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Secular Media Stepping up to Expose the Corrupt Bishops
A new "summer of shame" continues to pile on for corrupt Catholic organizations like the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Charities USA. Secular media organizations are again exposing the U.S. bishops and their non-governmental organizations for advancing both anti-Catholic and anti-America agendas. Read more
No Retreat: ‘GoPublic4Life’ in Illinois
Pro-lifers in Democrat-run Illinois are taking their strategy up a notch, praying en masse outside of as many abortuaries as they can on Aug. 26. Vision2020, an Illinois pro-life community, is organizing the GoPublic4Life event, designed to unite pro-lifers across the entire state in prayer this Saturday morning from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Participants at various locations will simultaneously spend 90 minutes in prayer, appealing to God for the end of abortion and for a spiritual revival in Illinois. Read more
Catholics and House GOP Question Bishops’ Cash Bonanza From Immigrant Smuggling
With no projected end to the chaos of illegal immigration at the Mexican border, some congressional Republicans have decided to confront the religious agencies aggravating the problem — including Catholic Charities, which plays a pivotal role in human smuggling, as The Stream reported. Even conservative Catholics are organizing to oppose their bishops' support of open borders. The Deposit of Faith Coalition held a press conference July 20 in Washington, D.C., to demand that Congress stop funding the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Read more
Pope Picks Brothel-Scandal Judge for Vatican Body
A pro-abortion and pro-LGBT Argentinian former supreme court judge who was investigated for renting out his apartments as a brothel has been appointed by Pope Francis to a Vatican entity operating within the framework of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences. Justice Raúl Eugenio Zaffaroni, handpicked by the pontiff to serve on the newly created body dealing with social rights and colonialism, sparked further outrage after he exempted a pedophile from prison for abusing an eight-year-old girl. Read more
Bp. Howard Hubbard Dies at 84
A scandal-plagued U.S. prelate has passed away, one day after being hospitalized for a stroke. Retired Albany bishop Howard Hubbard died today at age 84. This comes just weeks after news broke that Hubbard civilly married a woman. Read more
Controversial Facility for Priests Being Sold
A building that once housed priests — including some accused of abuse — is on the market for $28 million. Read more
Court Upholds Lookback Window for Abuse Victims
On Thursday, the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the state's 2021 law (House Bill 492), which provided victims with a three-year "lookback window" to take legal action on cases that passed the previous statute of limitations. Read more
Syro-Malabar Priests Defy Excommunication Threat
"Any disobedience to this order will be considered voluntary, personal and culpable disobedience to the Holy Father," papal delegate Abp. Cyril Vasil warned priests of the Syro-Malabar Church's Ernakulam-Angamaly archeparchy in a letter published Thursday. Vasil said that defiance of the Vatican's diktat to implement the liturgical formula for the Holy Qurbana (Holy Mass) "will be considered a serious delict against the Holy Father with subsequent canonical penal sanctions." Read more
New Diocesan Policy Protecting Children in Catholic Schools
On Tuesday, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the diocese of Worcester released new guidelines called "Catholic Education and the Human Person: Diocesan Policy for Schools Regarding Sexuality and Sexual Identity." Read more
Oz Priest Shuffled to 16 Parishes Abused 72 Children
Magistrate Hugh Radford told Fr. Gerald Ridsdale that the priest would "probably die in custody" after reading out the serial abuser's extended sentence at Ballarat Magistrates' Court on the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The verdict marks Ridsdale's 193rd conviction for child abuse and follows a guilty plea by the priest in June to the latest charge of indecent assault against a 13-year-old boy while the abuser worked at a Catholic school in Horsham in 1987. Read more
Jesus Restores Faith With Trip Down the Bayou
In Cajun country, Jesus doesn't just walk along the sea, He also processes down the bayou. Louisiana Catholics participated in the ninth annual Fête-Dieu du Teche on Tuesday, a Eucharistic boat procession along the Bayou Teche. Read more
Runaway Trad Priest Secretly Weds 18-Year-Old Lover
A traditionalist priest who was fired by his diocese after absconding to Europe with a high school student has married the 18-year-old girl he eloped with, letters obtained by police have revealed. "Now we are in love, and we are married," Fr. Alex Crow, a 30-year-old priest who trained to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass, wrote in a Valentine's Day love letter to the McGill-Toolen Catholic High School graduate. "I love you, and I thank Jesus for you every day." Read more
Oz Senator Urges Probe into Priests’ Hidden Children
An Australian senator is calling for a national inquiry into the children of Catholic priests after some priests' children reported that authorities were destroying or concealing records to prevent the offspring of clergy from tracking down their fathers. "There clearly needs to be an inquiry which has the power to compel the truth out of the Church," Sen. David Shoebridge from New South Wales told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Saturday. Read more
Historic Hawaiian Church Survives Fire
A historic church in Hawaii has survived the horrific fires that have devastated the surrounding town on the island of Maui, despite initial reports to the contrary. Video taken by some residents who were allowed to return to the town gave proof that Maria Lanakila Catholic Church was still standing and unscathed amid the smoldering rubble of the town of Lahaina. The parish of Maria Lanakila, in English meaning Our Lady of Victory, was founded in 1846 by priests of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Mary and Jesus who arrived on the island. Read more
Ohio’s Dangerous and Deceptive ‘Abortion’ Initiative
In just over 60 days, Ohioans will vote on a constitutional amendment that, if accepted, will radically transform their state into a free-for-all death trap for unborn babies. Ohio voters will cast a ballot — yes or no — on the amendment, titled "The Right to Reproductive Freedom With Protections for Health and Safety," on Nov. 7. Among other leftist agendas, it will allow late-term abortions, even up until birth, and leave wide open who can legally perform them. Read more
Largest Catholic Health Network Is Partnered With Abortion Provider
In June, the Lepanto Institute published a 64-page report that cataloged the intrinsically evil activities of the largest Catholic health Network in the United States. The report proved that CommonSpirit Health was responsible for the performance of sex-change operations, providing hormone-based transgender therapies, providing puberty blockers to children under the auspices of so-called "gender-affirming care," financially subsidizing the same through its employee benefits packages, financially subsidizing medical institutions performing these procedures and therapies, providing all forms of modern contraception (including abortifacients) to patients, and even performing (at least in one case) elective abortions and surgical sterilizations. Read more
Proof That One Man Can Make a World of Difference
In south Louisiana, the world changed on Wednesday, Aug. 2, with the tragic death of Fr. Mark Beard. Today, my friend was laid to rest in Amite, Louisiana, and it's still impossible to comprehend his departure into eternal life. A good friend of both Fr. Mark and I told others, "I think I know the sadness and confusion that the Apostles felt when Jesus died and before he was resurrected." Read more
LGBTQ Ideology’s Platform at Yale’s Catholic Chapel
The Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale University publishes pro-LGBTQ reflections but refuses to publish opposing Catholic ones. Saint Thomas More (STM) at Yale recently published a pro-LGBTQ reflection through its electronic newsletter channel called Flocknote. The email, titled "The Work of Pride," was sent as a standalone message to everybody on the list. Read more
