Catholic Church

By Russell Shaw, Catholic Exchange - Shared responsibility—the Synodality Lite of the 1970s you might call it—was all the rage in the heady days right after Vatican Council II. Meetings were held and documents  published promoting the idea, and preliminary steps were taken by setting up pastoral councils of clergy, religious, and laity in dioceses throughout the country... As planners saw it, the capstone of this burgeoning superstructure would be a National  Pastoral Council where bishops, priests, religious, and lay people could hammer out policy for the Church’s socio-political program at the national level.

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - In the almost 35 years that have passed since the 1988 episcopal consecrations performed by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer in Écône, Switzerland, the debate surrounding the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) has raged on... In this, the 2023rd year of Our Lord, the debate seems to have reached a fever pitch as various Catholic internet personalities have come out swinging in favor of or vehemently against the SSPX.

By Ashley Sadler, LifeSiteNew - San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on Friday expressed his gratitude and appreciation for priests who found creative ways to circumvent COVID-19 lockdown orders in order to offer Mass and provide the Holy Eucharist to Catholics during the height of the pandemic response... Cordileone made the remarks during a May 26 ceremony of ordination to the Sacred Priesthood at the North American Martyrs Church in Lincoln, Nebraska.