Jeanie Hannaman

By Michael Haynes, LifeSite News, (Complicit Clergy) - Advocacy group Human Rights Watch has called on Pope Leo XIV to conduct an urgent review into the Vatican’s secretive deal with Communist China... In a public statement issued following the May 8 election of Pope Leo XIV, Human Rights Watch urged the American pontiff to address one of the more controversial issues left by his predecessor – namely the Sino-Vatican deal on the appointment of bishops in China... “Chinese Catholics worshiping in underground churches are among the ‘ordinary people’ on whom Pope Leo has said the church should focus its attention” ....

By Darrick Taylor, Crisis Magazine - A reporter recently asked U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a practicing Catholic, how he reconciled the teachings of the Catholic Church with the Trump administration’s aggressive stance against illegal and mass migration. Rubio gave an interesting answer about the nature of mass migration, but he also insisted that “the pope is not a political figure.” This is the kind of answer that Catholic politicians who take the Faith seriously are wont to make, and I understand why Rubio and other Catholics in the administration, such as J.D. Vance, use it from time to time. There is just one problem with it: it is not true.