Sitemap - 2024 - The Pillar
Cincinnati priests compete to meet parishioners in home blessing challenge
Bonus: A frank and unguarded meeting of minds
Ep. 160: The AI that launched a thousand dunks
The Friday Pillar Post - April 26, 2024
CCHD head resigns; program facing financial woes
‘Our power is prayer’ — Gaza’s pastor on 6 months of war
What you pray for, virtual priesthood, and an Eastern mystery
Starting Seven: April 26, 2024
News Roundup— Week of April 25
The impossible synodal debate on ‘deaconesses’
Starting Seven: April 25, 2024
Church in South Korea sees 24% rise in baptisms
‘I just have to take my lumps’
Bishops defend German-born prelate after police raid
Starting Seven: April 24, 2024
The Tuesday Pillar Post - April 23, 2024
‘Remember’: New ministry serves Catholics grieving a suicide loss
Diocese removes AfD politician from church post
'Me at the zoo,' the news, and 'his face in every flower'
Starting Seven: April 23, 2024
Texas Carmelites reject oversight of Vatican-appointed federation
Vatican state can be sued for individuals’ abuse of office, Francis decrees
‘Remember’: New ministry serves Catholics grieving a suicide loss
Starting Seven: April 22, 2024
'You have to get off your sofa' - Young French Catholics restore wayside crucifixes
The Friday Pillar Post - April 19, 2024
Eucharistic Congress scales back numbers, confident on finances
Why India’s bishops want to get out the vote
A blessing, jobs for the boys, and a Roman holiday
Starting Seven: April 19, 2024
News Roundup— Week of April 18
The complicated future of Nicaraguan bishop appointments
Starting Seven: April 18, 2024
Swiss bishop defends attending predecessor’s SSPX funeral
Starting Seven: April 17, 2024
Financial crimes trial witness named supreme court prosecutor
The Tuesday Pillar Post - April 16, 2024
DC Knights call for Rupnik art removal
Why did Cardinal Sako return to Baghdad?
Benedict's birthday, and Roman jalapeños
Starting Seven: April 16, 2024
Accused priest faces Sisters of Life allegations
Vatican protests French court ruling on nun’s dismissal
Vatican court tosses criminal complaint against journalist
Starting Seven: April 15, 2024
Accused priest faces Sisters of Life allegations
Ep. 159: It’s all about synodality, isn’t it?
Iraqi cardinal returns to Baghdad after 9-month absence
The Friday Pillar Post— April 12, 2024
Why is Pope Francis embracing the patriarchy (of the West)?
Remembering miracles, a gambling man, and radical reality
Starting Seven: April 12, 2024
Vatican prosecutor files defamation charges against Italian journalist
News Roundup— Week of April 11
What’s the Swiss Church’s new ‘synodality commission’?
Starting Seven: April 11, 2024
How Pope Francis is reshaping the Church in western Ireland
Why is Pope Francis embracing the patriarchy (of the West)?
Starting Seven: April 10, 2024
The Tuesday Pillar Post - April 9, 2024
Florida woman facing trial for $700k parish theft
Which religious order has the most U.S. bishops?
Mumbai martyrs, the news, and the episcopal Eclipse
Bishop’s former secretary claims ‘hush money’ payments made to alleged victims
Live updates: 'Dignitas infinita' emphasizes 'ontological dignity'
Ep. 158: Dignitas infinita and umbraphiles
Wisconsin bishop charges Viganó with illicit ordination, defamation
The Friday Pillar Post - April 5, 2024
‘We don’t just speak for ourselves’ - Priest prepares for Vatican synod session
Becciu tells cardinals ‘media pillory’ made him skip Chrism Mass
Save the date, parlor games, and the art of the meal
Cardinal Ouellet found liable for religious dismissal
Augustine Institute: Nearby nuclear pollution ‘not a risk’
The faith of the next generation
USCCB ecumenical committee recommends further study of Catholic-Evangelical document
The Tuesday Pillar Post - April 2, 2024
'Easter people', the news, and the 'tion' season
What will the new DDF document say?
