Julia Yost, senior editor of First Things, wrote this op-ed after an Australian appeals court upheld the conviction of Cardinal George Pell

St. Stanislaus Kostka parish officially split from the Church in 2013.

The oppressive regime recently closed and nationalized Catholic health care institutions.

The charges against Msgr. Joseph McLoone are “serious and disturbing,” a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia said. “The archdiocese and the parish will continue to cooperate with law enforcement as the criminal matter enters its next phase.”

Bishop Sergio Buenanueva of San Francisco (Argentina) dismissed a recent Financial Times report as “science fiction.”

Chieko Noguchi, the new director of the Office of Public Affairs, has worked as the Archdiocese of Washington’s director of media and public relations since 2011. She previously worked for public relations agencies and for Rep. Newt Gingrich when he was Speaker of the House of Representatives.

“I find it hard to believe because I know his behavior, his attitude over a lifetime, and I find it hard to believe a complaint that is made against a man who’s 103 years old today, over an alleged event that occurred 50 years ago,” said Chilean President Sebastian Piñera after the Holy See’s embassy announced the allegation.

“We have never seen this speed of scientific change,” said Joseph Meaney. “There are huge developments in robotics, movements to replace organs and limbs with robotic parts, artificial intelligence implants directly into the brain. These all were science fiction so recently.”

Bishop José Luís Azcona Hermoso, 79, said that the working document of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region ignores rampant pedophilia and the spread of Pentecostalism. The document, he added, is “ecclesiologically devoid of theological and pastoral foundations, annulling the Gospel of salvation.”

Bishop Frank Dewane, chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, was commenting on the execution of a Texas man who has maintained his innocence since a 19-year-old woman was murdered in 1998.

Benin, a West African nation of 11.3 million (map), is 28% Muslim, 26% Catholic, and 14% Protestant, with 12% adhering to the traditional regional Vodun religion. The nation’s government has taken legal action against opposition leaders.

The Franciscan Clarist Congregation, with Vatican approval, dismissed Sister Lucy Kalapura for disobedience; the nun maintains she was dismissed because she called for the arrest of a bishop accused of rape.

The West African nation of 19.7 million (map) is 62% Muslim, 23% Catholic, 7% Protestant, and 8% animist.

“The challenge before us is to learn to care, in the same breath, not only for the beauty of God’s creation, its bounteous biodiversity and life sustaining ecosystems, but also for the unborn, the elderly, those who are victims of exploitation, and others thrown away by a society focused on the satisfaction of our supposed needs as consumers,” the bishops of England and Wales said in a statement.

“Amazonia: new paths for the Church and for an integral ecology” is the theme of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region, which will take place October 6-27.

After Father Arturo Sosa, SJ, made similar comments in 2017, a Jesuit spokesman said that the superior general does not deny the devil’s existence.

Headquartered in Bkerké, Lebanon, the Maronite Catholic Church (CNEWA profile) is an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See.

Citing concerns about terrorism, the Indian government recently stripped the Muslim-majority state (map) of its constitutional autonomous status. Pakistan and later China have staked claims to the region since India gained independence from Great Britain in 1947.

The refugee, Faraz Pervaiz, “frankly admits he committed blasphemy by producing cartoons that satirize Islam’s founder,” according to the report.

A 10-year-old autistic girl unexpectedly started singing and dancing on stage during his August 21 general audience. The Pope then said, “I ask one thing, but everyone should respond in their heart: ‘Did I pray for her; looking at her, did I pray so that the Lord would heal her, would protect her? Did I pray for her parents and for family?’ When we see any person suffering, we must always pray.”