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August 2018

August 28, 2018

Swiss Diocese Slams Bishop For Linking Abuse to Gays

"Intolerable" and "unacceptable". With these reproaches the Swiss Diocese of St. Gallen has condemned the...

August 09, 2018

Italian Church Decries “Massacre” of Exploited Migrant Workers

The Italian Church has condemned in the strongest possible terms the deaths of 16 migrant...

August 06, 2018

Swiss Bishop: I Don’t Believe in “God of Yore”

Three days after the Pope raised the ire of conservatives by reversing the centuries-old teaching...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

Croatian Bishops Blame Germany for Migrant “Chaos”

The Catholic Bishops of Croatia have denounced the fact that stronger EU nations, such as...

July 19, 2018

Hungarian Bishop Schools “Christian” PM On True Gospel Compassion

For those in the West who divinize anti-migrant Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as the...

July 16, 2018

Spanish Bishops Warn Education Reform Will Bring “Dictatorship”

Spain's Catholic bishops are warning of a return to a "totalitarian dictatorship" after the country's...

July 12, 2018

The Secrets of the French Church’s “Gay Expert”, Tony Anatrella

By Cameron Doody and Hendro Munsterman Monsignor Tony Anatrella was widely considered the official "gay...

July 02, 2018

Communion for Protestants Now Reality in German Catholic Church

The Archbishop of Paderborn has become the first of the German bishops to put into...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Austrian Bishops Slam Move to Extend Working Hours

The Austrian Bishops' Conference has blasted proposed changes to the country's Working Hours Act as...

June 18, 2018

Irish Bishops Take Two Steps Forward for Life, One Step Back

After the people of Ireland voted last month to legalize abortion, the Irish bishops have...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Austrian Church Seeks “Seriousness” and “Credibility” with Ethical Investments

The Catholic Church of Austria has made a choice for ethics over economic gain in...

May 24, 2018

New Bulgarian Religion Funding Law “Sad Reminder of Communist Past”

The leaders of Bulgaria's three biggest political parties have drafted a bill on religious affairs...

May 21, 2018

Proxy Battle of Catalonian Independence Leads to Church “Rebellion”

The war for Catalonian independence continues to take a heavy toll on the Churches in...

May 16, 2018

Bishop Takes Down Cardinal Eijk: “Pope Francis Doesn’t Sow Confusion”

By Cameron Doody and Hendro Munsterman The leader of The Netherlands' largest Catholic diocese has...

May 14, 2018

Kasper on Intercommunion: “One Cannot Ask of Protestants What is Asked of Catholics”

Just days after the Archbishop of Hamburg, Stefan Hesse, affirmed that Pope Francis has given...

May 03, 2018

Nuns Shame Spanish Bishops in Country’s #MeToo Moment

The acquittal on rape charges of five men who sexually assaulted an 18 year-old girl...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

Czech Bishops Blackmail City Council Over “Blasphemous” Play

October this year marks the 100th anniversary of the independence of the Czech Republic from...

April 23, 2018

French, Spanish Bishops Celebrate End of Terrorist Group ETA

The news that the Basque separatist group ETA is to dissolve after a sixty-year reign...

April 19, 2018

Maltese Bishop Slams “Blatant Incoherence” of “Stale” Church

"I wish that a certain category of Christians, in particular those in the inner circles...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

French Bishops Double Down on Opposition to Euthanasia

On end-of-life issues, the 118 French bishops that met in their Spring Assembly last week...

March 15, 2018

German Bishop “Surprised and Terrified” by Far-Right Hatred

"Xenophobia, racism and naked hatred are not legitimate expressions of opinion, but attacks on the...

March 12, 2018

Austrian Church Denounces Kurz’s “Dismantling of Welfare State”

What did Pope Francis and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz talk about in their audience last...

March 05, 2018

German Diocese to Take Brave Step of Massive Parish Closings

The Diocese of Trier in Germany will reduce its number of parishes from 172 to...

March 01, 2018

Italian Church Scrambles to Stop Racist Salvini

Swift and harsh have been the Catholic reactions to the spectacle of Matteo Salvini, head...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Intercommunion: The Humbling of the German Bishops

It is highly significant that the two main outcomes of the German bishops' fall assembly...

February 22, 2018

“Rosary to the Borders” Sickness Spreads to France

Two opposing sectors of the French Catholic Church have organized activities for the coming weeks...

February 19, 2018

Catalan Bishops Reaffirm “Moral Legitimacy” of Independence Push

In the midst of the political paralysis brought on by the Spanish central government's ongoing...

January 2018

January 11, 2018

Archbishop Aupetit of Paris: A Contradiction in Terms?

In all the reports I've read about the new Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, one...

January 04, 2018

‘The Economist’ and the Left-Right Divide in the European Church

An interesting claim last week by The Economist: "Clergy are colliding with Christian soldiers across...

December 2017

December 04, 2017

Church in Milan Seeks to Balance Tradition, Multiculturalism

Two months after taking possession of the see the new Archbishop of Milan, Mario Delpini,...