LAMPEDUSA, Italy (CNS) — For more than 30 years, Dr. Pietro Bartolo said he has examined more than 350,000 people and performed postmortem examinations on those who died making the crossing to Lampedusa, where migrants rescued from the Mediterranean first arrived. One story, he said, has stayed with him. After a shipwreck near Malta, a…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican declared July 2 that the six bishops involved in the Society of St. Pius X’s unauthorized episcopal consecrations had incurred automatic excommunication and said its clergy “are in schism and therefore must be considered schismatics.” The decree from Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican declared July 2 that the six bishops involved in the Society of St. Pius X’s unauthorized episcopal consecrations had incurred automatic excommunication and said its clergy “are in schism and therefore must be considered schismatics.” The decree from Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine…
WASHINGTON – Marking the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, Pope Leo XIV has addressed a letter to the American people. The U.S. bishops are grateful to the Holy Father for his inspiring message, and for his prayers as we commemorate this milestone anniversary of our nation. …
ROME (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV’s call for unity in diversity extends beyond greater communion within the Catholic Church and includes one’s wider community, some newly appointed U.S. archbishops said. Pope Leo has been a role model in a world marked by division, “to remind us we’re all brothers and sisters and see one another…