4+ day, 12+ min ago   (833+ words) Twenty-three Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome. Six are headed by a patriarch: the Coptic, Syriac, Melkite Greek, Maronite, Chaldean, and Armenian Catholic Churches. Four more are headed by a major archbishop, an office…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1112+ words) The Catholic Church needs an “independent ecclesiastical commission” to evaluate bishops’ ad limina visits. That is one of the conclusions of a nine-page document released Sept. 8 by the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod on the visits that regional groupings…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (876+ words) An upcoming ruling by the European Union’s top court on whether a Belgian diocese must erase baptismal register data on request could have significant implications for the Church’s autonomy and institutional freedom of religion. That is the contention of a…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (909+ words) The Holy See’s chief diplomat has been in Moscow this week, meeting the Russian foreign minister. Both men offered sober but broadly positive sounding statements following the meeting, as the Vatican continues to push for peace in Eastern Europe. But…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (823+ words) And a very happy feast of St. Pius X to all who celebrate. Well, to all of you who celebrate who aren’t in schism — those of you who are should repent and submit to the pope. Prior to the code,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1713+ words) The pontifical delegate to the beleaguered Institute of the Incarnate Word has announced a new general council, as part of Vatican efforts to reform the congregation, and a new website for the group, largely because Vatican-appointed officials had been unable…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1159+ words) Nicaraguan Bishop Abelardo Mata, SDB, emeritus Bishop of Estelí, appeared this week in an interview with a regime-controlled TV station, his first appearance since being taken into police custody six weeks ago. In the interview, Mata claims to be well…...