Catholic Church

By Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News - “Jesus did not create bishops’ conferences,” the Holy Father said curtly. “Jesus created bishops, and each bishop is pastor of his people.”... “It is misleading to speak of the relationship between Catholics and the bishops’ conference,” said Pope Francis, likely wondering what odd kind of Catholic thinks much about the bishops’ conference.. The bishops’ conference is not the pastor; the pastor is the bishop. ...

By Stephen P. White,  The Catholic Thing - But the USCCB is emphatically not the headquarters of the Catholic Church in the U.S. The USCCB is not the governing body of American Catholicism... The president of the conference is neither the patriarch of the U.S. nor the chief pastor of the American Church... None of this is to say the conference or its leadership are not important. They are. But they are mostly important as aids to the bishops. They exist to assist bishops in their ministry, not to replace them.

By Michael Voris, Church Militant - There is a massive lie within the gay community (among many) that within the Church, homosexual priests are not the problem when it comes to clerical sex abuse. That is an enormous lie, a Joseph Goebbels–sized lie... Consider this one simple reality, a known fact: More than four out of every five sex abuse victims were postpubescent boys. That is the very definition of homosexual.

By Catholic World News, Diocese of La Crosse - CWN Editor's Note: Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill resigned as general secretary of the USCCB in 2021 after the Pillar reported that he had frequently used the hookup app Grindr on his mobile phone to arrange homosexual encounters. Bishop William Callahan of La Crosse (Wisconsin) has now named him pastor of a parish; in June, he had named Burrill the parish’s temporary administrator.