A letter signed by 152 Brazilian Catholic bishops harshly criticizing President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration and his unsuccessful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has been spurring intense controversy among the country’s Catholics since its release in late July....
Since the election upon Benedict’s retirement of Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, Leatherby has shunned the new pontiff and continued to only refer to Benedict as the church’s true leader in mass. After several warnings, he was charged with schism, defrocked and...
Detroit archdiocese ordained a Catholic priest for a second time on Aug. 17 after learning that his infant baptism was void, making his ordination invalid. Father Matthew Hood, ordained in 2017, has been working in the diocese for the past three years, just like any...
A potential coronavirus vaccine should be made available to all, Pope Francis said at the general audience Aug. 19. “It would be sad if, for the vaccine for COVID-19, priority were to be given to the richest! It would be sad if this vaccine were to become the property...
The Catholic Church is selling “the Eucharist” and people short and is making a mistake by turning Mass into a YouTube experience, according to a UK theologian. Thomas O’Loughlin, emeritus professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham and Director...
