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San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles criticized the Los Angeles Dodgers on Twitter this week for its plans to honor the group. The Los Angeles Dodgers have announced that the franchise will no longer be honoring a group of drag performers that mock the Catholic faith on June 16 during the team’s LGBTQ+ Pride Night after receiving criticism from Catholic leaders. In the Dodger’s May 17 statement about its Pride Night, the organization said on Twitter: “This year, as part of a full night of programming, we invited a number of groups to join us. We are now aware that our inclusion of one group in particular — The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — in this year’s Pride Night has been the source of some controversy.” The L.A. chapter of the Sisters of ...

When Nightshade meets new characters throughout the show, the transformer often includes the preferred pronouns in introductions. At one point, when the long-running character Optimus Prime pauses before referring to Nightshade using a pronoun, another character steps in to tell him, “Nightshade’s pronouns are they/them,” to which Nightshade replies: “He or she just doesn’t fit who I am.” Transformers are machines that do not have any biological anatomy but have always been gendered as either male or female throughout the franchise’s nearly 40-year-long history.  Mary Rice Hasson, the director of the Person and Identity Project at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told CNA that parents need to shield their children from this type of material. “Parents need to face the sad truth tha...

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Vatican to ask Stika for resignation Skip to content The embattled Bishop Rick Stika will be asked by Vatican officials to resign as Bishop of Knoxville, after more than two years of scandal over the bishop’s leadership of his eastern Tennessee diocese. Bishop Richard Stika. Credit: JWoganDOK/wikimedia. CC BY SA 4.0 According to sources close to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops, Pope Francis decided last month to request Stika’s resignation, after reviewing the results of a Vatican-ordered investigation into the bishop’s management. Stika is accused of protecting Wojciech Sobczuk, a seminarian accused multiple times of sexual assault. Stika last year admitted to The Pillar that he interfered with a diocesan review board investigation into the allegation that Sobczuk raped a parish organ...

He prayed in particular for an effective cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians. He said: “Security and stability are never obtained through the use of arms, but rather, every hope of peace will continue to be destroyed.” In his reflection on Sunday’s Gospel, Pope Francis said that the Holy Spirit should be thought of as a constant “companion for life,” who is always there to bring God’s consolation, mercy, and strength. “The Holy Spirit wants to stay with us: He is not a passing guest who comes to pay us a courtesy visit. He is a companion for life, a stable presence. He is the Spirit and desires to dwell in our spirits. He is patient and stays with us even when we fall. He remains because he truly loves us,” he said. Pope Francis asked people to reflect on how often they call upon ...

I have already remarked on the fact that Pope Francis made a non-Catholic a Doctor of the Catholic Church. St. Gregory Narek was a monk in the Armenian Apostolic Church, who died in the early 11th century. I also wrote a post on how Eastern Catholic Churches have brought Orthodox saints with them into the Catholic Church. This includes figures like the Patriarch Photius, who strongly criticized the Papacy and Catholic Trinitarian theology (although who did die in communion with Rome). Occasionally, it has included embracing Orthodox saints from after the time of reunion, such as Churches in the Slavonic tradition celebrating St. Seraphim of Sarov (1754-1833), a Russian monk who was included in the revision of the martyrology by John Paul II. Pope Francis has done something similar, althoug...

“If media reports are accurate, then we would have concerns. We are investigating and looking to speak with the pastor of the parish to get more information,” the spokesperson said. CNA reached out to the archdiocese and the pastor of the church, Father Rick Walsh, for comment on Tuesday but did not receive a response before publication. Parishioners have been divided on the exhibit. The New York Post reported that an “irate” parishioner said “enough is enough.” “It seems like they are trying to force the agenda on others,” the parishioner said. “Also, when a friend asked a priest about this they didn’t answer. You can’t put this out on the altar and then hide.” “That’s what gets the church in trouble,” the parishioner said. However, Cherri Gosh, 80, who supports the exhibit, told the New ...

Pope Francis assures the faithful gathered in St Peter’s Square that Heaven is their homeland, and he urges each of them to follow Jesus when they they find themselves wondering where to go and how to get there. By Francesca Merlo Addressing the faithful gathered in St Peter’s Square for his Sunday Regina Coeli, Pope Francis noted that the day’s Gospel Reading, which is taken from Jesus’ last discourse before his death, shows us how even back then Jesus showed the disciples the way, thus reminding us that He does so today, too: “He tells us where to go and how to go there”, said the Pope.  Where to go Pope Francis goes on to address the “where to go” aspect, noting that Jesus sees the disciples’ distress and prepares a place for th...

Clear majorities of Americans support restrictions affecting transgender children, a Washington Post-KFF poll finds, offering political jet fuel for Republicans in statehouses and Congress who are pushing measures restricting curriculum, sports participation and medical care. Most Americans don’t believe it’s even possible to be a gender that differs from that assigned at birth. A 57 percent majority of adults said a person’s gender is determined from the start, with 43 percent saying it can differ. And some Americans have become more conservative on these questions as Republicans have seized the issue and worked to promote new restrictions. The Pew Research Center found 60 percent last year saying one’s gender is determined by the sex assigned at birth, up from 54 percent in 2017. Even am...

Since news of the possible eucharistic miracle spread, a number of pilgrims have flocked to the church where Blessed Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, was once the pastor. [embedded content] On March 5 at the the conclusion of Mass, Father Joseph Crowley announced that a eucharistic minister witnessed something unexplainable as he was distributing Communion. “One of our eucharistic ministers was running out of hosts and suddenly there were more hosts in the ciborium. God just duplicated himself in the ciborium,” an emotional Crowley told the faithful. “It’s really, really cool when God does these things, and it’s really, really cool when we realize what he’s done, and it just happened today,” the priest said. “Very powerful, very awesome, very real, very shocking. But a...

“This is both deplorable and predictable. Yet, truth has a way of interring [its] undertakers,” the Catholic priest wrote. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based company that reportedly has links to the Chinese government. The company is currently trying to fend off bipartisan efforts on Capitol Hill to restrict or outright ban TikTok in the U.S. because of privacy and security concerns. The Acton Institute is a think tank based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, whose stated mission is “to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.” Its documentary, “The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lai’s Extraordinary Struggle for Freedom,” has garnered more than 1.3 million views since its April 18 release on YouTube and the we...