Dissenting Priests in Syro-Malabar Church Protest Pope Francis’ Christmas Deadline
Achayan via Wikimedia A liturgy at St. Mary’s Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church, Arakuzha, India. After several eparchies failed to abide by the mandate, the Pope issued an ultimatum in a Dec. 7 video message calling on the Church to adopt the ad orientem liturgy approved by the synod by Dec. 25.
Bishops Around the World Are Divided Over Vatican’s Same-Sex Blessing Declaration
IVASHstudio A priest blesses a newlywed couple. Numerous bishops around the world have accepted the declaration from the Vatican but have cautioned against misrepresenting the guidelines in a way that would suggest that the Church condones homosexual behavior.
Pope Francis Urges Humanitarian Response to Darien Migration Tragedy
Matt Gush A father and son stand in front of the USA Mexico border wall at Tijuana. As reported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), citing figures from Migraciones Panamá, up to the first week of December, 500,000 people have crossed this jungle in 2023.
Ghostly Gifts
Ghostly Gifts By Regina Munch December 18, 2023 As a child, I was always perplexed by a line in Andy Williams’s holiday song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” What lunatic would tell “scary ghost stories” at Christmas? Why would someone sweep away the warmth of the holidays with the chill of a […]
Hundreds of UK priests reject same-sex blessings as ‘inadmissible’
The British Confraternity of Catholic Clergy stated that its text had been issued as a response to ‘widespread confusion over Catholic doctrine on same-sex unions and sexual behaviour outside of marriage.’Read More
Pope Francis to Vatican officials: Ideology, rigidity prevents church from moving forward
Pope Francis on Dec. 21 cautioned top Vatican officials against becoming rigid and obsessing over ideology, saying that such habits can prevent the Catholic Church from growing.
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What the Catholic Church really says about homosexuality
The new Vatican document authorizing the blessing of “couples in irregular situations”, including homosexuals, does not change Church doctrine on same-sex relationships, but it does signal a certain evolution
LA Catholic leaders participate in interfaith burial service for unclaimed dead
Nearly 2,000 unclaimed bodies were buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles on Dec. 14 as part of an interfaith ceremony put on by the LA County Board of Supervisors. Auxiliary Bishop Brian Nunes and Father Chris Ponnet, pastor at St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care, were among 11 religious leaders — among them a […]
‘Beware of reading too much too quickly’ into same-sex blessings document, say global bishops
(OSV News) — While several Western European bishops praised the Dec. 18 declaration of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on blessing same-sex couples as “a major breakthrough in pastoral care,” reactions elsewhere have been mixed, with African bishops offering explainers for “confused” faithful or banning same-sex blessings. And Ukraine’s Catholic bishops […]