The Pillar

10/09/2024

Sister Paz is not the first member of the community to have left the convent.

The reported departure could mark signs of deeper fracture within the schismatic community.

10/09/2024

The latest financial reports show that in the last year before McCloud's resignation and the USCCB's review, the CCHD accelerated its spending even as the collection contributions decreased.

The new data suggests either extreme over-spending, or a conscious decision to spend all funds before making a significant change of direction.

10/09/2024

Carmelites in Arlington, Texas, have reportedly ignored a conditional offer to restore their sacramental life.

Bishop Olson offered to restore the cloister’s sacramental life if the nuns disassociate themselves from Archbishop Viganò

10/09/2024

Greetings from Quito. Here's the Tuesday Pillar Post:

The Tuesday Pillar Post

07/09/2024

Why "sensory Masses" matter:

'We don’t have a right to exclude them.'

06/09/2024

Is there a clergy/lay disparity in sentences for Church financial crimes?

And why does it matter?

Do priests and religious get lighter sentences for financial crimes?

05/09/2024

"We are not talking about banning a Church for the actions of a few dozen collaborators. The requirement is to cut ties with those who inspired those collaborators."

"The only requirement is to sever ties with the Moscow Patriarch."

05/09/2024

The rift among Chaldean Catholic bishops is at a crucial juncture.

A rift among Chaldean Catholic bishops is at a crucial juncture

04/09/2024

When a Spanish parish planned a 'macro-weddding,' the whole town got involved. Check it out:

“To consecrate our union to God is a desire that’s always been in our hearts.”

03/09/2024

Here you go, it's The Tuesday Pillar Post:

"IVF is wrong, and so is this ramen"

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/ivf-is-wrong-and-so-is-this-ramen

02/09/2024

A party condemned by Germany’s bishops has just won a ‘historic’ state election victory. What happens next?

The bishops condemned the party, but it has just claimed a ‘historic’ election victory.

31/08/2024

“I want real relationship. I don't want a relationship with my computer, I don't want a relationship even with a book - I don't want distraction, I want connection.”

“I get to really be known. I get to experience even being loved in parts of me that are quite difficult.”

31/08/2024

A Canadian bishop is facing a Vatican-ordered probe, on charges that he failed to act when informed about an allegation of sexual assault against once-popular media personality Fr. Thomas Rosica.

Did Bishop Ronald Fabbro fail to act on a priest's abuse report?

30/08/2024

The Chaldean Catholic patriarch has called for penalties - even excommunication - against five bishops. Here's why:

Why the Chaldean Catholic patriarch might sanction his bishops

29/08/2024

Although the majority of Nicaraguan clergy continue opposing Ortega’s regime, the dictatorship has ecclesiastical supporters in high places.

How has Ortega achieved the tacit - or even public - support of a handful of local priests?

28/08/2024

Media figure Fr. Thomas Rosica has been accused of sexually assaulting a younger priest:

Media figure Fr. Thomas Rosica is accused of assaulting a priest

27/08/2024

This is a GREAT Pillar Post. We promise.

The Tuesday Pillar Post

27/08/2024

A growing number of U.S. dioceses have appointed chief operating officers. That move raises some questions.

26/08/2024

A Maduro critic gets a global stage:

A Maduro critic gets a global stage.

23/08/2024

A team of medical experts have concluded that the body of Sr. Wilhelmina Lancaster of Gower Abbey "lacks any detected features of decomposition."

Bishop Johnston released a statement on the former abbess of Gower Abbey after an investigation by a team of medical experts

22/08/2024

Until the last 25 years, convention prayers and the people who led them rarely drew much attention.

Catholic leaders have long been offering prayers at political conventions. But they haven't always attracted much attention.

21/08/2024

A Capuchin Franciscan has spent years pretending to be a doctor -- and European royalty.

Here's why:

A priest pretending to be a doctor, and royalty, raises money for non-existing medical clinics

20/08/2024

Here you go, it's The Tuesday Pillar Post

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/we-as-individuals-the-news-and-barry

20/08/2024

Two Ohio priests have legal custody of a two-year-old. What happens now?

Why two Steubenville priests have custody of a two-year-old

15/08/2024

Sources say staff, not members, shape both agenda and controversy at the Vatican's pro-life office:

Sources say staff, not members, shape both agenda and controversy at the Vatican's pro-life office

15/08/2024

Nigeria’s bishops’ conference has expressed “righteous indignation” at an “alarming increase” in liturgical abuses.

A letter issued on the Solemnity of the Assumption highlighted 12 specific liturgical abuses.

12/08/2024

This year saw just 57 new entries to Argentinian diocesan seminaries, a far cry from the 256 new entries in 1997.

The situation doesn’t seem poised to improve any time soon.

07/08/2024

“They are trying to finish the Diocese of Matagalpa.”

The Diocese of Matagalpa has been left largely without a diocesan curia or any major officials.

07/08/2024

Prosecutors are investigating whether Caritas Luxembourg lost around $67 million as a result of “fake president fraud.”

The charity was plunged into crisis after losing 61 millions euros.

07/08/2024

"With all the problems in the world, young people are seeking grounding and they don’t see religion as problematic anymore, it’s interesting again."

"Evangelization starts from within...it’s an inner life that overflows."