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At 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, May 31, a U.K. community known as the Marian Franciscans ceased to exist, in terms of the Church’s canon law.The friars were given oversight of St. Mary’s Church in Gosport, southern England, in 2015. Credit: Hassocks5489/wikimedia CC0 1.0.The Marian Franciscans announced Ma...

Hey sports fans,It’s the ninth Tuesday in ordinary time, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post.Today’s the anniversary of a memorable moment in American history, from all the way back in 1763, when native tribes in the American midwest had banded together to fight a little revolution of their o...

The Archdiocese of Braga announced last week that a canonical process involving Father Albino Meireles, accused of child abuse, had concluded with his dismissal from the clerical state. The announcement is the latest development in a process that has divided observers over whether the Church has don...

A German Catholic youth organization has voted to retain St. Thomas More as its patron after a two-year review of his suitability.A portrait of St. Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger. Public Domain.The Katholische Junge Gemeinde adopted a resolution at its May 27-31 annual national assembly ke...

An Andorran minister said Monday that the decriminalization of abortion in the country will be approved before parliamentary elections are held next year, amid negotiations with the Catholic Church in the principality.Ladislau Baró, Minister for Institutional Relations, Education and Universities.Th...

The new patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church reflected last week on the power of faith amid fear during the homily at his installation Mass last week, and outlined several “principal features” for the future the Baghdad-based Eastern Catholic Chaldean Church.The May 29 installation of Patriarch...

The Chinese government is reportedly using state-sanctioned Church bodies to promote a contentious new law aimed at ethnic minorities.Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Credit: 三猎/wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0.The online magazine Bitter Winter published a June 2 article documenting an event...

The College of Cardinals’ extraordinary consistory in June will discuss the situation of local Churches, the doctrine of just war, societal changes and the desire for God in light of Magnifica humanitas, and the next steps in the synodal process, the Vatican has announced.Cardinals at the inaugurati...

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow issued a decree transferring Metropolitan Hilarion from the Czech Republic to Brazil Wednesday, the same day Czech media reported that a white substance found in Hilarion’s car was confirmed to be cocaine.Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev). Credit: Kremlin.ru/wikimedia CC BY...

An appeals court in Canada has rejected a request by the Congregation of St. Basil to dismiss a lawsuit against the congregation and its prominent member Fr. Thomas Rosica.The Court of Appeal for Ontario issued a June 4 decision upholding a lower court’s ruling that the case against Rosica may move...

Yo!Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen is going to be beatified September 24, in the city of St. Louis.Ed and I are going. We want you to come, too. We want as many Catholics to be there as possible.So we’ll be leading a pilgrimage to the beatification, and then to Fulton Sheen’s hometown of Peoria, t...

Happy Friday friends,And a very happy feast of Corpus Christi, whether you celebrated yesterday or will on Sunday.For those who may not realize, the feast as strictly instituted falls on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. Though its transfer to the next Sunday is almost universally effected, the fea...