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  • US cardinal: Exorcist role should be ‘private’ after priest’s removal tied to UFO controversy

    ROME (CNS) — Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington said his decision to remove a high-profile priest as an archdiocesan exorcist was driven by the public way he exercised his ministry, not by his specific beliefs about UFOs. Following comments on social media linking UFOs to demonic activity, Msgr. Stephen Rossetti was removed in early…

  • Church needs simpler, better ways to explain synodality, some bishops say

    VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Hesitation and resistance to the Church’s synodal journey can be addressed with clearer explanations, better training and more hands-on experience of what synodality is, bishops representing North America said. “A very clear takeaway is the need for more formation in synodality, including its meaning, its methods and its spirituality,” Archbishop Paul…

  • On U.S. Independence Day, Pope Leo honors migrants in Lampedusa

    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…

Church needs simpler, better ways to explain synodality, some bishops say

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Hesitation and resistance to the Church’s synodal journey can be addressed with clearer explanations, better training and more hands-on experience of what synodality is, bishops representing North America said. “A very clear takeaway is the need for more formation in synodality, including its meaning, its methods and its spirituality,” Archbishop Paul…

On U.S. Independence Day, Pope Leo honors migrants in Lampedusa

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…

Why the SSPX dispute was never really about the Latin Mass

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…

Why the SSPX dispute was never really about the Latin Mass

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…

We Cannot Turn a Blind Eye to Injustice, Says Bishop Cahill

WASHINGTON – This week, the Trump Administration ultimately prevailed in a court challenge to its decision to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Haiti and Syria. Bishop Brendan J. Cahill, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Migration, issued the following statement in response:  “Revoking the legal status of hundreds of…