Parents who pledged $1.35 million to their daughters’ Catholic school say the school has put the woke culture ahead of Catholic education. Anthony and Barbara Scarpo are suing the school in an effort to have their pledge rescinded. The money was to be used for the school’s master plan and to provide scholarships for disadvantaged Read more
An Ohio priest is to plead guilty to child pornography charges in a case highlighting the challenges the church faces ensuring technology accountability among clerics. The priest was arrested after using hookup apps to meet and pay a male minor victim for sex. He also acquired pornographic selfies from minors through manipulation and extortion via Read more
Pope Francis will attend the UN Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow along with leaders from around the world, but only if his health allows it. The 84-year-old pontiff has returned to his home in the Vatican after convalescing from his July 4 operation. He is expected to resume normal activity in August. Scotland’s Catholic bishops Read more
The ongoing dispute between expelled nun, Sr Lucy Kapalppura and her convent in Kerala, India, has moved to Kerala’s High Court. The “canonical violations” leading to Kapalppura’s dismissal included her joining in a protest against rape-accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal despite being told not to by her religious superior. Kapalppura has taken her case to the Read more
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin says the long-awaited constitution for a reformed Roman Curia is basically finished. It is now undergoing a legal review by the Church’s canon lawyers, he says. How the Catholic Church continues to deal with the clergy sex abuse crisis, bioethical issues in society and the upcoming Vatican maxi-trial Read more
Washington, Colorado and Oregon are among US states that have legalized the process of converting human bodies into soil. This is a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show “respect for the body of the deceased.” Meanwhile, California and New York are seeking to be next in line to allow human composting. The process Read more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recently got married in Westminster Cathedral and quoted from the Psalms in a media interview weeks later, hailed Christianity as “a superb ethical system”. But he added that he would count himself “as a kind of very, very bad Christian.” A friend of the prime minister reportedly told several Read more
Church leaders in Lebanon are planning to hold a summit with Muslim leaders about the future of the troubled nation. The summit is part of a “road map” given to them by Pope Francis, according to Maronite patriarch Cardinal Béchara Rai. According to Cardinal Rai, the leaders were offered a series of measures making up Read more
A federal judge in late June blocked a law in Indiana set to take effect July 1, which would have required doctors to inform women procuring medical abortion that it is possible for the effects of the first drug in the regimen to be reversed. In a lawsuit filed May 18 in the US District Read more
A priest removed from his ministry has a history of making controversial and incendiary remarks. Bishop William Patrick Callahan’s decree restricts Fr James Altman from his ministry for an undetermined length of time, according to a statement from the La Crosse diocese. Descriptions of Altman speak of “a rogue Wisconsin priest” who is a “firebrand” Read more