1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (731+ words) Cardinal Robert W. Mc Elroy of Washington said his decision to remove a high-profile priest as an archdiocesan exorcist was driven by the public way he exercised his ministry, not by his specific beliefs about UFOs. Following comments on social media…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (558+ words) Ask Fr John Greig what the hardest part of being a priest has been, and he won't give you an answer. He simply doesn't accept the premise. "Nothing's hard about it," he says. "It's just a beautiful thing. That's the…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (844+ words) French Catholics attached to the traditional Latin Mass but loyal to Rome are expressing deep sadness after the Society of St Pius X consecrated four bishops without papal approval, prompting the Vatican to declare the group in schism and excommunicate…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (654+ words) There is a wall in the Liverpool home of Rene and Zenaida Evangelista featuring a collection that their grandson knows by heart. Crucifixes gathered from all over the world hang there, and every night the couple stand before it to…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (183+ words) Bishop Juan Abelardo Mata was apprehended 29 June, one day after celebrating Mass in Estel" and asking the faithful to pray for the persecuted church. Nicaragua's interior ministry claimed in a 4 July statement the 80-year-old bishop "has returned to his home,…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (715+ words) If you've known me for a very long time, you will know that in my youth I spent time in and around the Society of St Pius X (SSPX). In the early 1990s in Perth, I attended a privately-owned SSPX-leaning chapel…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1700+ words) Yet I found myself leaving each meeting with something far more valuable than a planning document. Each encounter became, in its own way, a lesson in the mystery of the church." I have long known that Sydney is home to…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (486+ words) By Paulina Guzik and Junno Arocho Esteves, OSV News When the papal coat of arms was hung at the balcony of the papal Castel Gandolfo residence 5 July, locals knew that their main summer protagonist was on the way. On Sunday…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (151+ words) People'across Sydney and beyond can now listen to Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP's preaching and teaching wherever they are with the launch of the'Archbishop Anthony Fisher'OP'Podcast." A Dominican friar, moral theologian and former lawyer, Archbishop Fisher is recognised as one of…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (431+ words) On 30 June, at the Catholic Institute of Sydney, a full house turned out for the latest instalment of the Didask'faithformation short course series, as Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP led a rich and often surprising exploration of the Eucharist." Now in…...