Blessed Triduum, 'this fair and radiant triumph'
‘Because it is real’: Bishop Erik Varden on Holy Week
Chaldean patriarchate cancels Easter events amid government stand-off
Starting Seven: March 28, 2024
Bonus: Ronnie Johnson’s whistle
Ep. 157: Visions of the good life
Adult baptisms ‘boom’ in France and Belgium
Starting Seven: March 27, 2024
Belgian church with lay-led liturgies loses parish status
Withdrawn English episcopal nomination triggered multiple investigations
Why a Louisiana excommunication is a canonical ‘hard case’
The Tuesday Pillar Post - March 26, 2024
Double duty, the bridge, and our Maundy mandate
Women’s health meets Theology of the Body at Illinois parish event for teens
Starting Seven: March 26, 2024
Cardinal Grech sets out vision for ‘rainbow’ synodal Church
Why a Louisiana excommunication is a canonical ‘hard case’
What happened at the Rome-Germany talks?
Catholic schools and an ‘integrated life of faith’
Starting Seven: March 25, 2024
Bonus: Baseball, bonding and buffets
Ep. 156: Secret societies and synod on synodality pt. 55
Bonus: A conversation with Francis X. Maier
The Friday Pillar Post - March 22, 2024
French bishops’ conference blueprint revised after Vatican scrutiny
Eucharistic Congress cautioned speaker over ‘Catholic Prayer for Trump’ event
A perfect week, ironic invites, and the social network
Starting Seven: March 22, 2024
News Roundup— Week of March 21, 2024
Belgian bishop laicized 14 years after admitting abuse
Starting Seven: March 21, 2024
On Vatican trial, Pope 👏 Francis 👏 didn't 👏 'change the law' 👏
Ukrainian bishop: ‘Evil has a human face’
Starting Seven: March 20, 2024
Is Germany’s ‘synodal committee’ dead or alive?
On Vatican trial, Pope 👏Francis 👏 didn't 👏 'change the law' 👏
Rome’s storied ‘Orientale’ enters merger
The Tuesday Pillar Post - March 19, 2024
The '75 NACers, St. Joseph, and me
Starting Seven: March 19, 2024
Talking to the Copts: With dialogue off, who are Coptic Christians anyway?
Michigan priest who stole from priests gets prison term
Is Germany’s ‘synodal committee’ dead or alive?
Starting Seven: March 18, 2024
'The Holy Spirit is doing something' - How Awake aims to support survivors
Ep. 155: The great metropolitan turnover
The Friday Pillar Post - March 15, 2024
Belize awaits new bishop after puzzling resignation
A man named ‘Anne’, synod everlasting, and she’s a lady
Starting Seven: March 15, 2024
Synod announces new study groups, ‘permanent forum’ on synodality
News Roundup— Week of March 14
‘Doing something different’ — The future of rural ministry in Spain
Starting Seven: March 14, 2024
Indiana priest sues diocese for defamation
Hong Kong bill threatens confessional seal, warn advocates
Italian prosecutors to bring charges against Becciu’s brother
The Tuesday Pillar Post - March 13, 2024
Starting Seven: March 13, 2024
The USCCB’s Good Friday pastoral note
Polish bishops to elect new leader, tackle Church-state ties
St. Fina, ‘Cabrini’, and bishop birthdays
The USCCB’s Good Friday pastoral note
Starting Seven: March 12, 2024
Rupnik still listed as Vatican consultant as DDF trial continues
Pope Francis’ ‘white flag’ comments echo ‘Kremlin propagandists’ say Ukrainian Catholics
Pope Francis’ ‘white flag’ comments echo ‘Kremlin propagandists’ say Ukrainian Catholics
Starting Seven: March 11, 2024
Who will succeed Nicaragua’s Cardinal Brenes - and when?
The Friday Pillar Post - March 8, 2024
Ep. 154: Espionage and conclaves
NY priest status unclear after $270k parish theft
Laetare, spy games, and the moose penalty
New Zealand police end abuse probe into cardinal
Change ahead: What Spain's new episcopal leaders face
Charges against Australian bishop raise questions about ‘Vos estis’ statement
Church in Slovakia issues landmark abuse report
Italian prosecutors probe illegal data searches on Vatican trial defendants
The Order of Judith: ‘It’s ok as a Christian woman to leave abuse’
The Tuesday Pillar Post - March 5, 2024
Why are Syro-Malabar Catholics debating the ‘Filioque’ clause?
Lent's back nine, the laity, and Crazy
The Order of Judith: ‘It’s ok as a Christian woman to leave abuse’
Pope makes ‘minor’ changes to canonical supreme court
Portuguese priest laicized 30 years after murder and abuse convictions
Augustine Institute eyes Missouri move
The Friday Pillar Post— March 1, 2024
Who will be Spain’s next bishops’ conference president?
