28+ min ago  (37+ words) The Pillar Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar's daily newsletter. I'm Luke Coppen and I aim to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and commentary....

1+ hour, 7+ min ago  (960+ words) The Vatican declared Thursday the excommunications of all six bishops of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X following the illicit episcopal consecration in "c'ne, Switzerland on July 1. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a decree of…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago  (1768+ words) The U. S. government's attempt to build a section of border wall on a popular New Mexico pilgrimage site is being contested by the local diocese. A diocesan official told The Pillar the wall would be a political monument to a policy…...

18+ hour, 39+ min ago  (706+ words) The Nicaraguan dictatorship detained and released a retired bishop Jun. 29 after a hospital visit. Eighty-year-old Bishop Abelardo Mata, SDB, emeritus Bishop of Estel, was held in police custody for several hours on Monday after celebrating Mass in his former diocese,…...

21+ hour, 45+ min ago  (1204+ words) Pope Leo XIV rolled back key parts of Pope Francis" 2023 reform of the Diocese of Rome on Jun. 30, issuing a new motu proprio that re-centers diocesan governance around the Cardinal Vicar. Three years after Francis promulgated the apostolic constitution In…...

22+ hour, 41+ min ago  (272+ words) The traditionalist Society of St. Pius X illicitly ordained four new bishops Wednesday, despite a last-minute appeal by Pope Leo XIV, and the prospect of declared canonical penalties for the ecclesiastical crime of schism. SSPX Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta was…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (37+ words) The Pillar Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar's daily newsletter. I'm Luke Coppen and I seek to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and commentary....

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1063+ words) Pope Leo XIV announced on Tuesday a series of major Vatican appointments, one of the largest curial shakeups of his pontificate to date. Changes at the top of four dicasteries, include the appointment of Sister Alessandra Smerilli, FMA, as prefect…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1191+ words) The Pillar The Traditional Latin Mass: What Might Leo Do? According to in-the-know vaticanisti, somewhere on Pope Leo's long to-do list is a line that reads "Traditional Latin Mass" " that is, the old rite, extraordinary form, usus antiquior, or (in…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1813+ words) Before the newsletter, a little announcement. As some of you know, we at The Pillar are inviting you to join us for a pilgrimage this September to the beatification of Ven. Fulton Sheen in St. Louis. We did everything we…...