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Switzerland’s Diocese of Chur, which was supposed to welcome a new bishop following the vote of the cathedral chapter on Nov. 23, is still vacant — because the cathedral’s 22 canons unexpectedly have rejected all three candidates proposed by the Vatican.  A year and a half after Bishop Vitus Huonder retired at the conclusion of a 12-year tenure in May 2019, the trilingual diocese, which extends over seven Swiss cantons, including that of Zurich, Switzerland’s largest city, and encompasses 308 parishes, remains in uncertainty pending Pope Francis’ reaction to the failed election. In the meantime, the diocese will be run by apostolic administrator Bishop emeritus Peter Bürcher of Reykjavik, Iceland, who has been in charge since Bishop Huonder left office.   Since the 15th century, ...

[embedded content] Dr. Alicia Thompson didn’t grow up with any kind of religious background, but when she went to med school to become an OB/GYN, and was met with the decision of whether or not to train to do abortions, she found herself at a moral crossroads. She began to dig deeper to better understand her own conscience, and that time of reflection led her first to become a “born-again” Christian, and eventually a Catholic, who now brings her faith to bear fully on her work as an OB/GYN. Watch Dr. Thompson’s full episode of The Journey Home here. Join Our Telegram Group : Salvation & Prosperity  

By Tom Hoopes, December 3, 2020 This Sunday, the Second Sunday of Advent (Year B), the Gospel prepares us for all three comings of Christ: In our lives, at the Second Coming, and at Christmas. What we need for each is hope, but not the sunny optimism we associate with the word “hope.” We need the serious hope of John the Baptist, St. Peter and Isaiah. John the Baptist had the kind of hope that rejects the world’s comfort and embraces hard moral truths. John the Baptist is the ultimate symbol of hope. He is the first person we are shown as we prepare for Christ’s coming because we are each meant to be like him: Poor enough to be at the disposal of anyone we meet, and willing to die rather than compromise the hard truths of the faith. The Gospel says “all Jerusalem” went out to him. The...

The most dramatic accusations leveled against Cardinal Becciu have yet to be tested in a court, either in the Vatican or in Italy, and supporters of the cardinal have mounted a determined media defense, attempting to paint Cardinal Becciu’s fall from grace as a sinister plot against him, the pope, and against the Church itself. WASHINGTON — Two months since his fall from grace, Cardinal Angelo Becciu remains in the news, and out of any future papal conclave.  And despite the disgraced cardinal’s attempts to fight his way back to credibility, there seems little prospect of a return to favor for Cardinal Becciu, who is now effectively a cardinal-in-name-only. Cardinal Becciu, the former sostituto at the Secretariat of State and prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, remai...

For Cardinal George Pell, being falsely imprisoned and suffering great trials for the past three years taught him that Jesus’ teaching “on many things is absolutely true” and that “the key to life is found in Christ’s words.” Speaking to the Register Dec. 1 in his first lengthy interview with a Catholic publication since his acquittal and release from prison, the former prefect of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy said the Catholic faith “helped keep me going.”  The Australian cardinal was speaking ahead of the release of the first volume of his book Prison Journal, to be published by Ignatius Press in paperback on Dec. 16. The volume covers the period from Feb. 27, 2019, when he was remanded in custody, to July 13, 2019, a month before Victoria’s supreme court upheld his conv...