2+ hour, 51+ min ago  (469+ words) Four new bishops from a breakaway Catholic group dedicated to the old Latin mass were ordained in southwestern Switzerland on Wednesday, in defiance of an appeal by Pope Leo XIV. Thousands "turned out to watch the ordination of the bishops from…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (417+ words) Pope Leo on Monday issued the clearest apology yet from a pontiff for the Catholic Church's "role in slavery, acknowledging both its delay in condemning the practice and its historic involvement in legitimising it. In a key passage of his…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (410+ words) The Vatican on Wednesday urged a breakaway Catholic group dedicated to the old Latin Mass to cancel plans to ordain new "bishops without consent from Pope Leo, warning the action would incur excommunication from the 1. 4-billion-member Church. In the first…...