Persecution of Faithful Priests

Michigan priest resigns amid dispute over school appearance by ‘openly gay’ author 

04/18/2024 at 1:05 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Daniel Payne, Catholic News Agency/CNA Staff, April 18, 2024 A priest at a Michigan parish has resigned his post following a controversy over an “openly gay” author’s appearance at the parish parochial school’s pre-kindergarten class. Father Thomas Held has resigned from the... read more

Kentucky Bishop Dismisses Priests Who Derided Novus Ordo Mass as ‘Irrelevant’

01/25/2024 at 1:58 PM By Kevin Edward White
The bishop said he was exploring other locations for the parish’s liturgies. By Daniel Payne/CNA/National Catholic Register, January 25, 2024 A Kentucky bishop this month announced the dismissal of two priests who he said had repeatedly denigrated the modern form of the holy sacrifice of... read more

Bishop’s Blog / January 4th Letter to Priests

01/04/2024 at 8:08 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Joseph Strickland, January 04, 2024     St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Memorial  My Dear Brother Priests, As we begin 2024, let us pray that we enter this new year with great priestly fervor and with the Blessed Virgin Mary by our side.  My previous letters have focused... read more

‘A Lightning Bolt’ — Visa Rule Change Upends Placements for Foreign-Born Priests

12/12/2023 at 3:16 PM By Kevin Edward White
The unprecedented flood of undocumented immigrants has resulted in unanticipated restrictions on the availability of visas for religious workers from other countries. By Joan Frawley Desmond, National Catholic Register, December 12, 2023 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Only nine months ago, Father... read more

EXCLUSIVE: Strickland sacking signals ‘internal persecution of faithful Catholics’

12/01/2023 at 12:29 PM By Kevin Edward White
[Bishop Athanasius Schneider was the featured speaker at our October 2017 Catholic Citizens of Illinois Annual Banquet.– Catholic Citizens of Illinois Ed.] By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald (UK), November 27. 2023 An “internal persecution” of faithful Catholics is under way in the... read more

Reports: Vatican-ordered investigation targets Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas

06/25/2023 at 5:11 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Shannon Mullen and Jonathon Liedl, Catholic News Agency/ CNA Newsroom, June 25, 2023 The Vatican’s Dicastery of Bishops has completed a formal investigation of Bishop Joseph E. Strickland and the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, according to multiple media reports. What prompted the... read more

The Sad Case of Frank Pavone

12/25/2022 at 4:54 PM By Kevin Edward White
While Pavone’s laicization understandably raises many emotions among pro-life Catholics, it’s not as simple as “ Vatican bad, canceled priest good.” By Eric Sammons, Crisis, December 29,2022 Frank Pavone*, founder of Priests for Life and a long-time pro-life leader, was laicized... read more

Vatican Removes Anti-Abortion Activist From the Priesthood

12/18/2022 at 9:53 PM By Kevin Edward White
Frank Pavone’s work has led to clashes over the years with some Catholic leaders. By Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham, Nedw York Times. December 18, 2022 A well-known Catholic priest and incendiary leader of the anti-abortion movement was removed from the priesthood by the Vatican,... read more

Mass banned at Woodlawn’s Shrine of Christ the King

08/10/2022 at 11:26 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Marc C. Monaghan, Hyde Park Herald, August 8, 2022 Shrine of Christ the King. “As of August 1, the celebration of public Masses is suspended,” reads a small sign placed in the chapel of Shrine of Christ the King. Masses and other sacraments at Shrine of Christ the King, 6401 S.... read more

European Parliament calls on Vatican to support Cardinal Zen

07/08/2022 at 10:10 PM By Kevin Edward White
By CNA Staff, Catholic World Report, July y 8, 2022 The European Parliament has called on the Vatican “to give full support to Cardinal Zen” and told the Holy See it should “strengthen its diplomatic efforts and its leverage on the Chinese authorities”. In a resolution passed on July... read more

TLM altar boys implore cardinal: Consider our love for Latin Mass

05/15/2022 at 10:24 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Joe Bukuras, Catholic News Agency, May 14, 2022 Six Latin Mass altar servers in a Washington, D.C. parish have written an impassioned letter to the Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, imploring him to consider their positive experiences in the Traditional Latin Mass when... read more

Vatican clears Polish Cardinal Dziwisz of abuse cover-up allegations

04/22/2022 at 2:21 PM By Kevin Edward White

Kansas’ Bishop Brungardt remains under abuse investigation

02/10/2022 at 7:24 PM By Kevin Edward White

Burlington priest asks parishioners to tell bishop of his pastoral care, mental health

01/20/2022 at 12:37 PM By Kevin Edward White

Cardinal Cupich Presides Over Pagan Chinese Ceremony

01/12/2022 at 10:17 AM By Kevin Edward White
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Fr David Muscat to be charged in court with hate speech

01/07/2022 at 5:01 PM By Kevin Edward White

Vatican removes former San Benito County priest from accused list

12/10/2021 at 10:09 PM By Kevin Edward White

Vocations to priesthood and consecrated life shine among the darkness marked by Covid

09/03/2021 at 9:03 PM By Kevin Edward White

Sex abuse claims against Bishop DiMarzio lack ‘semblance of truth’, Vatican rules

09/02/2021 at 8:30 AM By Kevin Edward White

Bishops issue guidance in response to Pope Francis’ document on the Traditional Latin Mass

07/19/2021 at 10:17 AM By Kevin Edward White