Catholic Church

By Daniel Payne, Catholic News Agency - As Catholic schools struggle to reach pre-pandemic student enrollment levels, Catholic home education appears to be enjoying a small renaissance, in keeping with trends showing an ongoing spike in home schooling across the U.S... The Washington Post last month reported that home schooling is by far the “fastest-growing form of education” in the United States, with double-digit increases in home-school enrollment seen in a majority of U.S. states over roughly the past five years.

By Tyler Arnold, CNA - The Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) in response to a question from a Filipino bishop recently reaffirmed the long-standing position of the Catholic Church that being an active Freemason constitutes a grave sin... “Active membership in Freemasonry by a member of the faithful is forbidden,” said the letter, signed by Pope Francis and DDF Prefect Cardinal Victor Fernández.

By Julian Kwasniewski, The Catholic Thing - The Synod seems to be a tour de force of what it means when an assembly is “lacking in judgement or common sense,” whose actions cause “amusement or derision.” Yet for all the bellyaching of the conservative media – most certainly justified – what do we, in fact, do?... Because at the end of the day, the silliness is not at all harmless: it’s parasitic, as Randall Smith so nicely pointed out in his submissive updating.

By Carina Benton, The Federalist - The inevitable occurred last weekend when Pope Francis ousted Bishop Joseph Strickland from his Diocese of Tyler, Texas for reasons not yet provided, after “an exhaustive inquiry into all aspects of the governance and leadership of the diocese” was initiated back in June... According to a statement released on Saturday by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, who oversees the suffragan Diocese of Tyler, the recommendation given to the Pope was that the “continuation in office of Bishop Strickland was not feasible.”