India’s Syro-Malabar Church appears to be on verge of split over liturgy row
The Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church appears on the brink of a split with dissident Catholics in a southern Indian archdiocese refusing to celebrate a synod-approved Mass Aug. 20 in open defiance of a pontifical delegate. A Vatican delegate appointed to settle the decades-old liturgy dispute has returned to Rome amid his disciplinary actions worsening the situation. […]
Food waste is intolerable, Vatican prelate tells FAO (Vatican News)
Speaking at the Latin American headquarters of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia said that wasting food is “intolerable, unbearable, execrable, a source of immense shame.” Archbishop Paglia, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said: “Discarding food means discarding people.” Noting that an estimated 47 million people in Latin […]
Byzantine Catholic bishop questions Western idea of synodality (CNA)
A Byzantine Catholic bishop has expressed concerns about the Synod on Synodality, saying that preparations for the meeting do not reflect the understanding of synodal government that has long prevailed in the Eastern churches. Bishop Manuel Nin, the exarch of the Greek Catholic Church, pointed to the inclusion of lay people as voting members of […]
Rohingya refugees appeal for humanitarian aid and respect for their dignity
Rohingya people residing in the world’s biggest refugee camp, Kutupalong, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, gather on 25 August 2023 to mark the six-year anniversary of their mass exodus. Read all
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.Read More
Daily Rome Shot 773
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Evening in America
Graduating from high school in the late 1980’s, I was a prototypical Reagan Republican. Like any good Reaganite, I claimed a certain distrust of government, yet at the same time I strongly supported all the enforcement arms of that same government—the military, the police, and the judicial system. I trusted that, in America at least, […]
Cardinal Schönborn spreads false climate narrative blaming wildfires on global warming
Contrary to Schönborn’s statement and the claims of many climate alarmists, high temperatures alone do not cause forest fires.
A retired Wyoming bishop cleared by Vatican of sexual abuse despite local findings has died at 91
A former U.S. bishop cleared by the Vatican of multiple allegations he sexually abused minors and teenagers, after a review board under his diocese in Wyoming found that allegations against him were credible, has died.
Civil case over Cardinal Pell abuse allegations allowed to proceed against church in Australia
An Australian court on August 25 allowed a civil case to proceed against a Catholic archdiocese involving child sex abuse allegations against late Cardinal George Pell.