The Polish Bishops’ Conference clarified in a statement today that people who are in same-sex relationships “cannot receive a blessing” after the Vatican issued a contrary document approving blessi...

Bishop Marian Eleganti has responded to the Vatican declaration Fiducia supplicans by explaining the reasons why same-sex couples cannot be blessed. “The so-called magisterium of Francis, which is...

Communiqué of the Ukrainian Bishops' Conference on the Declaration of the Dicastery of the Faith "FIDUCIA SUPPLICANS" on the Pastoral Significance of Blessings The document of the Vatican's Dicastery...

“I am not going to bless even one homosexual union,” said the archbishop of Granada, Spain, José María Gil Tamayo, when asked about the application of the declaration Fiducia Supplicans on the...

The Catholic bishops of Zambia have instructed their dioceses that they are not to implement the Vatican’s recent document on “blessing” same-sex couples. The bishops noted in a statement issued...

The recently canceled Bishop of Tyler, Texas, His Excellency Joseph Strickland, is calling on Catholic bishops to resist Fiducia Supplicans, a document released earlier today by Pope Francis in...

Hundreds of East Texas Catholics gathered in downtown Tyler on Saturday morning for a prayer march in support of the former bishop of Tyler, Joseph Strickland. “We are not here to protest; no one is...

Two high-ranking California Catholic prelates released a joint pastoral letter upholding the true “nature of the human person” in opposition to radical gender ideology. The letter comes after the...

Bishop Joseph Stickland of Tyler, Texas, called out dissident pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin for blasphemously claiming that celebrating “Pride Month” is compatible with devotion to the Sacred...

The Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith has become a Dicastery of confusion. This is precisely what the Argentinean Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández promotes. Not only the confusion of the...

Bishop Joseph Strickland is once again condemning COVID jab mandates being pushed across the United States as a violation of Catholic teaching on free will and individual conscience rights. He also...

PASTORAL MESSAGE FROM THE PRELATE BISHOP OF MOYOBAMBA ON THE DECLARATION “ ASKING FOR TRUST ”, PUBLISHED BY THE DICASTERY OF THE DOCTRINE OF FAITH ON DECEMBER 18, 2023. Dear priests, consecrated life...

The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Nakuru Cleophas Oseso Tuka will not allow priests in the diocese to bless marriages between partners of the same sex. This comes at a time when thousands of...

Archbishop Viganò has responded to the Vatican’s declaration of schism and latae sententiae excommunication, saying that the “guilt” he is accused of confirms “the Catholic Faith I integrally...

A document obtained by the Bay Area Reporter reveals that San Francisco's archbishop issued supplemental instructions to the archdiocese's Catholic priests stating they can deny blessing same-sex...

Msgr. Charles Pope, pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Church in Washington, D.C., said he will not offer blessings of same-sex couples because it would “lead to confusion and scandal among the...

Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa. This powerhouse of the continent has a bright demographic future, and its population counts at least 30 million Catholics, most of whom attend weekly...

Why can't U.S. bishops do the same for anti-Catholic politicians? Members of Greek Parliament who voted to legalize gay marriage and the adoption of children by gay couples earlier this month have...

Dear Archbishop, I’m sure you expected nothing else from Jorge Bergoglio. I know that you know he has no authority whatsoever – so I’m not sure how this will effect you going forward- I hope you will...

Bishop Joseph Strickland issued an open letter to the faithful on Monday, November 27, 2023. Below is the full text. As I am sure you have heard by now, I have been removed as Bishop of the Diocese...

https://youtu.be/9xeVgpu9ZVY "They want my head on a platter." In today's homily, Fr. James Altman announced he has been asked to resign his position by his bishop, Bishop Joseph Callahan. As we all...

https://youtu.be/RWETLzSHK8Y?si=8rBxUPFcQZOxFvaJ In a homily giving on December 20, 2023, Fr. Chris Alar of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception explains what you need to know to adhere to the...

On December 21 Cardinal Wilfrid Napier posted on X (formerly known as Twitter): The “Fiducia Supplicans” debate lacks one essential word. Yet that word was the first on Jesus’ lips when he delivered...

