Catholic Church: Ideological rifts among US bishops are in the spotlight ahead of momentous Vatican meeting
DAVID CRARY, of Associated Press, reports on divisions among US Catholics ahead of next month’s unprecedented synod…
Biden receives Communion in Rome amid ongoing debate in US
Rome, Italy AP US President Joe Biden received Communion at St Patrick’s Church during Saturday Vigil Mass, a day after saying Pope Francis told him he should continue to partake in the sacrament, despite the opposition of some conservatives in the US upset with his position on abortion. Biden and his wife, Jill, visited the English-speaking […]
Biden, Pope to talk virus, climate, poverty at Vatican
Rome, Italy AP President Joe Biden arrived at the Vatican Friday to meet with Pope Francis, the world’s two most notable Roman Catholics huddling to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and poverty. The President takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as moral guidepost to shape many of his social and economic policies. […]
Vatican warns US bishops over get-tough Communion proposals
RNS A Vatican official urged US bishops to tap the brakes on plans to produce a document concerning Communion and politicians, sending a letter to a top US cleric that could dial-down debate over whether to deny President Joe Biden the Eucharist. The letter, dated 7th May and first reported by America Magazine, came from Cardinal Luis […]
Pope Francis tells Catholic journalists he has hope for ‘courageous’ US church
Vatican CityRNS Addressing the current challenges of the US Catholic Church, Pope Francis warned against the polarization in the country and the “sins” of the media. “The church in the United States is a church that has been courageous – the history it has and the saints – and has done so much,” Pope Francis […]
McCarrick scandal, pandemic pose challenges for US bishops
AP Meeting online rather than in person, America’s Catholic bishops worried Monday that the coronavirus pandemic is testing people’s faith and wrestled with how to respond to a Vatican report detailing the serial sexual misconduct of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. “People’s faith in God has been shaken” by the pandemic, said Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, […]
In a moment of turmoil, US Catholic bishops meet virtually
AP Catholic bishops of the United States open a national meeting Monday under dramatic circumstances. A pandemic has compelled them to meet virtually from their far-flung dioceses. A hard-fought presidential election has caused sharp divisions in their own ranks. And six days before the meeting, the Vatican released a revelatory report detailing how clerics in […]
Pope Francis condemns ecological sins and Nazi-inspired rhetoric
Vatican City RNS A day after the US Catholic bishops declared the fight against abortion their most urgent priority at their fall meeting in Baltimore, prioritizing it over protection of the environment, Pope Francis set the record straight in a scathing speech at the Vatican on Friday in which he condemned “ecological sins”. Speaking to […]