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6 days ago | 
cruxnow.com | Christopher Altieri |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen
Sexual abuse survivors presented more than thirty letters to Vatican officials last week, calling for reform of the Church’s practices and approach to accompaniment of victims at the outset of Pope Leo XIV’s reign.
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2 weeks ago | 
cruxnow.com | Christopher Altieri |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen
Pope Leo XIV met with the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCPM) on Thursday of last week, in what was arguably the most significant meeting of Leo’s pontificate to date and almost certainly the most sensitive. Leo met with the Commission for the whole of an hour – twice as much time as had been allotted for the meeting in the pope’s busy Thursday schedule – and pushed back a meeting with the Secretariat of State. The meeting with the PCPM was behind closed doors.
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1 month ago | 
cruxnow.com | Andrew Dampf |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Christopher Altieri
ROME — It was fitting that when Pope Leo XIV was elected, the Italian Open tennis tournament was being played just up the road from the Vatican. Because tennis is the sport that the first American pope likes to play. “I consider myself quite the amateur tennis player,” Leo, the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost, said in a 2023 interview with the Augustinian Order after taking over the Vatican’s powerful Dicastery for Bishops following years as a missionary in Peru.
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1 month ago | 
cruxnow.com | Christopher Altieri |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen
In case you hadn’t heard, the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV to succeed Pope Francis to the See of Peter. Born Robert Francis Prevost, the Augustinian missionary priest who served as prior general of his Augustinian order in Rome and was bishop of Chiclayo in Peru, came late to the Vatican – in 2023 – when the recently departed Pope Francis made him prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and gave him the red hat.
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1 month ago | 
cruxnow.com | Colleen Barry |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Christopher Altieri
SOAVE, Italy — The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a group of students at an international Catholic school in Rome. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — confirmed the Marymount International School 9th graders, usually 14 or 15 years old, in a Mass on May 11, 2024.
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1 month ago | 
cruxnow.com | Matt Sedensky |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Christopher Altieri
A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American pontiff, the memes, doctored images and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago’s pizza and more loaded than its hot dog, seemingly irresistible to comics and commoners alike. Stained-glass windows depicting a dunking Michael Jordan? A change in canon law to make ketchup-topped frankfurters a sin? Cameos in “The Bear”?
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2 months ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Christopher Altieri |Carrie Gress
Pope Francis listens to a question from a journalist aboard his flight from Athens, Greece, to Rome Dec. 6, 2021. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)Pope Francis, who said he never wanted to be earthly head of the Catholic Church and frequently governed as though he were a simple parish priest, is dead. The 265th successor to St. Peter the Apostle exchanged time for eternity at 7:35am Rome time on 21 April, of complications arising from a respiratory infection.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
whatweneednow.substack.com | Christopher Altieri
“There’s going to be a fight,” my father said, “as soon as the puck drops.” He wasn’t speaking to me or my brothers and sisters (or my mom), but for the benefit of friends sitting just behind us at Madison Square Garden on January 16th, 1992. Our friends were from our neighborhood and were new to hockey. This was their first NHL game, if memory serves, and they were seated behind us quite by chance. We were and are a hockey family—my family bleeds Broadway Blue.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |Christopher Altieri
U.S. bishops applaud Supreme Court ruling on domestic violence gun law By Daniel Payne for CNA Christian Defense Coalition Director Rev. Patrick Mahoney holds a sign that reads “Abusers Should NOT Own Guns!” outside the Supreme Court on June 21, 2024, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesCNA Staff, Jun 24, 2024 / 12:38 pm (CNA).
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Christopher Altieri |Carl Olson
Why is the Vatican still featuring artwork by disgraced Rupnik? It is getting more and more difficult to imagine how the Vatican types from Pope Francis on down could possibly mean it when they say they do care about victims or about justice for them in the Church. Vatican News page for the Solemnity of St. Joseph.