The Conference of Catholic Bishops in Belarus has stated that they do not “intend to put into practice” the blessing of same-sex and “irregular” couples as proposed by the Vatican Declaration Fiducia...

When the devil tries to persuade us to sin, he emphasizes the supposed good of the evil action he wants us to do, while overshadowing the aspects that are necessarily contrary to God’s commandments....

The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference issued on December 22 an official pastoral statement clarifying the content of DDF document Fiducia Supplicans, since they recognize it to be causing...

After authorizing blessings for homosexual couples, the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, is facing backlash from multiple national churches and...

Most reverend John Kobina Louis, the Auxiliary Bishop of Accra Archdiocese has said Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) practices are an abomination to Ghanaian culture...

ARGENTINIAN CATHOLIC LAWYERS CORPORATION PETITION TO THE HOLY FATHER FOR LOVE OF THE TRUTH AND IN FIDELITY TO THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST The Catholic Lawyers Corporation of the Argentine...

The bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Angola and São Tomé (CEAST) have expressed “perplexity” about blessings to “irregular couples” and have determined that they should not be carried out in...

https://youtu.be/wyQANYO9D58?si=BV2OsX3btilo30sl Rev. Fr. George Ehusani in Reflections with John Cardinal Onaiyekan on "WE CANNOT BLESS SINFUL UNIONS." @ the Studio of Lux Terra Leadership Foundat...

Bishop Liam Cary of the Diocese of Baker, Oregon, has firmly rejected any openness to blessing couples in same-sex or otherwise “irregular unions” following the 2023 Vatican Declaration Fiducia...

Letter on Fiducia Supplicans, December 22, 2023 Friday of the Third Week of Advent Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, We have received a number of inquiries from the faithful concerning Fiducia...

I recently sent some questions to Cardinal Gerhard Müller regarding papal infallibility and the Cardinal’s recent words describing Pope Francis as having endorsed material heresy. The Cardinal was...

https://youtu.be/ri3FlLnQKHo?si=2QVsmRybgMuXC0jr Lesbian woman says ‘he wouldn't give me a cookie.’ A priest in Florida bit the forearm of a woman he says was desecrating the Eucharist in a Communion...

In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews reporter Maike Hickson, Cardinal Gerhard Müller discussed the attitude of some in the Vatican toward the Traditional Latin Mass following the Chartres...

Fathers Kevin Kennedy and Jerald Geronimo of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco announced they will not bestow blessings on 'couples in irregular unions, including same-sex...

NO BLESSING FOR HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES IN THE AFRICAN CHURCHES Synthesis of the responses from the African Episcopal Conferences to the Declaration Fiducia supplicans Dear brothers and sisters in the...

Declaration of the Bishops of Cameroon on homosexuality and the blessing of "homosexual couples". In the face of semantic abuses designed to distort the value of realities and the true meaning of the...

Petition Language - including hyperlinks to supporting details WHEREAS, Víctor Manuel Fernández (Tucho), head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), has failed in his duty to safeguard...

”We your Archbishops and Bishops, your spiritual guides of the Catholic Church in Côte d’Ivoire, reaffirm our attachment to the values ​​of the family, of the sacrament of marriage between a man and...

Three years ago I was among the first – and certainly the first Bishop – to denounce pandemic and vaccination fraud. Expressed with arguments that today emerge as true and well-founded are the...

For a million reasons, Fernandez has to go. For the sake of the future of the church, I urge my fellow American Catholics to make their voices heard in this regard. Whether this entails a collective...

A Spanish bishop has called on the Vatican to withdraw Fiducia Supplicans, citing the “chaos” it created. “In the face of so much chaos, we have enough signs to conclude that the solution is to...

https://youtu.be/fXjX_wn7xws?si=rLR94-VPH7Ibi5H_ Father Kirby, pastor of Our Lady of Grace Parish, Indian Land, South Carolina, offers a reflection on Fiducia Supplicans. Please pray for our faithful...

ON THE DECLARATION FIDUCIA SUPPLICANS - Our Lord is already too much offended. The Congregation of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer stands with Cardinal Müller, the bishops of Malawi, Kazakhstan,...

