Crux: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Pope Francis and the Catholic Church have a “central role” in promoting religious liberty. Pompeo was speaking to Vatican News—the official news service of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication—ahead of the first Ministerial…

CNSNews.com, by Michael W. Chapman: During a talk before a group of Republicans in Florida recently, Fr. Michael Orsi, a Catholic priest, said that America’s founders were God-fearing men and women who understood that to have “a virtuous country, you…

AP News, by Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman, and Garance Burke: The visiting priests arrived discreetly, day and night. Stripped of their collars and cassocks, they went unnoticed in this tiny Midwestern town as they were escorted into a dingy warehouse…

CNSNews.com, by Michael W. Chapman: PinkNews, a popular online news source for the global LGBT+ community, praised one of Pope Francis’ new appointments for cardinal, Archbishop Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, Italy, stating that the Pope had “named a pro-LGBT+ bishop…

Church Militant, by Bradley Eli: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s recent testimony that Pope Francis is not acting on his knowledge of the Vatican’s young seminarians being sexually abused is part of a larger pattern of cover-up that has emerged from…

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Detroit Free Press, by Niraj Warikoo: As part of the state’s investigation into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Friday criminal sexual conduct charges against five priests in Michigan.  “Some of these clergy … preyed on…

CNA , by Hannah Brockhaus: The Catholic Church wants to continue to be an active and contributive member of Romanian society, Pope Francis told the president and authorities of the Eastern European country Friday. The Catholic Church “desires to contribute…

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