The President of the Austrian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has declared that priests may not refuse to bless gay couples, just two days after the Vatican permitted the practice for the first time.
Pro-LGBT Catholics like Jesuit Father James Martin have lauded the Vatican’s allowance of blessings for gay couples as “a huge step forward.”
The Vatican has reversed its position banning the blessing of homosexual couples, asserting that a blessing can now be “offered to all without requiring anything.”
The government of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were emphatic Monday in rejecting a claim by Pope Francis that Israeli forces were responsible for the deaths of two civilians near a church in Gaza.
Pope Francis used his strongest language to date in condemning ongoing Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, calling them acts of “terrorism.”
Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, the former number three man in the Vatican, has been found guilty of three counts of embezzlement by a Vatican tribunal and sentenced to five and a half years of prison.
Emmanuel Macron is facing outrage over plans to replace historic stained glass windows with modern verisions in the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
Pope Francis said Monday that immigrants are helping to replace Italy’s falling population and urged Italians to welcome them as their own children.
The Vatican’s former doctrinal czar Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller warned that globalists are weaponizing mass migration to destroy the national identity of countries.
Wray said during an exchange with Hawley that employees involved in the creation of the memo have been “admonished,” but not fired.
Pope Francis has signed an interfaith statement asserting that humanity faces a “global climate crisis” that demands phasing out fossil fuels.
The creators of the Catholic meditation and prayer app Hallow defended their partnership with pro-abortion actor Liam Neeson after backlash.
Pope Francis asserted Sunday that the global climate crisis is “a religious problem” whose roots lie in humanity’s “presumption of self-sufficiency.”
Pope Francis sent a message Saturday to the COP28 U.N. climate summit decrying the “unbridled exploitation” of the environment by first world nations.
Pope Francis said he intends to evict conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke from his subsidized Vatican apartment and strip him of his monthly salary, calling the prelate “my enemy.”
Pope Francis asserted Sunday that global warming is contrary to God’s plan and presents a significant risk to all “life on earth.”
Pope Francis has likened Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine to Joseph Stalin’s 1930s Holodomor, when the Soviet leader engineered a man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians.
Pope Francis issued another appeal for peace in the Holy Land Wednesday, insisting that the Palestinian people and the people of Israel are “two fraternal peoples.”
U.S. Bishops issued their updated Catholic voting guide, in which they insist abortion is the “pre-eminent priority” for Catholic voters.
Beijing-appointed Bishop Joseph Shen Bin of Shanghai has declared that adopting socialist core values is “a fundamental requirement for the survival and development of the Catholic Church in China.”
Pope Francis has taken the unusual step of removing the bishop of Tyler, Texas, a known conservative who has been critical of the pope.
ROME — The Vatican’s doctrinal office (DDF) declared this week that transsexuals and “homoaffective” persons can be baptized and serve as godparents provided certain conditions are met.
Critics have accused Pope Francis of snubbing a group of European rabbis amidst of a resurgence of anti-Semitism.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi telephoned Pope Francis Sunday afternoon and thanked the pontiff for his repeated calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
ROME — The Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis will fly out to Dubai in early December to attend the U.N.’s COP28 climate summit.
The United States bishops have distanced themselves from an embarrassing letter by Pope Francis on the “climate crisis,” preferring to invest their apostolic witness in real issues of concern.
The Vatican’s much-hyped “synod on synodality” ended up punting on the issue of LGBT Catholics, much to the chagrin of Jesuit Father James Martin.
Pope Francis has reached out to the victims and families of the October 25 mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, promising prayers and spiritual closeness.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with Pope Francis Thursday, during which he condemned the “massacre” wrought by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the Hamas terror attack on October 7.
Pope Francis has once again shot down the progressive notion of women becoming Catholic priests or deacons.
Pope Francis recently wrote to notorious LGBT activist Stan “JR” Zerkowski to thank him for his “ministry” with gays, Catholic News Agency reported Wednesday.
A comprehensive statistical report on Catholicism this week reveals growth where the Church is vibrantly orthodox and decline where it has fallen into worldly liberalism.
U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters Monday that he and Pope Francis are “on the same page” regarding the crisis in Gaza.
Pope Francis telephoned U.S. President Joe Biden Sunday to discuss the need to identify “paths to peace” in the Middle East and elsewhere, the Vatican press office revealed Monday.
The Vatican lamented that “the military use of outer space remains relatively uncontrolled” while calling for disarmament.
Pope Francis insisted Thursday that “safer routes” and expanded “channels” must be established for migrants wishing to leave their countries in search of a better life.
Pope Francis received in private audience Tuesday Sister Jeannine Gramick, cofounder of the pro-LGBT group New Ways Ministry, which has been denied the title “Catholic” by Church authorities.
A failure to recognize the biological basis of gender is an offense to both reason and science, two California bishops assert in a pastoral letter.
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Patriarch of Jerusalem, has offered to exchange himself for the Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas.
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has sharply criticized the Vatican’s lukewarm words on the October 7 Hamas terror attack in Gaza, calling for an “unequivocal condemnation” of the lethal aggression.
