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Buffalo parish group petitions Vatican to investigate Bishop Michael Fisher
2+ hour, 59+ min ago (517+ words) Save Our Buffalo Churches, a parish preservation group in the Diocese of Buffalo, has petitioned the Vatican to investigate the leadership of Bishop Michael Fisher. The campaign group has announced that it is sending a petition to the Holy See…...
In full: unpublished letter reveals Benedict XVI’s final reflections on prayer and the future of faith
12+ hour, 34+ min ago (273+ words) An unpublished letter by Pope Benedict XVI, written little more than a year before his death, has been released in a new Italian book, offering an insight into the late pontiff's theology and view of the future of the Faith…...
Cardinal Brandmüller calls for liturgical ‘truce’ and urges Catholics to ‘lay down your weapons’
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (447+ words) Cardinal Walter Brandm'ller, the 97-year-old German church historian and former president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, has issued an appeal for peace in the liturgical disputes, urging all sides to "lay down your weapons. Writing in Diakonos on…...
Vatican confirms papal trips for this year
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (456+ words) The Vatican has announced that Pope Leo XIV will undertake a series of apostolic journeys this spring and early summer, visiting Monaco, four African nations and Spain. In a statement released on February 25, the director of the Holy See Press…...
Excommunicated Spanish nuns return to the Church
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (416+ words) Two excommunicated nuns in northern Spain have been reconciled with the Church. The religious were excommunicated after their community, the Poor Clare Sisters of Belorado, declared their separation from the post-Vatican II Catholic Church and their allegiance to sedevacantist Bishop…...
Relics of St Francis of Assisi available for public veneration for the first time in 800 years
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (314+ words) For the first time in 800 years, the mortal remains of St Francis of Assisi have been placed on extended public display, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Assisi for a month-long period of veneration marking the eighth centenary of…...
What Dante teaches us about sin, desire and redemption
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (207+ words) What Dante teaches us about sin, desire and redemption'The Catholic Herald At its heart, the Commedia is a description of the threefold spiritual cycle that every Christian is called to go through. Both on a daily basis and in our…...
Back to 1988? SSPX confirms July consecrations
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1174+ words) The Society of St Pius X has published a communiqu" and the full text of a letter from its Superior General rejecting a proposal from the Holy See for renewed doctrinal talks under the proposed conditions and declining to suspend…...
Bishop Eleganti warns SSPX consecrations without papal mandate would be ‘schismatic act’
2+ week, 1+ day ago (396+ words) Bishop Marian Eleganti has said that any episcopal consecrations carried out by the Society of St Pius X without a papal mandate would constitute "a schismatic act, insisting that visible and canonical unity with the Pope is inseparable from being…...
Signs of dialogue in a pivotal week for the Vatican
2+ week, 2+ day ago (491+ words) Dialogue will continue, but only upon receipt of a sign of good faith: such was the message from Leo XIV's Vatican this week in the latest update of the case which has dominated the minds of the Vatican press corps....