Jeanie Hannaman

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - After Catholic World News reported that astonishing little essay entitled “DEI Means God” had appeared on the web site of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Chieko Noguchi, the USCCB director of public affairs, told The Pillar: “It was mistakenly posted to the website, and has been taken down.”... That is reassuring, I suppose—although I wonder how something could appear by mistake on a site representing the bishops of the United States... But in an important sense the brief appearance of the essay (which is now hard— but not impossible—to find online) is only the second of two mistakes. The first and more serious mistake was made by Bishop Campbell when he wrote this puerile piece. ....

By Salvatore Cernuzio, Vatican News - In a note published on its 60th anniversary, Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, traces the evolution of the Synod of Bishops and looks ahead to the future... Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, has invited the Church to “make every effort to ensure that the third phase of the synodal process constitutes a further step forward in the experience and understanding of synodality”.... The encouragement comes in a note published for the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Vatican body.