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Bishops say reducing refugee numbers ‘wholly counter to our values’

September 15, 2019

As the Trump administration reportedly considers further cuts to U.S. refugee admissions, the leader of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee has stated his opposition to any such plan. Any “further reductions in the number of refugees” accepted into the U.S. “would be wholly counter to our values as a nation of immigrants,” Bishop Joe Vasquez

Bishop Bransfield’s life of luxury

September 13, 2019

New details have emerged about the lavish lifestyle enjoyed by disgraced Bishop Michael Bransfield. Bransfield spent nearly one million dollars on private jets and over $660,000 on airfare and hotels during his 13 years as bishop of his former diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. A new investigation by the Washington Post, published on September 12, reported that

Priests ‘cannot comply’ with laws that break seal of confession, Tasmania’s archbishop says

September 13, 2019

The leader of Tasmania’s Catholic Church said priests in his archdiocese will not comply with a law that would require them to break the seal of confession to report suspected child abuse. The law, passed earlier this week, makes religious ministers mandatory reporters of child sexual abuse, and requires Tasmanians with knowledge of abuse to

Dutch doctor cleared in case of euthanasia without final consent

September 12, 2019

A Netherlands court acquitted a doctor involved in a controversial euthanasia case who had been accused of breaching the consent requirements for ending a woman’s life. A district court in The Hague issued a decision on Wednesday. Judge Mariette Renckens said the now-retired doctor – whose name was not given – did not need a

Full text: Pope Francis’s in-flight press conference from Madagascar

September 11, 2019

Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office: Good morning, Holy Father. In these days we have been able to meet many people from these African lands of the Indian Ocean. They are a population with many young people, many children and babies. People full of enthusiasm and hope. People full of enthusiasm and

Perfection is found in small acts of charity, Pope Francis tells contemplative nuns

September 09, 2019

The path to holiness is made up of small, daily acts of obedience and love, Pope Francis told the contemplative nuns of Madagascar in impromptu remarks on Saturday. “I know that all of you cloistered nuns have come to be close to the Lord, to seek the way of perfection. But the way to perfection

Bring ‘new life’ to the Church in Mauritius, Pope Francis tells Catholics

September 09, 2019

At Mass on the island nation of Mauritius Monday, Pope Francis urged Catholics to avoid worldly securities, to increase their zeal for evangelization, and to invite the young to be an active part of the Church. “Through his missionary outreach and his love, Father Laval gave to the Mauritian Church a new youth, a new

Paglia responds to controversy at JPII Institute

September 05, 2019

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, grand chancellor of Rome’s Pontifical Institute John Paul II and president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has responded to controversy over a plan to restructure the school’s faculty and curriculum. “We will be able to address and overcome the concerns and the hesitancies that have greeted the renewed structure of the

Burke and Brandmüller: Amazon synod challenges deposit of faith

September 05, 2019

Two cardinals have sent letters to fellow members of the College of Cardinals, raising concerns about the working document for an upcoming synod of bishops on the pan-Amazonian region. “Some points of the synod’s Instrumentum laboris seem not only in dissonance with respect to the authentic teaching of the Church, but even contrary to it,”

‘This could be the end for me,’ Buffalo bishop says in taped conversation

September 04, 2019

Recordings of private conversations appear to show that Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo believed sexual harassment accusations made against a diocesan priest months before the diocese removed the priest from ministry. The contents of recordings of conversations between Bishop Malone and Fr Ryszard Biernat, his secretary and diocesan vice chancellor, were reported on Wednesday by WKBW

In first interview since his downfall, McCarrick maintains innocence

September 03, 2019

In an interview last month with Slate staff writer Ruth Graham, Theodore McCarrick said he doesn’t believe he committed the acts of which he has been accused. McCarrick, 89, has been in public disgrace since June 2018, when credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor were made known. He was dismissed from the clerical

After latest in ‘epidemic’ of mass shootings, bishops again call for prayer and action

September 01, 2019

Several U.S. bishops offered prayers Saturday evening after a gunman killed at least 5 people and injured more than 20 in a Texas shooting spree that included the hijacking of a mail truck and the shooting of several police officers. “May the Spirit of Peace envelop those families mourning the loss of their loved ones

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