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National Catholic Reporter calls McElroy news ‘thrilling’Gomez, DiNardo, Cordileone so yesterday

National Catholic Reporter calls McElroy news ‘thrilling’
Gomez, DiNardo, Cordileone so yesterday

The news that Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego has been named a cardinal is thrilling. The first American to be

Pope names San Diego’s Bishop McElroy cardinalBypasses Archbishop Gomez; Cupich not surprised

Pope names San Diego’s Bishop McElroy cardinal
Bypasses Archbishop Gomez; Cupich not surprised

Pope Francis on May 29 named 16 new cardinal electors, including Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, California, along with three Vatican officials and a number of bishops from the global south. The

U.S. bishops meeting in June will be tellingWill they follow Cordileone lead?

U.S. bishops meeting in June will be telling
Will they follow Cordileone lead?

The head of the Southern Baptist office in Washington D.C. once said to me during St. John Paul II’s papacy, “You’ve got a pope there who really knows how to pope.”

What does Pelosi ban mean for Biden?What will Pope Francis say?

What does Pelosi ban mean for Biden?
What will Pope Francis say?

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has formally barred Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion “until such time as you publically [sic] repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution

Polish, Scandinavian bishops sent letters to German bishopsEnglish-speaking bishops fraternal correction lists seven points

Polish, Scandinavian bishops sent letters to German bishops
English-speaking bishops fraternal correction lists seven points

In the golden age of the Catholic episcopate—the days of great Church Fathers like Cyprian of Carthage

Meet Bishop Cozzens who went to jail for the unbornInterview with the ordinary of Crookston, Minnesota

Meet Bishop Cozzens who went to jail for the unborn
Interview with the ordinary of Crookston, Minnesota

Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens, 53, is the Bishop of Crookston, Minnesota. He grew up in Denver, Colorado, the youngest of three children in a devout Catholic family. His father was an aerospace engineer and his mother

Cordileone on letter to German bishopsReforms were “actually challenges to long-established and settled doctrine"

Cordileone on letter to German bishops
Reforms were “actually challenges to long-established and settled doctrine"

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, one of the bishops who have signed a letter of warning to German bishops for their proposed reforms, emphasized on

International coalition of bishops offers ‘fraternal letter of concern’In addition to Archbishop Cordileone, California Bishops Barber, Vann, Vasa and Freyer are among the signers

International coalition of bishops offers ‘fraternal letter of concern’
In addition to Archbishop Cordileone, California Bishops Barber, Vann, Vasa and Freyer are among the signers

Seventy-four Catholic bishops from four continents have signed a “fraternal open letter” to their episcopal counterparts in Germany, expressing concern over the German Church’s controversial “Synodal Path.”

While noting the need for reform

Worth dying forWhat those words demand from us now

Worth dying for
What those words demand from us now

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from an address given by Archbishop Chaput at St. Francis De Sales Seminary, Milwaukee, on April 4, 2022.

Old age has enormous value for its experience and

Pro and contra Cardinal Marx on Catholic CatechismBishop Strickland, Father James Martin chime in

Pro and contra Cardinal Marx on Catholic Catechism
Bishop Strickland, Father James Martin chime in

Pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin rushed to the defense of German Cardinal Reinhard Marx Saturday, after the latter proposed changing Catholic teaching on the morality of gay sex.

After Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, admonished Cardinal

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