Too funny. Leo should not "battle" Catholic cardinals or try to make Catholicism anything other than it was before Pope Bergoglio Francis. If Leo wants a more inclusive (globalist lingo) church, let Leo make a new church. Leo can make Catholicism better by abdicating.
As the Archdiocese of Dubuque finalizes its "Journey in Faith" plan, Catholics in northeast Iowa are grappling with parish consolidations, fewer weekend Mass sites, and a shift toward evangelism amid priest shortages and declining attendance.
Cut the crap... the real problem is not enough priests - even with church attendance in single digits. Reduce Mass locations? That just means you "hope" people will care enough to travel to get to a N.O. Mass far from their locale so it will "look" full. But the decline is still happening! There is NO increase!!
“They are an extraordinary family,” McGurn said in the interview. Lai’s wife, Teresa Lai, “is a rock. If Jimmy didn’t have Teresa to lean on, he knows it, he wouldn’t be strong. I mean, he has his faith, but she strengthens it. That’s what they have in common,” McGurn said.
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 16, 2025 / 07:00 am Catholic human rights and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was found guilty following his lengthy national security trial. Lai, 78, will be sentenced at a later date but faces up to life in prison. The Dec. 15 verdict “is important, and it’s not important,” Bill McGurn, Wall Street Journal columnist and godfather of Lai, told “EWTN News Nightly.” “It’s important because it’s part of the Hong Kong process, and everyone knew he would always be convicted. So it’s important because we have to get it out of the way,” McGurn said. “Jimmy cannot be released until he was convicted, and that’s why we had to wait all these years for the trial and then his conviction.” “On the other hand, it was always this charade … the world sees it for what it is. And so in Jimmy Lai’s world, it’s not really a big milestone because it’s phony. Everything about it is phony,” McGurn said. ‘The real work begins now’ While the verdict was guilty, it is …
“Many abortion workers have some faith,” explained ATTWN marketing and communications director Karen Herzog. “Each year, we choose a Christmas card with a Holy Family scene. The nuns write handwritten notes inside, letting the person who opens the cards and hopefully everyone else working there, know that religious sisters are praying for them to choose to leave the abortion industry.”
Cardinal Mario Grech knew you couldn’t wait, so he dropped you a little appetizer of a publication that “seeks to promote a broader understanding of this phase of the Synod’s implementation process.” Let’s dive in. Actually, since the summary is 11,359 words long all by itself, why don’t I just summarize the summary and give you the highlights?
Members of Minnesota’s Somali community have been involved in a scheme to defraud Medicaid by falsely diagnosing children with autism and sending the money to Al-Shabaab. It cites a sharp rise in Medicaid spending on autism services and an increase in autism centers as evidence, though no verified sources are provided. Look at the insane spike in claims: 2018: $3 million 2023: $399 million
These animals do not care. They are termites who feed upon us and then give the products to other lands. REMEMBER, it was Catholic charities who sponsored most of these beasts into our nation., and the blame goes mainly to them.
Optimistic Reading of Current Church Trajectory: “a lot of renewal in Catholic education” “a real hope and a frontier that is opening up” “Catholic revival driven especially by young men”
Cardinal Robert McElroy has been diagnosed with cancer, which will be surgically removed on Nov. 13, the Archdiocese of Washington announced today. The precise diagnosis is well-differentiated liposarcoma, a non-aggressive cancer that tends not to metastasize. His doctors therefore agree that his prognosis is very good.
Kardinal McElroy ima raka: Nadškofija Washington je včeraj sporočila, da je njihov nadškof, kardinal Robert McElroy, zbolel za rakom. Tumor bo kirurško odstranjen 13. novembra. McElroy ima dobro diferenciran liposarkom, neagresiven rak, ki ne metastazira. Prognoza je zelo dobra. V govoru duhovnikom nadškofije o svoji diagnozi med letnim zborom jim je prelat dejal: "S tem izzivom sem pomirjen ter upam in verjamem, da bom z Božjo milostjo še mnogo let nadškof Washingtona."
Father Xamie Reyes, a parish pastor, faces accusations of homosexual misconduct against seminarians in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Cardinal Blase Cupich had now to remove him from the parish.
The most notable growth in Catholics is in Africa, with an increase of 8,309,000; and the Americas with 5,668,000; followed by Asia with 954,000; Europe with 740,000; and Oceania with 210,000.
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 11:48 am (CNA). On the occasion of the 99th World Mission Day, to be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 19, with the theme “Missionaries of Hope among all Peoples,” the Vatican news agency Fides presented some statistics that offer a general overview of the Catholic Church worldwide. The study is based on numbers from 2023, in which the world population rose to 7,914,582,000, with a positive trend on all continents, including Europe. The increase in Catholics was 15,881,000 over the previous year. The most notable growth in Catholics is in Africa, with an increase of 8,309,000; and the Americas with 5,668,000; followed by Asia with 954,000; Europe with 740,000; and Oceania with 210,000. The percentage of Catholics in the world’s population increased by 0.1% compared to the previous year, reaching 17.8%. The total number of bishops worldwide increased by 77 compared to the previous year’s survey, reaching 5,430. Diocesan bishops also increased by 84, while …
For a while now, I've doubted all these statistics that show the world population increasing while at the same time in the majority of nations there has been a severe drop in birth rates to the point that many are in demographic free fall - even China that used to be the most populated country with over a billion and enforced a draconian 'one-child' policy with forced abortion. So where are all these people? Or is it a ruse to brainwash us to believe in the "population bomb' that will destroy the world like was shown in sci-fi movies of the 70s such as Soylent Green?
Let us speak plainly: when men are appointed to power who reject the moral law, who mock the Sacred Liturgy, who scorn the faithful who kneel before the Eucharistic Lord – this is not renewal, it is revolt against Christ Himself.
On the morning of September 23, I issued a news release about a “Lifetime Achievement Award” being given to Sen. Dick Durbin on November 3 by the Archdiocese of Chicago. As I detailed, it was already setting off alarms among the clergy and the laity. The reason is simple: there has never been an abortion he couldn’t justify; his voting record on other matters is also in opposition to core Catholic teachings. By that afternoon, it was becoming clear that this issue was red hot. That is why I wrote an open letter to Sen. Durbin noting the divisions this issue is causing in the Catholic community. I asked that he decline the award and put this issue to rest. We sent the letter in the overnight mail to be delivered the morning of September 24 in his D.C. office; his district office received a copy in the afternoon. As you know, many bishops have criticized Cardinal Blase Cupich for naming Sen. Durbin as the recipient of this Catholic award. As lay Catholics, it falls to us to persuade …
On 18 August, card Burke stated: Leo takes the time to appoint people capable of assisting him in his main responsibilities. The office of pope is impossible for those without the right associates. The very choice of a name that harks back to Leo the Great and Leo XIII makes clear his desire to be an authentic ‘father of fathers’, a true shepherd of the universal Church.
Checchio might be the perfect replacement for Archbishop Gregory Aymond, who is alleged to have abused multiple seminarians while also covering up the abuse of others at Notre Dame Seminary.
After being used in WW2 compulsory ID cards were abolished in 1952 because of the widespread sentiment that they are fundamentally at odds with British values and civil liberties. That was true then and it’s true now.
"Bishop Francesco Savino: Pope Leo urged me to celebrate Mass with LGBTQ Catholics." Bishop Francesco Savino is a vice president of the Italian Bishops Conference. This is the historic homily, from the recent homosexual Eucharist at the Church of the Gesu in Rome.