From the Diocese of Cleveland's website: The Church, through divine revelation, has been given the gift of knowing that the human person is a unity of both body and soul and that, body and soul, each...

The beloved former bishop of Tyler, Texas, Joseph Strickland, who was recently removed from his post by Pope Francis, has added his signature to the Filial Appeal published last Friday urging...

“It is c to impart a blessing on relationships, or partnerships, even stable, that involve sexual activity outside of marriage.” Cardinal Daniel Sturla, archbishop of Montevideo, Uruguay, said in a...

In a move that is against a Vatican document approved by the Pope Francis, Nairobi Archbishop Philip Anyolo has opposed the decision to allow Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples. In a statem...

As a strong and steady backlash to the Vatican’s declaration on blessings for same-sex couples continues to flow in from Catholic Bishops around the world, Bishop Athanasius Schneider is referring to...

The bishops of the ecclesiastical Province of Rennes have asked not to bless homosexual and irregular “couples”, but only individual people. This declaration constitutes an interesting step in the...

According to Church Militant sources, Tyler, Texas, bishop Joseph Strickland is currently undergoing a "apostolic visitation" from the Vatican's Congregation of Bishops. The immediate focus of the...

Former Tyler, Texas, Bishop Joseph Strickland and current San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone are among the first prominent clergy in the United States to express public support for...

The former prefect of the Vatican’s highest doctrine office, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, condemned U.S. President Joe Biden’s support for abortion, saying it is “infanticide” and that those promoting...

Cardinal Gerhard Müller has called the controversial Vatican declaration Fiducia Supplicans a “failed document” that needs to be “rewritten.” He said that “now the African churches, Catholic church...

Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah has accused Western bishops of worldliness and of succumbing to the temptation of “practical atheism” as they lose faith in the teachings of the Catholic Church. The...

An African cardinal who recently led the continent’s bishops in rejecting blessings for same-sex couples has now lashed out at the timing of the Vatican document that opened the door to such a move,...

We find ourselves at a strange moment in Church history when Archbishop Viganò is excommunicated swiftly while Theodore McCarrick remains unexcommunicated after years of his crimes against the Church...

A small Catholic college has produced 104 priests, in addition to other religious vocations, during its almost 50-year history. These 104 priests come from Christendom College’s alumni pool of just...

CLARIFICATION OF THE CONFERENCE OF BISHOPS OF TOGO FOLLOWING THE PUBLICATION OF THE DECLARATION FIDUCIA SUPPLICANS ON THE PASTORAL MEANING OF BLESSINGS The Bishops of Togo have followed closely the...

According to the criterion of this type of blessings, one could even bless an abortion clinic or a mafia group. With the Declaration Fiducia supplicans (FS) on the Pastoral Significance of Blessings,...

Bishops in the ecclesiastical province of Antilles and Guyana have issued their rejection of blessings for homosexual “couples” and couples in “irregular situations.” Published January 21, the...

At this time of crisis when Catholics are seeking strong bishops to defend the faith, most have to settle for lukewarm leaders like Bishop Barron. Robert Barron, bishop of the diocese of Winona-Roc...

ishop Joseph Strickland has called for the immediate removal of all images by Father Marko Rupnik from “all Catholic sites,” days after the Bishop of Lourdes shied away from removing the mosaics at...

Catholic Bishop Joseph Strickland has offered his insights into the challenges facing the American Catholic Church and stated that he believed that the problems facing the Church are paralleled by...

The Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan, in conjunction with Saint Mary’s Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider, have banned priests in the archdiocese from...

The Episcopal Conference of Malawi issued a directive on Tuesday forbidding the blessing of same-sex unions in the wake of confusion over a Vatican declaration allowing blessings “for couples of the...

Dear Friends, I am grateful for the invitation of Professor Massimo Citro della Riva to offer my greetings to the participants in the Health Holocaust Remembrance Day. You know well that I have never...

A Catholic priest in San Francisco published an open letter to Pope Francis accusing the pontiff of “hurting” his parish and ministry by promoting homosexuality and urging him to preach the Gospel...

