In the early 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church had its own secret police. A zealous Vatican functionary, Monsignor Umberto Benigni, set up a group of trusted clerical informers, called the ...

On Sunday, just ahead of his trip to Türkiye and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV wrote about the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of ...

I was edified to see that Bishop Kevin Rhodes of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, called for a recognition of the great Father of the Church, Saint Irenaeus (A.D. 130-202), as a “Doctor of the Church” ...

What does a church council from the year 325 have to do with a group of more than 300 suburban Catholics gathered in a ...

In an essay published Feb. 28, Bishop Thomas Paprocki appears to accuse Cardinal Robert McElroy of heresy, citing the cardinal's views on ministering to LGBTQ people and Catholics who have been ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Saturday reaffirmed the "primacy" of using one's conscience to navigate tough moral questions in his first comments since he was publicly accused of spreading heresy by ...

Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, said he and Cardinal Robert McElroy "exchanged some emails" after the publication of Paprocki's controversial Feb. 28 essay at First Things magazine ...

Well, this is shocking, but not surprising, if you follow me. Father Jerry Pokorsky writes: An astonishing news item in the Wall Street Journal reports: “At a meeting in Frankfurt, German [Catholic] ...

That's Cardinal McElroy of San Diego above. More on him in a moment. But first, when I was in Ireland recently, I met a man who told me, with sadness, that the Irish Catholic bishops don't even ...

The reverse is more likely true. The American Catholic Church seems to be tending toward the heresy of religious intellectualism. It is an elusive heresy, the mother of rationalism. America has ever ...

From the standpoint of Catholic teaching, there is no way the November action of the Episcopal Church U.S.A. in ordaining as its new bishop of New Hampshire a man living in an open homosexual ...

Bishop Robert Vasa of Baker, Oregon, has warned the faithful that Catholic politicians or voters who are pro-abortion commit heresy against the Fifth Commandment’s prohibition of murder. “Bishop Vasa ...