Catholic Church

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - he Pontifical Academy for Life’s controversial member Mariana Mazzucato (said) she found it “very sad that we go backwards instead of forwards” when asked about her membership of the academy in conjunction with her atheistic beliefs and pro-abortion views... Nominated by Pope Francis as an “ordinary academic” of the PAV in October 2022, Mazzucato’s presence sparked outrage amongst Catholics, who strongly criticized the move as yet more evidence of the PAV’s having “abandoned its purpose.”

By John Duggan, First Things - Ireland is holding a referendum on March 8—International Women's Day—which, if the governing parties have their way, will mean the word “mother” is removed from Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Irish Constitution... Article 41.2.2 currently says that the State shall “endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.”

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews - The cathedral in the Diocese of Austin, Texas will discontinue its Traditional Latin Mass as of March 19, reportedly due to a decision “directly from the Vatican.”... Theologian Dr. Peter Kwasniewski shared Sunday evening on social media that, according to an “eyewitness,” it was announced at the end of Mass at the St. Mary Cathedral on February 11 that the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) will be canceled there as of March 19. Attendance at these Masses numbers from 500 to 600 people each week... Kwasniewski continued, “The war of Rome against the Roman Rite is driven by false ideology and has no legality whatsoever. It’s not a ‘just war.’ Quite the contrary: it is a war of aggression.”

By Kathy Schiffer, Catholic World Report - Alejandro Monteverde, the award-winning director of Sound of Freedom and Bella, had never heard of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini when he was offered the script for a biographical film about her ministry in the slums of New York... (after reading the script).. Monteverde was inspired, though, after learning about the life of Francesca Cabrini, a poor Italian immigrant nun who fought to overcome disease and poverty in the Five Points district of New York City... “I was shocked.. that I’d never learned anything about her. Her life was cinematic!”