Issue Category: Doctrine

The 2019-2023 Synodal Way of the Catholic Church in Germany was held ostensibly in response to the clergy sexual abuse crisis and declining Church … Read more

The Vatican’s 2023 declaration Fiducia Supplicans allowed priests for the first time to offer non-liturgical “spontaneous” blessings for same-sex couples. The Vatican insisted the Church’s … Read more

The Catholic Church teaches that only baptized men can validly receive Holy Orders as deacons, priests, or bishops — a position definitively stated by … Read more