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Judge says religious ministers must have access to detainees at Minnesota ICE facility — By: Catholic News Agency

Christian ministers including a Jesuit priest won a victory at federal court on March 20 when a U.S. district judge said the Department of Homeland Security must allow them formal pastoral access to detainees at a federal facility in Minneapolis. Judge Jerry Blackwell said in his ruling that the government “may not impose an access…

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The SSPX: an Eastern Catholic View (part II) — By: OnePeterFive

The question of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) is almost universally framed in Catholic discourse as a question of obedience or disobedience, and more sharply as a question of schism. This framing, however, presupposes what must be demonstrated—namely, that the existence of parallel ecclesial structures, sustained over time and involving episcopal ordinations without…

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Israeli settlers step up aggressions against Christians in West Bank, Jerusalem bishop says — By: Catholic News Agency

Christians in the West Bank continue to face an onslaught of aggressions by Israeli settlers, threatening their presence in the region, according to Auxiliary Bishop William Shomali of Jerusalem. “The aggressions against Christians in the West Bank are multiplying,” Shomali said in a March 20 interview with “EWTN News Nightly.” The situation for Palestinian Christians…

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