be seized. Nicaragua’s government declared Pope Francis’s Jesuit order illegal on Wednesday and ordered that all of its property and assets […]