Copyrights and Confraternities: A history of ‘official’ American Scripture translations
Daffy people, big city problems, and media watch
Newfoundland Catholics win parish appeal, but future still uncertain
News Roundup— Week of February 29
How Poland became a ‘laboratory’ for ‘Vos estis’
Starting Seven: February 29, 2024
Newfoundland Catholics win parish appeal, but future still uncertain
Pillar TL;DR — this is exciting
Update: NY archdiocese arts center cancels ‘kinky’ sex workshops
Starting Seven: February 28, 2024
Should the next conclave vote less?
The Tuesday Pillar Post— February 27, 2024
Lamentations, some links, and ‘sink pizza’
Starting Seven: February 27, 2024
Why are Catholics being killed in Burkina Faso?
In Bishop Bradley, has Steubenville found its ‘template’?
The Year Without a Lent? Fasting and Abstinence in the Modern Age
Starting Seven: February 26, 2024
Ep. 152: Somebody sometimes has to say no
Polish bishops’ leader urges solidarity with protesting farmers
One minute on Mars, the road to nowhere, and looking the part
Starting Seven: February 23, 2024
News Roundup— Week of February 22
Amid funeral controversy, will Dolan watch the pitch?
German bishops take Rome letter seriously, says Bätzing
Vatican and victims address Rupnik scandal on anniversary of abuse summit
Starting Seven: February 22, 2024
Does India have enough Latin Catholic bishops?
Australian police arrest former Broome bishop in child abuse probe
The Catch-22 of Vatican City justice
Starting Seven: February 21, 2024
‘The importance of community’ — Dutch Bishop Hendriks on Christian hope
About that funeral … What happened at a controversial NYC liturgy last week?
The Congress, the news, and Francis' poverty
Starting Seven: February 20, 2024
‘The white coat and the cross’ - the witness of Dr. Lejeune
The ‘two speed Church’ agenda for the synod
Papal delegate to Foyers de Charité resigns
About that funeral … What happened at a controversial NYC liturgy last week?
Starting Seven: February 19, 2024
Rome says ‘nein’ to German bishops’ synodal committee vote
The elephant in Augsburg: Bishops to weigh synodal committee’s fate
Prayer time, indecent money, and crisis communications
Starting Seven: February 16, 2024
Ep. 151: The bad, the ugly and the banal
Milan archbishop to attend ‘dialogue’ seminar with Italian Freemasons
What if the Vatican actually goes broke?
Starting Seven: February 15, 2024
Bishop Varden: ‘By climbing we learn to pray’
Amid scandal, Strasbourg auxiliary bishop resigns for 'health reasons'
Who will be the next Polish bishops’ conference president?
Starting Seven: February 14, 2024
California dioceses to kneel at 'Lamb of God'
Bishop Varden: ‘By climbing we learn to pray’
Starting Seven: February 13, 2024
Syro-Malabar bishop demands 'exemplary action’ over elephant attack
Michigan priest convicted of stealing from priests
Starting Seven: February 12, 2024
The Church’s ‘other’ immigration problem
The parish at the top of the world
‘A Church that seeks the truth’: The making of the 1st global report on child protection
The other 49ers, the whole story, and the big show
Starting Seven: February 9, 2024
Ep. 150: An inspiration and a reorientation
‘One step forward?’ — How some American Catholics experience ‘Fiducia supplicans’
Starting Seven: February 8, 2024
‘A mountaintop moment’: How the Eucharistic Congress wants to unify the Church
India’s bishops: ‘Attacks on Christians now common’
The parish at the top of the world
Starting Seven: February 7, 2024
‘Cardinal Bigfoot’ and the return of la Suprema?
Catholics join battle for Poland's pro-life laws
Paul Miki, the news, and warmed nuts
Starting Seven: February 6, 2024
‘Barbie Jesus’ - Why Seville’s Holy Week poster is an international debate
Starting Seven: February 5, 2024
In LA, Gardens of Healing help abuse survivors reconnect with the Church
The Catholic Church’s bishop-elect problem
Candlemas(s), the hard way, and common crime
Starting Seven: February 2, 2024
Ep. 149: How many JD Flynn lectures is that?
Why is the DDF ‘clarifying’ its caseload, again?
