Vatican official rebukes US nuns’ group for ‘fundamental errors’
Using what he acknowledged was unusually “blunt” language, the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office rebuked officers of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) for honouring a Catholic...
View ArticleUS priests criticise Cardinal Muller for ‘bullying’ LCWR comments
The Association of US Catholic Priests, in a letter to Pope Francis, have criticised the head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) for his recent comments chastising the...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 18/08/14
The Pope urged Asian youth to “wake up” as he celebrated the closing Mass of the sixth Asian Youth Day in South Korea yesterday (full text, short video, full video, photos). More than 100,000 people...
View ArticleCardinal O’Malley: ‘If I were founding a Church, I’d love to have women priests’
Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston has said that were he to start a church he would “love to have women priests”. The outspoken remarks came during an interview with 60 Minutes on American television...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 04/12/14
The Vatican has decided to publish the results of its investigation of American women religious. The Pope has reportedly declined to extend Daniel Anrig’s tenure as commander of the Swiss Guards. Sri...
View ArticleVatican report calls for continued dialogue with US women religious
Although initially seen by many religious and lay Catholics as a punitive measure, the Vatican-ordered investigation of US communities of women religious concluded today with the publication of a...
View ArticleVatican ends seven-year investigation of US women religious
The Vatican has ended a seven-year investigation into the US Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). LCWR leaders met Pope Francis today as the Vatican announced the conclusion of the process,...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 17/04/15
Francis will visit Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay in July, in his first papal trip to Spanish-speaking Latin America, the Vatican has confirmed. Italian police have arrested Muslim migrants for...
View ArticleThe result is in: now the LCWR must prove it can change its ways
The Vatican and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the umbrella body that represents most American nuns, have announced the conclusion of the seven-year investigation that the Vatican...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 15/05/15
Paraguayan Archbishop Edmundo Valenzuela has accused the UN of promoting a “culture of death” after it pressed the country to give a 10-year-old rape victim an abortion. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of...
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