Catholic Church

July 30, 2021

Ex-Cardinal McCarrick to Appear in Criminal Court for Sexually Assaulting Teenage Boy

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - Ex-cardinal and defrocked priest Theodore McCarrick has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager in the 1970’s and will now appear in criminal court August 26 to answer the three counts of indecent assault and battery — a fate he had so far avoided.

July 29, 2021

Cdl. Burke: There Are ‘Many in the Church’ Who Are in ‘Practical Apostasy’

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - In a fiery homily, Cardinal Raymond Burke described the events to which the third secret of Fatima is referring as occurring currently, pointing to the “practical apostasy of our time, that is, the going away from Christ by many in the Church.”The American cardinal delivered his homily at the National Blue Army Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima on July 13.

July 29, 2021

Vatican Says 5th Catholic Bishop Consecrated Under China Agreement, by Hannah Brockhaus

By Hannah Brockhaus, CNA - In October 2020, the Vatican and China renewed their provisional agreement on the appointment of bishops for another two years... Bishop Antonio Yao Shun of Jining, in the Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia, was the first bishop consecrated in China under the terms of the Sino-Vatican agreement, on Aug. 26, 2019.

July 29, 2021

The Pillar Stories Do Raise Questions—But Not About Journalistic Ethics, by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Why did Pillar want to explore the information available from the cell-phone use of clerics? Why did some unknown donor want to make that information available to Pillar, for public release?... For years now, concerned Catholics have warned about the prevalence of homosexual activity among the clergy... our bishops have chosen to ignore the problem of clerical homosexuality, as long as only consenting adults are involved.