Disappearing, Torture, Detention: How the CCP Is Forcing Catholics to Join the State-Run Church

The Chinese Community Party has tightened ideological control, surveillance and travel restrictions on China’s 12 million Catholics, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch, as authorities wage a pressure campaign to get underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official church. Chinese authorities have pressured underground Catholic communities to join the government-run Chinese … Read more

Cardinal Sarah Denounces Church’s Drift: “It Is Not An NGO, It Has Forgotten Its Mission”

In an interview given to the program Le Club Le Figaro Idées , Cardinal Robert Sarah has offered an uncompromising diagnosis of the situation of the Church and the West. The African cardinal warns of a deep crisis of faith in Europe, denounces the reduction of the Church to a social organization, and emphasizes that … Read more

Norbertine Abbey in Santa Fe Posts Message Defending Homosexual Priest

Last August, the Lepanto Institute published a report on Fr. Steve Rosera, a priest of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe who spent 10 years in a publicly registered homosexual relationship and who has openly advocated for same-sex “marriage” for nearly as much time. Without any action on the part of the Archdiocese regarding this grave … Read more