Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

German Cardinal Gerhard Müller is under fire for recent comments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic that have been labeled as antisemitic, with Jewish leaders calling on the Vatican to distance themselves from the remarks.

As the delta variant continues to spread and COVID-19 infections rise in the U.S., there are still barriers between vaccines and the people who need them. Many Latino communities face particular challenges.

Just Catholic: Pope Francis changed canon law to allow women to be installed as lectors and acolytes. Perhaps the new women deacons commission — set to meet in Rome for a week beginning Sept. 13 — will study what (if any) diaconal tasks are impossible for women.

Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth has shared articles, essays and videos critical of Pope Francis on his Facebook page and has "liked" comments from people angry about the pope's apostolic letter that curtails use of the pre-Vatican II liturgy.

Distinctly Catholic: What we witnessed last week at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' spring meeting was outrageous. Does the conference leadership understand that there was no synodality last week at their meeting?

Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said a letter he sent in late May to the president of the U.S. bishops' conference was simply "a letter of acknowledgment" of the receipt of communication from him.

Services that offered blessings to same-sex couples at over 100 parishes across Germany were the latest chapter in ongoing tensions between the German Catholic Church and Rome. 

Distinctly Catholic: Pope Francis' decision to postpone and widen the planned 2022 synod is extraordinary. Yet I worry how the U.S. bishops will manage to engage in this new and promising synodal process.