Priestly Celibacy

Buffalo’s Christ the King Seminary: Sexual Misconduct Dates Back Decades

11/15/2019 at 11:32 AM By Kevin Edward White
[Part 2 of a Register report on allegations of sexual misconduct and the existence of an entrenched homosexual subculture at the Diocese of Buffalo’s seminary.] By Peter Jesserer Smith, National Catholic Register, November 14, 2019 BUFFALO, N.Y. — Christ the King Seminary is responsible... read more

Q&A turns up the heat as Latin Americans talk clerical abuse

11/08/2019 at 10:26 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Shannon Levitt Ines San Martin, Crux, November 8, 2019 MEXICO CITY - In what might have been a tepid Q&A session in the midst of a long day during a conference on abuse prevention in Mexico City, three questions instead heated things up in an overly air-conditioned room. A priest... read more

Former vicar general of Rome: Ordaining married men in Amazon a ‘wrong choice’

11/07/2019 at 2:33 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency, November 5, 2019 Cardinal Camillo Ruini, who served as Vicar General of Rome for 17 years and was a close collaborator of St. John Paul II, has said he hopes Pope Francis will not allow an exception to priestly celibacy in the Amazon region. To the... read more

Lost in a Dark Wood: Final Thoughts on the Amazon Synod

11/03/2019 at 2:53 PM By Kevin Edward White
[Dr. Robert Royal, editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing, and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C., was the featured speaker at our September 25 Catholic Citizens of Illinois annual banquet. His most recent book is A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition... read more
Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera

‘For men only’: Cardinal insists Church won’t try to ordain women to priesthood

11/02/2019 at 12:37 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Martin M. Barillas, LifeSiteNews, October 30, 2019 Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera affirmed that the male priesthood is of the essence of the Catholic faith and that “no one in the Church can do anything but admit that priestly ordination is for men only.” In an opinion piece that... read more

There’s a Pony in Here Somewhere: A Post-Synodal Reflection

11/01/2019 at 9:15 AM By Kevin Edward White
By George Weigel, First Things, October 28, 2019 According to his longtime consigliere, Edwin Meese, President Ronald Reagan must have told the “pony joke” at least a thousand times. The story involves the super-optimistic child whose parents take him to a psychiatrist, along with his... read more

The Synod’s Dissenters

10/29/2019 at 2:34 PM By Kevin Edward White
by Dan Hitchens, National Catholic Register, October 25, 2019, Barack Obama announced in 2012 that religious liberty was “an inalienable right that is enshrined in our Constitution. As a citizen and as a Christian, I cherish this right.” Yet as president he encouraged his colleagues to pursue... read more
Archbishop Georg Gänswein

Archbishop Gaenswein: Claim Benedict XVI Opened Path for Women Deacons ‘Totally Absurd’

10/28/2019 at 6:10 PM By Kevin Edward White
The Pope Emeritus’ personal secretary firmly rejects Brazilian synod father’s claim that a 2009 papal decree paved the way for women deacons. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, October 26, 2019 Benedict XVI’s personal secretary has said a claim put forward yesterday by a... read more

Three Key Paragraphs of Amazon Synod’s Final Document

10/28/2019 at 9:03 AM By Kevin Edward White
Full texts of the propositions relating to the ordination of married men, a female diaconate and an Amazonian rite, their voting numbers, plus some brief observations.By Edward Pentin< National Catholic Register Here below are the texts of the three most controversial and discussed matters... read more

Bishops Ask Pope Francis to Allow Married Priests in the Amazon

10/26/2019 at 2:33 PM By Kevin Edward White
Vatican assembly also calls for further study on ordaining women as deacons By Francis X. Rocca, All Street Journal, October 26, 2019 VATICAN CITY—A gathering of bishops at the Vatican recommended on Saturday that Pope Francis loosen the celibacy requirement for priests in South... read more

Dissenting note struck on married priests as solution for the Amazon

10/16/2019 at 12:11 PM By Kevin Edward White
By John L. Allen Jr., Crux, Oct 16, 2019 ROME - For the first time in one of the Vatican’s daily news briefings during the Oct. 6-27 Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, a dissenting voice was struck Wednesday about the idea of ordaining married men to solve priest shortages in the region. “I... read more

Cardinal Marc Ouellet Defends Priestly Celibacy Ahead of Pan-Amazon Synod

10/14/2019 at 6:00 PM By Kevin Edward White
Bishop Erwin Kräutler,

Key Synod Father Says Pan-Amazon Synod Is ‘Maybe a Step to’ Women Catholic Priests

10/09/2019 at 10:35 AM By Kevin Edward White

In the Amazon Married Deacons Are Already Saying Mass. And the Pope Knows It

09/12/2019 at 11:10 AM By Kevin Edward White

A Pope who doesn’t fear schism may cause one

09/12/2019 at 10:24 AM By Kevin Edward White

Priest accused of theft spent money on beach house, Grindr dates

08/22/2019 at 11:44 AM By Kevin Edward White
Cardinal Hummes

The Amazon synod organisers are at odds with Pope Francis

08/16/2019 at 2:14 PM By Kevin Edward White
Walter Denton prays as the sun rises in his backyard in Agat, Guam, Saturday, May 11, 2019.

Guam’s ex-archbishop shielded culture of clergy sex abuse

08/10/2019 at 10:13 AM By Kevin Edward White
Pope Francis is greeted by a member of an indigenous group from the Amazon region Peru, January 19, 2018.

In new interview, pope explains aim of synod, warns against nationalism

08/10/2019 at 8:40 AM By Kevin Edward White

AUSCP and its Episcopal Guardians

08/09/2019 at 9:53 AM By Mary Anne Hackett