Starting Seven: February 1, 2024
Seminary steps up security amid violence in Nigeria
Germany’s most populous diocese forecasts 2024 deficit
‘Isä Raimo’ - The bishop casting deep in frozen Finland
Starting Seven: January 31, 2024
Belgian Church official warns Vangheluwe case could mar papal visit
Bishop bowl bets, the news, and your prayers
Starting Seven: January 30, 2024
On USCCB Bible license fees, ‘the money is not the point’
Back in business? Vatican creates new Chinese diocese, names new bishops
Rocky start for Syro-Malabar leader as video surfaces
Starting Seven: January 29, 2024
Bonus: Therapy and group texts
Ep. 148: Obedience and communion
Archbishop Welby’s liturgical Roman holiday
Oblates mum on status of accused priest
Starting Seven: January 26, 2024
German bishops express burning concern over rise of AfD
Suspect arrested over killing of Spanish priest
Starting Seven: January 25, 2024
Vatican court rejects auditor's wrongful dismissal lawsuit
Priest’s strange death shocks Spanish city
Starting Seven: January 24, 2024
Capitol Latin Mass: ‘Traditional Catholics are not terrorists’
Vatican appeals court finds pre-seminary rector guilty of ‘corrupting minors’
‘Weaponization’ — House Speaker on FBI and ‘traditionalist’ Catholics
New Hampshire, 'abashed' silence, and smoking fast
Starting Seven: January 23, 2024
‘The plane’s going down’ — am I absolved, generally speaking?
Belgian Church fights order to erase baptismal entry
Starting Seven: January 22, 2024
Ep. 147: Smoots, Celsius and Harvard
Catholic families left homeless as Nigerian explosion kills 2, leaves 77 injured
Why a papal trip to Vietnam is now possible
Nienstedt case points to transparency tug of war
A march on Washington, a death in Venezuela, and a watch on the German border
Starting Seven: January 19, 2024
Polish Church leader offers controversial ‘humanitarian’ help to jailed politicians
Starting Seven: January 18, 2024
Second Argentine bishop in row resigns before installation
In Venezuela, activists cry foul after reported priest suicide
Starting Seven: January 17, 2024
Leaner, meaner, greener: Pope Francis updates Vatican business and contracting laws
Accept new liturgy, urges letter signed by new Syro-Malabar head
Starting Seven: January 16, 2024
Australian police raid former home of ‘sexual predator’ bishop
Seminarians helped fight Nigerian seminary blaze
Liechtenstein’s bishop pro tem resumes parliamentary Mass
‘An offense against God’ - Sisters say Vatican abuse response not enough
Starting Seven: January 15, 2024
Bishop Álvarez freed in Nicaragua, exiled to Vatican
Warming shelter at Wisconsin parish builds bonds of trust, community
The Vatican’s Ukraine peace mission is not over
Remember Rievaulx, these Churches, and the ‘Catholic vote’ con
Starting Seven: January 12, 2024
Concerns about CL culture persist after abuse allegations made public
Starting Seven: January 11, 2024
McCarrick case suspended in Wisconsin court
Pope confirms new Syro-Malabar leader’s election
Pope Francis' Fernández miscalculation?
Starting Seven: January 10, 2024
After SEEK, coming down from the 'mountaintop'
'That book', the Black Nazarene, and my grown-up marriage
Starting Seven: January 9, 2024
The Vatican’s ‘two Chinas’ problem
Who will be the Syro-Malabar Church’s next leader?
‘We all get the same thing out of SEEK’ - College conference attracts more than the campus set
Starting Seven: January 8, 2024
Nienstedt asks Holy See to clarify ‘imprudent’ actions in Vos estis findings
Camino sets new record as pilgrimages bounce back
‘We need Jesus Christ’ — Germans at SEEK look to spark renewal
'Vos estis' investigation finds Nienstedt behavior ‘imprudent’ but not canonical crime
Working the feast, everything is (not) fine, and it’s a wonderful life, really
Starting Seven: January 5, 2024
Chinese bishop reportedly arrested after protesting Communist changes in diocese
‘Fiducia supplicans’: Can Fernández calm the controversy?
DDF clarifies ‘Fiducia supplicans’ after ‘understandable’ bishops’ reactions
Starting Seven: January 4, 2024
US dioceses asked to hold new round of synodal listening sessions
‘He already knows’ - At SEEK, navigating Catholic complexities
The Church in Nicaragua's bleak midwinter
Italian priest excommunicated after calling pope ‘usurper’
Starting Seven: January 3, 2024
Catholic publisher Jimmy Lai pleads ‘not guilty’ to Hong Kong sedition charges
Archeparchy’s fate uncertain as liturgy deadline passes
Fish tank reddit, what's coming, and Covid 2.0