Homosexuality

Report: Society of St. Pius X priest admits to years of sexual misconduct with minors

04/11/2024 at 5:42 AM By Kevin Edward White
By AC Wimmer, Catholic News Agency Newsroom, Apr 11, 2024 At a hearing for a criminal trial in France, a priest of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) who spent six years in the U.S. has admitted to sexual misconduct with French minors over a period of 15 years, local media reported... read more

Cardinal Fernández calls for change to Catholic condemnation of homosexuality as ‘intrinsically disordered’

04/08/2024 at 5:34 PM By Kevin Edward White
Fernández said about the Catholic Church’s rejection of homosexuality as intrinsically disordered that ‘it would be good if we could find an expression that is even clearer’ and ‘more appropriate to convey this mystery’ in his latest scandalous remarks. By Michael Haynes, LifeSite... read more

French government cracks down on priest who said homosexual relations are sinful

04/04/2024 at 7:00 AM By Kevin Edward White
 By Walter Sanchez, Catholic World Report, April 3, 2024 The French government has initiated a series of legal measures against Father Matthieu Raffray for calling homosexual relations sinful and for describing homosexuality as a “weakness.” On March 15, the priest of the Institute of... read more

Filial Appeal to All Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church

02/02/2024 at 12:40 PM By Kevin Edward White
Crisis Magazine We ask all Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church to forbid the application of Fiducia Supplicans in their dioceses. Your Eminencies, Your Excellencies: We, the undersigned Catholic priests, scholars, and authors, write to you on the occasion of the latest... read more

Amid furor over Vatican doc, Pope says aim is to bless people, not same-sex unions

01/27/2024 at 8:00 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Mary Allen, Crux Now, January 27, 2024 ROME – Amid the ongoing furor over a recent Vatican declaration on the blessing of same-sex couples, Pope Francis on Friday appeared to try to rein in certain interpretations of the document, insisting that what’s at issue is a pastoral gesture... read more

Marking One Month of ‘Fiducia Supplicans’: Opposition Shows No Signs of Abating

01/21/2024 at 5:02 PM By Kevin Edward White
Criticism of the document that authorized the blessing of same-sex couples is seen as unprecedented by some Church historians. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, January 18, 2024 VATICAN CITY — One month after the Vatican released Fiducia Supplicans allowing the... read more

Australian police raid former home of ‘sexual predator’ bishop

01/15/2024 at 8:05 AM By Kevin Edward White
By The Pillar, January 15, 2024  Child abuse investigators in Australia raided a Church property Monday, as part of an investigation into the former Bishop of Broome.  The property, a house, was until last year the residence of Bishop Christopher Saunders, who resigned as bishop of... read more

Doctrine chief: Book on sexuality not something he’d write today

01/09/2024 at 11:24 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Justin McLellan, Our Sunday Visitor, January 9, 2024 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican’s doctrine chief said the sometimes-graphic book on sexuality and spirituality that he published 25 years ago is “a book of my youth that I certainly would not write now.” In comments to... read more

Two Commentaries on the Blessing of ‘Irregular Couples’

12/30/2023 at 3:16 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Fr. Raymond J. de Souza/ Fr. Gerard E. Murray, Catholic Thing, December 30, 2023 ["Catholic Thing" Editor's Note: Fiducia Supplicans, the recent document published by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, argues that – owing to a “development” in the idea of blessings... read more

Following other Africans, Cameroon bishops deliver firm ‘no’ on same-sex blessings

12/27/2023 at 11:40 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux, December 27, 2023 YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – Bishops across Africa, from Nairobi to Yaoundé and from Cotonou to Lilongwe, have registered strong reactions to a new Vatican document on the blessing of same-sex relationships, generally suggesting such relationships... read more

Milwaukee priest placed on leave as conduct investigated

12/04/2023 at 12:42 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Michelle La Rosa and JD Flynn, the Pillar, December 1, 2023 A Milwaukee priest who maintained an allegedly romantic public relationship with a layman was placed on administrative leave Friday, while a formal canonical investigation into his conduct is initiated.  The move comes one... read more

Appealing But Deadly

12/03/2023 at 10:53 PM By Kevin Edward White

Pope Francis talks Synod on Synodality and homosexuality in new interview

11/05/2023 at 3:25 PM By Kevin Edward White

Author of Catechism says Pope could change language on LGBTQ+ issues

10/25/2023 at 1:48 PM By Kevin Edward White

Latvian Bishop at Synod: If Someone is Living in Sin, We Cannot Tell Them That’s All Right

10/18/2023 at 10:50 PM By Kevin Edward White

Dominican nun speaks in favor of homosexuals being able to marry in the Church

09/22/2023 at 10:02 AM By Kevin Edward White

Head of Europe’s Largest Archdiocese Criticized for Remarks on ‘Experience of Love’ and Homosexual Attraction

09/21/2023 at 7:41 PM By Kevin Edward White

As Pride Month winds down, Eden Invitation offers a way forward

06/27/2023 at 1:10 PM By Kevin Edward White

GAY ROLE IN CLERGY ABUSE STILL DENIED

06/21/2023 at 1:24 PM By Kevin Edward White

Father Martin’s ‘Outreach’ Ministry to ‘LGBT’ Catholics Wants to Burn the Bridge to Authentic Salvation

05/10/2023 at 8:07 AM By Kevin Edward White