Warning that the “Church is dying,” Robert Cardinal Sarah has issued a striking call to action for African Catholics to be the “defenders of the universality of faith” especially at the Synod on...

Shortly after Pope Francis opposed the possibility of an ordained female diaconate, two German-speaking cardinals publicly have said that only men can be ordained to the priesthood. “Women cannot be...

Two Eastern Catholic bishops have issued statements with in-depth theological and canonical reasons for their rejection of a controversial Vatican document on pastoral blessings for same-sex couples...

STATEMENT of H.E. Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America on the scandalous proclamation of March 31 as “Transgender visibility day” by “presid...

https://youtu.be/CVaktbflbwQ?si=xLGYfoi3Zy7LBY9s Excerpt of Bishop Strickland speaking at the 2024 Spiritual Warfare Conference. Videos from the conference available here.

Scandalous public commentary that misleads the faithful cannot go unanswered. Fr. James Martin is a high-profile dissenter of Catholic teaching regarding human sexuality. He recently posted a series...

The removal of Msgr. Strickland from the leadership of the diocese by Pope Francis, took place without a trial, in violation of canonical norms. Msgr. Torres received the same treatment in 2022. As...

A Catholic teacher was dismissed from his position at a California Catholic school after criticizing the Black Lives Matter organization on Twitter. Timothy Gordon, popular podcaster and author of...

In a statement released on March 2, the Roman Rite bishops of Russia stated: In view of the misunderstandings that have arisen around the declaration of Fiducia Supplicans, CCER considers it import...

https://youtu.be/yVt10eZMN1M Fr. James Altman responds to critics of his recent video, "You Cannot Be a Catholic and a Democrat." Nearly 100 years ago, St. John Henry Cardinal Newman said, “The...

Giving forthright comments on a number of current issues in the Catholic Church, Cardinal Raymond Burke condemned the practice of giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians, as well as noting...

Bishop Rob Mutsaerts, auxiliary bishop of s-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) in the Netherlands, is as outspoken as he is a loyal defender of traditional Church doctrine. After asking hard questions about...

One of the most influential Oriental Orthodox Churches has suspended theological dialogue with the Catholic Church and reaffirmed its opposition to “all forms of homosexual relationships,” in the...

Conservative Bishop Joseph Strickland, who was ousted from his Texas diocese by Pope Francis last year, has denounced a “corrupt Vatican.” “I urge all faithful Catholics to speak up, enough is...

Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka, Bishop of the diocese of Karonga, Malawi, delivered this powerful homily during the Christmas Vigil liturgy on December 24, 2023at St Anne's Parish (Chiluma). Bishop...

Why is the hierarchy so threatened by any critique of the Novus Ordo? The bishop of Covington, Kentucky removed from public ministry two beloved priests who offer the Traditional Latin Mass. Parish...

Abbé Janvier Gbénou (pen name: Father Jesusmary Missigbètò), who has frequently been in the news on account of his outspoken critiques of Pope Francis (see, e.g., here, here, and here) which earned...

NFL kicker and Super Bowl champion Harrison Butker has criticized Cardinal Timothy Dolan for his handling of the scandalous “transgender funeral” held in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. In a recent interv...

Jesuit Father James Martin, an LGBT advocate, affirmed Saturday his belief that two men can enter into a real marriage that must be recognized as such. Responding to Bill Donohue, president of the...

Editor’s note: Bishop Joseph Strickland has shared with LifeSiteNews a letter sent to him by Bishop Athanasius Schneider encouraging and thanking him for his witness to the Catholic faith. Bishop...

Bishop Athanasius Schneider sits down with John-Henry Westen in Rome to critically examine Pope Francis’ disastrous impact on Catholic doctrine. Bishop Schneider provides a how-to guide on demanding...

The president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria has stated that “there is no possibility of blessing same-sex couples or same-sex unions” following the Vatican’s December Declaration...

In your charity, please pause a moment today to say a prayer for the repose of the soul of George Neumayr, the intrepid Catholic reporter who passed away one year ago today. Eternal rest grant unto...