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- For Brooklyn, “Columbus” Day Comes Early – In NY Homecoming, Pope Taps Brennan to Succeed “The Czar”
  
  In the first Stateside move of the Vatican’s new working year, the most significant opening on the current US docket is off the table… and as Mets fans can always use good news, for once they’re in...
- Amid US Bench's Communion Clash, The "Holy Office" Flashes A Red Light
  
  As some US bishops advocate levying de facto sanctions on President Biden and other Catholic politicians for their support of legal abortion, the Holy See's distinct, but veiled skepticism over a...
- "A Child Can Teach Us How To Love" – Despite COVID and Curfews, Christus Natus Est
  
  Before anything else, especially amid all the sorrows, fears, loss and disorientation of a brutal year across the globe, Buon Natale a tutti – to one and all, a Blessed Christmas... may all its light,
- "The Poor Are The Center of The Gospel" – At Vatican "Festivus," The Church's Choice: "The Docility of the Shepherds, or the Defensiveness of Herod"
  
  Fifteen years (less a day) since Benedict XVI revolutionized the Roman Pontiff's Christmas "greeting" to the leaders of his Curia – transforming the holiday pleasantry into a Pope's ultimate...
- Whether you’ve been waiting three decades or just three weeks for this, the “mountaintop” is at hand. From 4pm Rome (10am US ET), the livefeed of a Public Consistory like no other – from the Altar of...
- Fearing "Attack" On "Fundamental Values," The Bishops Warn Biden's White House
  
  As the US bishops face a moment unseen in most of their lifetimes – the nation's election of a Catholic to the Presidency – the issue of Joe Biden's faith emerged by surprise at today's public close...
- On Day Two, The "Viruses" Take Center Stage
  
  Set to begin at 1pm Eastern, this final day of a virtual – and heavily curtailed – USCCB Plenary will be underpinned by what've arguably been the two key threads of American life in 2020: the bench's...

National Catholic Register
- Be Salt, and Shine the Light!
  
  In the footsteps of the Blessed Mother, the world needs us to be what we were chosen to be. User’s Guide to Sunday, Feb. 5
- Bishop Barron: Minnesota’s New Abortion Law is ‘The Worst Kind of Barbarism’
  
  Bishop Robert Barron Bishop Robert Barron spoke out against Minnesota's new abortion law after it passed Jan. 31, 2023. ‘Basically, it eliminates...
- Pope Francis on World Day for Consecrated Life: Religious Have ‘Special Role’ in the Church
  
  Pope Francis greets the crowd at his Sunday Angelus address on Jan. 29, 2023. Pope Francis’ message was read at the beginning of a Mass for...
- Father James Martin’s ‘Irresponsible’ Take on Marriage: Catholic Priests Call for Clarity
  
  Register File/Official Portrait (L-R) Jesuit Father James Martin and Pete Buttigieg, secretary of the Department of Transportation under President Joe...
- Religious Freedom ‘Under Assault’ Across the World, Leaders Testify at Summit
  
  Peter Pinedo/CNA Former assistant secretary of state Robert Destro discusses the need for religious freedom. Pictured from left, Imam Talib Shareef of...
- Pope Francis to Priests in Congo: Bring People Jesus, Who ‘Heals the Wounds of Every Heart’
  
  Elias Turk Speaking in Our Lady of Congo Cathedral in Kinshasa on Feb. 2, 2023, Pope Francis encouraged priests and religious to continue to bring the...
- Pope Francis Kissed His Feet. Who Is the Cowboy-Hat-Wearing President of South Sudan?
  
  Pope Francis greets South Sudanese president Salva Kiir at the Vatican, April 11, 2019. Kiir said his 2019 meeting with Pope Francis was...
News from the Vatican
- Pope taps American to head Vatican’s powerful Dicastery for Bishops
  
  Pope Francis has tapped Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago native who currently leads the Diocese of Chiclayo in Peru, to take over the Dicastery for Bishops.
- In Congo, South Sudan, Pope will see the Church on the frontlines
  
  Pope Francis heads to the war-torn African nations of the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan this week, where the church has long been on the frontlines of relief efforts amid war, poverty...
- Pope heads to battered Congo, South Sudan as a herald of peace
  
  Pope Francis will further cement his legacy as an advocate for the suffering and marginalized this week as he heads to Africa for the fourth time, visiting the ravaged nations of the Democratic...
- Pope’s chief of staff could undercut star witness in Vatican’s ‘trial of the century’
  
  Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra’s testimony is considered especially crucial to the defense case, since theoretically it could undercut the credibility of the star witness for the prosecution, Italian...
- Pope criticizes German reform process as ‘ideological’ and ‘made by elites’
  
  In a new, wide-ranging interview with the Associated Press, Pope Francis spoke out on several hot-button issues such as abuse and relations with China and called the ongoing ‘Synodal Path’ reform...
- Vatican, German bishops spar over proposal for new ‘Synodal Council’
  
  In the latest development amid an ongoing showdown between the Vatican and the German bishops, three top Vatican officials nixed the proposal for a new legislative body governing the church in...
- Key papal ally says divisions in the church nothing new, can be healthy
  
  Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, a top papal aide and organizer of Pope Francis’s Synod of Bishops on Synodality, has said current tensions in Catholicism are nothing to worry about, but that...