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Where is the Torreciudad shrine dispute headed?
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (1494+ words) A Spanish newspaper has published alleged letters from Pope Francis, suggesting the late pope supported the bishop of Barbastro in a dispute with Opus Dei about the Marian shrine in his diocese. The publication of the allegedly leaked letters comes…...
Papal synodality: Why Pope Leo gave Eastern Churches the power to remove Patriarchs
4+ day, 2+ 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…...
French victims ask Pope Leo to take action on spiritual abuse
4+ day, 9+ min ago (988+ words) A group of more than 200 victims of spiritual abuse and their relatives is asking Pope Leo XIV to take concrete steps to prevent and respond to instances of spiritual abuse within the Church. In a Sept. 7 letter, published in La…...
Synod study group proposes commission to assess ‘ad limina’ visits
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…...
EU bishops’ conferences await ruling on erasing baptismal entries
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…...
The Vatican and Beijing’s long term bets against each other
1+ week, 3+ day ago (852+ words) The Vatican announced on Monday the most recent in a growing list of bishops selected and installed under the norms of the 2018 agreement with the Chinese government on episcopal appointments. Bishop Paul Liu Honggang was consecrated Aug. 31 and installed as…...
Second German bishop in two weeks resigns, citing ‘toll of office’
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1002+ words) Pope Leo XIV accepted Wednesday another early resignation of a German diocesan bishop, who cited the toll of office as a reason for stepping down. The Holy See press office announced Sept. 2 that the pope had accepted the resignation of…...
Bishop reiterates threat to resign in dispute over Spanish shrine
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1258+ words) A six-year dispute between the Spanish Diocese of Barbastro-Monzón and Opus Dei over a Marian image at the shrine of Torreciudad has escalated after almost a year of relative silence, with the local bishop again threatening to resign if the…...
What to make of Pope Leo’s Eastern canonical reform
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1149+ words) Pope Leo XIV issued on Saturday a reform to the Code of Canons for Eastern Churches, the common legal framework for the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches sui iuris. The new law creates a mechanism for the synods of the Eastern Churches…...
Agreement eases 4-year liturgical standoff at Syro-Malabar cathedral
1+ week, 5+ day ago (846+ words) An Indian cathedral at the heart of the Syro-Malabar liturgy dispute celebrated a Holy Qurbana entirely facing the people Sunday, after parishioners agreed to allow it alongside the Eastern Church’s new uniform Eucharistic liturgy. The agreement marks another step in…...