During an interview with Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle Thursday, Vance was asked to weigh in on Pope Leo XIV’s remarks on immigration, in which he said, “I think every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter.” “You may not know it, judging purely from the comments of some people on social media, but the Catholic Church’s views on this are actually quite clear,” Vance said. Vance, a practicing Catholic, characterized the Catholic Church’s teachings on immigration as “you must treat immigrants humanely” while acknowledging that “every nation has the right to control its borders.” “How you strike that balance is very important,” said Vance. “There’s a lot of room there to actually control your own borders for the sake of your own people.” Asked by reporters to weigh in on U.S. immigration policy earlier this week, the pope claimed that “No one has said that the United States should have open borders.” Vance said he agreed with the pontiff’s opposition to …
In a blog post published on his personal website this week, 93-year-old retired Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen has issued yet another sharp critique of the Synod on Synodality and the late Pope Francis. Francis left behind “chaos and division,” His Eminence said. “Our greatest hope is that Pope Leo will unite the Church on the foundation of truth, rallying us all to the mission of evangelization. We must offer our prayers and sacrifices for Pope Leo.” Zen has not been shy about sharing concerns about the synodal process. After Francis’ death, His Eminence warned electors ahead of the conclave that the Church faces a “matter of life and death” as she grapples with it. In a commentary published in February 2024, His Eminence said it was his hope that “this Synod on ‘Synodality’ can be successfully concluded.” In his commentary this week, Zen worried that the Catholic Church has “become like the Anglican Church” and that it is seemingly “committing suicide by assimilating with” …
A former Catholic priest abused his position at a church in Epsom to groom and sexually abuse a young boy. Anthony White, who was known as Father Tony, used his position within St Joseph’s Church and involvement with clubs to select and groom the boy when he was in the first years of secondary school in the late 1980s. Over the course of several years, White subjected the boy to repeated sexual abuse at his home but manipulated him into silence by blaming him for what had happened. White, now 67, was jailed for 10 years in 2022 for the sexual abuse and rape of another young boy in the 1990s when he was an assistant priest at a St John the Evangelist Church in Horsham, West Sussex. The Epsom survivor saw the press coverage of White’s 2022 conviction and found the courage to approach Sussex Police about the abuse he had suffered. On November 4, White was sentenced to a further three years’ imprisonment after a Guildford Crown Court jury found him guilty of indecent assault of a boy …
If I were to sum up in one word what I experienced when I read the “Special Message” on immigration released on November 12, 2025, by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, it would be “abandoned.” I felt abandoned as an immigrant, a naturalized American, and a Catholic because that statement showed that the Catholic bishops of America cared more about illegal aliens and criminals than struggling legal immigrants, American citizens, the Catholics they are supposed to be shepherding, and the disorder and existential crisis from which our society is suffering. “As pastors, we the bishops of the United States are bound to our people by ties of communion and compassion in Our Lord Jesus Christ, the bishops said. “We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement.” By disingenuously advocating for illegal aliens, whitewashing it under the label of immigration, the bishops have undermined …
It's easy to figure out why... LEGAL immigrants pay their own way and don't need NGOs (like the "catholic nu-church" operates as) to get govt. grants & funding to provide services for them.
A coalition of Catholic clergy and sisters filed suit Wednesday (Nov. 19) after federal officials blocked them from entering the Broadview detention center to offer pastoral care and Communion. For more than a decade, Broadview had been a place where Catholic sisters prayed with detainees each week. That practice, rooted in the persistence of the late Mercy Srs. JoAnn Persch and Pat Murphy, ran without incident. But in recent months, faith leaders say their calls, emails and in-person requests to follow protocols of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were ignored. The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, or CSPL, represented by attorneys Tom Geoghegan and Patrick V. Dahlstrom, now argues that ICE’s refusal violates the First Amendment, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and other federal protections. CSPL is a Catholic coalition of more than 50 parishes, religious orders, universities and community organizations focused on …
I bet my lunch these same "priests" like Cupich actually HATE Eucharistic adoration if practiced by Catholic in the pews! I know, been there when pastors found it "problematic" to have Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and glibly told the faithful: "The [N.O.] Mass is all you need."
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, during a Q&A session at the 2025 Call to Holiness Conference in Michigan with exorcist Father Chad Ripperger, asserted that it is “problematic” and “not pastoral” for bishops to place restrictions on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM). Müller was responding to a question about why the Church gives the bishops the authority to restrict the celebration of the Mass according to the 1962 missal. The German prelate emphasized that bishops should respect the faithful who continue to be devoted to the TLM because the liturgical renewal proposed at the Second Vatican Council has not been completely successful. Müller further stressed that it’s problematic for bishops, who appear to be more concerned about liturgical uniformity than the unity of the faithful in believing the doctrines of the Church, to restrict the celebration of the ancient Roman rite that nourishes the faith of so many Catholics. His entire answer is viewable in the link below from …
The past week has been buzzing with rumors to the effect that Leo XIV has instructed the Dicastery for Divine Worship to issue “extensions” on the TLM whenever bishops ask for them. In this way, as Kevin Tierney explains, he has begun the practical repeal of And yet… even if the rumor is true (the nuncio to Great Britain has affirmed it with a classic non-denial), it still means that the fate of the TLM is left latent schism”—remain official and operative. Which brings me to the point of this post. Very often people will ask, as I myself asked for years: “Why in the world would the Church’s leaders persecute some of the most faithful Catholics—those who form the TLM communities?” The answer is not an agreeable one, but sometimes we must take bitter medicine in order to get well. Truth can be the bitterest of medicines. And of all the sicknesses in the Church, denial of reality is one of the most widespread and most unacknowledged. When this sickness is not diagnosed, the sufferer …