Catholic preschools ask SCOTUS for taxpayer-funded discrimination!

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m4zFwTDev8I?is=ThOdMHxi2eP6d186&themeRefresh=1

US Catholic churches see a record number of conversions: ‘It’s a real shift’

He and other church leaders suspect the new generations of faithful, many raised by non-religious parents, have emerged spiritually hungry from a steady diet of social media reels and Love Island watch parties. Catholicism offers a counterweight: rituals and a history that reaches far beyond the algorithm…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/aug/25/young-americans-catholic-church-revival 

 

What Would Christopher Hitchens Say About the Holocaust? #youtubeshorts

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cD4npMk7nwY

 

Why I’m a Materialist | Christopher Hitchens #youtubeshorts #shortvideo

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8iT6iciA6UU 

The Vatican's threat to excommunicate half a million Catholics | About That

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GMhP0BR8PeM

Trump’s War Against the Church Just Got MUCH WORSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEMAEJC7L4Q

BREAKING: Pentagon THREATENS Catholic Church as Pope DENOUNCES War in Iran

Aaron Parnas reports on breaking news of Trump's Cabinet threatening the Pope and Catholic Church as the Pope denounces war in Iran, including a look at who made the remarks today, implications for Trump, and much more!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIEeFPq8HsU

 

INSIDER Reveals Pope Leo's Confrontation of GOP-Linked Opus Dei

Journalist Gareth Gore returns to talk to Court Accountability Action’s Alex Aronson about his recent talk with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, where he discussed Opus Dei and its abuses with His Holiness. Gareth and Alex talk about how this meeting came about, what Gareth shared with the Pope based on his years of reporting, and what may come next for the Vatican’s relationship with Opus Dei.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxvmm1wajp4

 

Rhode Island’s investigation into the Catholic Church hit two big obstacles

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5lkA9RxTGpo

 

Who can tame Trump? An unlikely candidate is emerging: the Catholic church

Inequality, immigration and civil rights are the battlegrounds on which the church, and some other Christian denominations, are fighting

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/23/who-can-tame-trump-pope-leo-xiv-catholic-church-usa

October 15, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z0bvQQBfZYU

WATCH: Pope Leo CALLS OUT MAGA Christians In VIRAL MOMENT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFFWjma0uoM

 

WHY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WANTS TO TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hCSDHakLM

 

Trump's Justice Department and the Catholic Church are fighting a law that will protect children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw6FElKqJEE

 

Feds call child abuse confession law for priests "anti-Catholic" as church vows to excommunicate those who comply - CBS News

Gov. Mike Ferguson signed the controversial bill into law last week, making it mandatory for all clergy to report child abuse, without exemptions for information disclosed during confession. Confessions were previously considered privileged. 

The Archdiocese of Seattle — which was made up of 160 priests and 90 permanent deacons as of 2024 — said it will excommunicate priests who comply with the legislation…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-state-catholic-church-feds-child-abuse-reporting-law-priests/ 

How EWTN is shaping US conservative Catholic views of the papal conclave | Reuters

Some of the network's programming was critical of Francis, who denounced Trump's mass deportation plans in February and broke from tradition by allowing priests to perform same-sex marriage blessings. 

Francis took note of EWTN's criticism, telling a network reporter and cameraman in 2021 that EWTN "should stop bad-mouthing me," according to America, the Jesuit magazine. 

Months later, addressing a gathering of Jesuits, he said, "There is, for example, a large Catholic television channel that has no hesitation in continually speaking ill of the pope. I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the church does not deserve them." 

"They are the work of the devil," he added...

https://www.reuters.com/world/meet-us-catholic-tv-network-that-drew-ire-pope-francis-2025-05-06/ 

 

The challenges facing the Catholic Church ahead of the papal conclave - The Washington Post

The U.S. church, meanwhile, faces a struggle for its soul — with MAGA Catholics, led by some radically conservative Catholic clerics, politicizing the faith…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/03/conclave-pope-francis-vatican/ 

‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic group in Argentina

The first item Opus Dei gave 12-year-old Andrea Martínez was a pink dress. The second was a schedule that detailed every task for every minute of her day. Then, when she was 16, she was given a cilice – a spiked metal chain to wear around her thigh – and a whip…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/14/argentina-human-rights-women-opus-dei-catholic-church-exploitation-abuse-celibacy-trafficking-allegations

Citing “drastic” funding cuts, U.S. Catholic Church ends resettlement work - The Washington Post

In January, Vice President JD Vance criticized the U.S. Catholic Church's efforts to help immigrants and refugees, suggesting the church is motivated by money, and alleged without evidence that it works with millions of "illegal immigrants." 

The bishops sued the Trump administration in January for back pay for resettlement work it already completed. They are owed $24 million as of Monday, the USCCB said...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/07/catholic-bishop-refugee-resettlement-trump/

Survivor who ignited US Catholic church’s reckoning with abuse killed in Louisiana

When Gastal first publicly shared his abuse, the Catholic diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, had already paid more than $4m in confidential settlements to nine families whose children who were molested by Gauthe. Gastal's family, however, declined to settle and sued the diocese, alleging that the church so badly failed to protect the boy from Gauthe that the abuse inflicted on the child sent him to the hospital with rectal bleeding at one point...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/church-abuse-survivor-louisiana-killed