Pope & Catholic News

Catholics around the world prayed and fasted on Tuesday for peace in the Holy Land as Israel continues to respond to attacks by Hamas terrorists. Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, not only invited believers to join with the Catholic Church in dedicating Tuesday to prayer and fasting but also declared Oct….

Eight Republican senators are demanding answers from the FBI as the bureau continues to stonewall investigations into the Richmond, Virginia, office's January memo citing the Southern Poverty Law Center to target "radical traditional Catholic hate groups" for surveillance. “The U.S. Constitution protects the right not just to have a faith but to live your faith as well, and the…

FBI Director Christopher Wray may have lied under oath concerning the FBI Richmond office's Jan. 23 memo citing the Southern Poverty Law Center in urging investigation of "radical traditional Catholic hate groups," Rep. Jim Jordan suggested in a letter sent Wednesday. After publication of this story, the FBI told The Daily Signal that Wray's testimony…

Field reporter Savannah Hernandez was one of the only reporters on the ground covering the massive religious protest against anti-Catholic and anti-Christian bigotry. Hernandez joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the protesting against the Los Angeles Dodgers honoring the anti-Catholic “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” — a group of trans-identifying and queer…

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott says his public policy priorities might not be for everyone.   “For those who don’t like commonsense, conservative principles driven by the Judeo-Christian foundation, choose another candidate,” said Scott, R-S.C. “It’s that simple.”  Scott made his remarks during a nearly 30-minute onstage interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson…

The FBI responded on Friday to a lawsuit filed by an advocacy group and claimed that the group is “not entitled” to records regarding the agency’s targeting of Catholics in a memo from January, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Catholic Vote filed a lawsuit in April against the agency after it failed…

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who is running for president, condemned the Los Angeles Dodgers’ decision to celebrate the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of drag performers who mock Christianity, and Roman Catholicism in particular, by dressing up as sexualized nuns and even sexualizing Jesus himself. “We should all be incredibly disappointed in the Los…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: A health sharing group is urging the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to address reports that Catholic hospitals are performing hormonal and surgical sex-change operations on young people. Solidarity HealthShare's June 14 letter asks the bishops "to vote to revise their Religious and Ethical Directives for Catholic Health Care…

Catholic bishops in the United States are calling for prayers and acts of reparation ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ "Pride Night" featuring an anti-Catholic group of drag performers posing as religious sisters. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who is the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and heads the Archdiocese for the Military…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Virginia hair salon fired a Christian stylist over a Facebook post criticizing the streaming movie service Disney+. "My Facebook is my page," Sidney York, the fired stylist, told The Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday. "I understand it’s a touchy subject and people may be offended over it, but it…

Former Vice President Mike Pence is accusing the Los Angeles Dodgers of “welcoming anti-Catholic bigots” to its stadium with “open arms.” “Having been raised in a Catholic family, the Dodgers’ decision to invite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a hateful group that blatantly mocks Catholicism, to their event next month is deeply offensive,” Pence said…

Blake Treinen is the latest Dodgers player to denounce the invitation, then disinvitation, then invitation again of prominent anti-Catholic hate group the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the team’s Pride Night.  “The debacle with Bud Light and Target should be a warning to companies and professional sports to stay true to their brand and leave…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: An athletic organization beloved by legendary Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully is condemning the Dodgers' decision to promote an anti-Catholic group posing as transgender and queer nuns. Catholic Athletes for Christ launched in 2006 to serve athletes in the practice of their faith and to help share the gospel…

As the Los Angeles Dodgers prepare “to host sports’ largest Pride Night of the year” on June 16, the team has faced severe pushback for its announcement of an annual “Community Hero Award” recipient. Among the list of honorees, the team included the controversial Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a “queer and trans nuns” activist group that claims to…

The FBI appears, at least briefly, to have joined the Southern Poverty Law Center's attempt to demonize Roman Catholics who follow the church's teachings on marriage and who celebrate the Latin Mass, in a move one traditional Catholic leader calls both embarrassing and foreboding. Michael J. Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper and producer of…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Two parishioners at a Latin Mass Catholic church in rural Northern Virginia say they witnessed suspicious activity from what looked like FBI vehicles in February, a month after the FBI’s Richmond office published a now-rescinded internal memo focused on “radical-traditional Catholics.” The FBI’s Washington, D.C., office, which monitors the church’s area,…

The House Judiciary Committee released internal FBI documents on Monday that show a plan to establish sources in local Catholic parishes to combat alleged potential violent extremism from “radical-traditional Catholics.” The committee also issued a subpoena to compel the bureau’s cooperation during its investigation into the FBI’s actions. Following the January leak of an FBI…