Catholic News
- Bishop appointed for troubled English diocese (Vatican Press Office)Pope Leo XIV has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Nicholas Hudson of Westminster as bishop of Plymouth. Over the past two years, the troubled diocese has seen the appointment of Canon Christopher Whitehead as bishop; the announcement that his ordination would not take place amid an investigation; the appointment of Bishop Philip Moger, a Southwark auxiliary, as […]
- Cardinal Menichelli dies at 86 (EWTN Vatican)Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli, created a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2015, died on October 20 at the age of 86, following a long illness. Ordained to the priesthood in 1965, Menichelli was appointed archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, Italy, in 1994 and archbishop of Ancona-Osimo in 2004. He retired in 2017. With Cardinal Menichelli’s passing, there are […]
- Vatican publishes Pope Francis's foreword to book by Father Gustavo Gutiérrez (Vatican News (Italian))The Vatican has published the late Pope Francis’s foreword to the last work of Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP, the father of liberation theology. Father Gutiérrez died last year; the book has been published posthumously. “Throughout his long life, Gustavo Gutiérrez was a faithful servant of God and a friend of the poor,” Pope Francis wrote. […]
- Cardinal Cupich links liturgical changes to Vatican II's teaching on the poor (Vatican News)Vatican News has published an article by Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago on the relationship between the Second Vatican Council’s teaching on the poor and the postconciliar liturgical changes. “The renewal of our worship was pursued in keeping with the Council Fathers’ desire to present to the world a church defined not by the trappings […]