Jeanie Hannaman
May 28, 2026
By Kath.net - The decrees of the Second Vatican Council were not accepted by all Catholics. Some were content with critical statements, but Bishop Marcel Lefebvre, who also served as Archbishop of Dakar, rejected even key reforms initiated by the Council, including the declaration Nostra aetate – the declaration that regulates the new relationship between the Church and the Jews. Furthermore, he rejected the 1965 liturgical reforms as well as the ecumenical movement. His strict rejection met with fierce resistance within the Church. To institutionalize his conservative stance, he founded the Society of St. Pius X in 1970.
May 28, 2026
By Elise Winland, Zeale News - “I’ve talked with hundreds of detransitioners across America. We’re all heartened by the news out of Texas,” (Chloe Cole — a detransitioner and activist who says she was prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones before undergoing a double mastectomy at age 15) wrote. “But we’re angry, too. It should have never taken this long to create a clinic dedicated to some of America’s most vulnerable young patients. It’s a medical and moral crime that any child was subjected to a sex change in the first place — and that many are still being pushed down this painful road.”
May 28, 2026
By Brittany Campbell, LiveNews - Canada made a dark choice in 2016... Instead of investing in more care, support, and hope for people who are suffering, the Canadian government legalized assisted suicide through a program called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). From the beginning, it was presented as a “last resort” for people with serious illnesses — treating death as the answer to suffering instead of offering true compassion, care, and support. ...
May 28, 2026
By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - This encyclical declares its subject to be “On Safeguarding the Dignity of the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.” And while this encyclical certainly deals with AI, the heart of the document is much more a positive defense of human dignity than it is a thoroughgoing or definitive critique of AI... Which brings us to the next observation about this encyclical: Magnifica humanitas is, in a way, as much an encyclical about Catholic Social Teaching as it is a contribution to that corpus of teaching. ....
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