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A Chaldean Catholic bishop has been arrested in San Diego and charged with embezzling Church funds. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office said Bishop Emanuel Shaleta was arrested on March 5 at San Diego International Airport as the prelate was “attempting to leave the country.” The sheriff’s office said in a press release that the…
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The standing committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE, by its Spanish acronym) has approved the creation of a department for relations with Islam, intended to address the growth of the country’s Muslim population. This new body is part of the Bishops’ Subcommittee for Interconfessional Relations and Interreligious Dialogue, chaired by the auxiliary bishop of…
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As readers of OnePeterFive are well aware, the SSPX has now been threatened with excommunication. The superior general has rejected the offer of dialogue in exchange for cancelling their planned consecrations. The Society issued a document explaining why, from their point of view, consecrating bishops without permission of the Pope would not make them schismatics…
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Cardinal Joseph Zen, a prominent supporter of the Traditional Latin Mass, has urged the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) to avoid schism by listening to Pope Leo XIV’s explanations of the Second Vatican Council. In a comment posted to X in Italian on Friday, the 94-year-old Chinese prelate weighed in on the ongoing discussions…
In Mexico’s cities bordering the U.S., migration numbers have changed. Where there was once a constant flow of people traveling in caravans, today the numbers have slowed to “a trickle.” However, Catholic shelters point out that, far from disappearing, migration has a new face. In the southern Mexican city of Tapachula bordering Guatemala, known as…
After a three-year legal battle, Maltese singer Matthew Grech, accused of publicly sharing how he abandoned a homosexual lifestyle after his conversion to Christianity, was finally acquitted on Wednesday, March 4. The trial against the 36-year-old singer, a former contestant on “X Factor Malta,” began in April 2022 following an interview on the program “PMnews…
A newly established nonprofit launched a crowdfunding effort to construct a papal tiara that will contain Catholic and American symbolism, with the plan to offer it to Pope Leo XIV as a gift from American Catholics for the first pontiff from the United States. “Historically, the majority of papal tiaras are gifts, usually from the…
