The paper also noted that baptismal entries can be used in civil proceedings, giving the examples of Ireland, where a baptism ...

On July 31, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent a letter to the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, demanding Florida’s Catholic schools allow religious exemptions for vaccine ...

Amid a growing tide of debate about the use of generative AI in the Church, a New Jersey bishop rescinded last week what was ...

Zen and several other former trustees were convicted over their connections to the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which offered support for those “arrested, injured, or affected” by the 2019 civil ...

Hong Kong’s appeals court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by Cardinal Joseph Zen against his 2022 conviction in relation to ...

A six-year dispute between the Spanish Diocese of Barbastro-Monzón and Opus Dei over a Marian image at the shrine of ...

Just one month ahead of a global meeting of bishops in the Vatican on Amoris laetitia, some episcopal leaders have told The Pillar that they have not received information about what to expect or how ...

Pope Leo XIV issued on Saturday a reform to the Code of Canons for Eastern Churches, the common legal framework for the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches sui iuris. The new law creates a mechanism for the ...

The Bewusst Wählen! initiative, spearheaded by the local Bishop Gerhard Feige, is appealing to the more than 2 million ...

The first meeting of the German Synodal Conference, originally planned for November, has been postponed indefinitely, because ...

Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar’s daily newsletter. I’m Luke Coppen and I aim to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and comment. 📜 Today’s readings: Wednesday ...

Luke is joined by Dr. Sebastian Ostritsch to talk about the development of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, its ...