Priest Jailed for Sexually Abusing Minor Seminarian — By: Church Militant

TOLEDO, Spain (ChurchMilitant.com) – A Spanish court has sentenced Fr. Pedro Francisco Rodríguez Ramos to seven years in prison for repeated sexual abuse of a seminarian in the Toledo archdiocese’s minor seminary. Fr. Pedro Francisco Rodríguez Ramos In its sentence announced on Oct. 19, the provincial court of León also fined Fr. Ramos 40,000 euros for…

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The Great Sifting — By: Crisis Magazine

This past weekend I attended a Men’s Eucharistic Procession in downtown Cincinnati with about 800 men (including almost 100 priests and seminarians). I first attended this annual event seven years ago, when about 200 men processed through the streets of Cincinnati. The 300% increase in attendance during that time is encouraging, to say the least….

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May a Bishop in Extraordinary Circumstances Ordain Another Bishop Without Papal Consent? — By: OnePeterFive

That the Church of Christ is Apostolic and that among the Apostles the primacy belongs to Peter and to his successors is a truth clearly established in Scripture and Holy Tradition. Nevertheless, the exact content of such primacy is something the understanding of which has developed in history. It is when a special crisis arises…

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