National Catholic Register

How to Tell Doctrinal Development From Cultural Corruption

There is much talk these days about the concept of the “development of doctrine” in the Church. The topic is a complex one and its various nuances cannot be adequately dealt with in a short essay.
National Review

En Banc Ninth Circuit Divides Sharply on Church-Autonomy Doctrine

The Supreme Court Should Affirm That Schools Cannot Usurp Parental Rights This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—November 7 Judges Need to Know What Time It Is — Time to Go Senior This Day in Liberal ...
Religion Dispatches

In Repudiation of its Devastating Doctrine of Discovery, Vatican Masks the History and Responsibility of Catholic Church

What are the responsibilities of the Catholic Church when considering the historical realities of settler colonialism in what we now call the Americas? This question lies at the heart of recent ...
Kentucky Today

Tennessee Supreme Court hears defamation case against SBC, others

Tennessee Supreme Court justices sought clarity regarding the church autonomy doctrine Thursday (Jan. 8) in a case focused on ...
National Catholic Register

A Synodal Long Game? Changing Structure to Change Doctrine

VATICAN CITY— Will the Synod on Synodality result in changes to established Church teaching? But some participants may be using the synodal process to try to change something arguably even more ...
NDTV

Church Doctrines

Pope Leo XIV said in his first interview as history's first American pope that he has no intention of getting involved in US politics but will raise his voice on issues of concern to the Catholic ...
Crux

Pope charges new doctrine czar to spurn ‘immoral methods’ in defense of the faith

Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández and then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, now Pope Francis, appear together in this 2010 photo. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen ROME – In what’s likely ...
The New York Sun

Appeals Court Says Religious Organizations Can Exclude Job Applicants Who Fail To Follow Group’s Religious Beliefs, Practices

The lawsuit was initially dismissed, but it was revived by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and ...
USA Today

Opinion: It's painful — but churches divided by doctrine almost always split

After decades of progressive dissent, the leaders of the Christian Reformed Church in America finally took a firm stand against the sexual revolution. Not only did the 2022 CRC Synod, voting 123-53, ...
WTOP News

Pope Francis sought to make LGBTQ+ people more welcome, but church doctrine didn’t change much

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between gay or ...
Governing

What the Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery Means for Indian Country

Apologies from Pope Francis for the Catholic Church's violence and abuse against Indigenous people in Canada during a visit in 2022 fell short in the eyes of prominent Indigenous advocates. Will his ...