conservative Catholics
Catholic news site Church Militant agrees to pay $500k in defamation case and is expected to close
By Peter Smith — March 5, 2024
(AP) — Church Militant and its sleek newscasts drew a loyal following for years with a mix of fiercely right-wing politics and radically conservative Catholicism in which many of America’s bishops were viewed with suspicion and disgust.
In a letter, anonymous prelates criticize Pope Francis as ‘autocratic, vindictive’
By Claire Giangravé — March 1, 2024
(RNS) — While Pope Francis has been struggling with health issues, his opposers outline who should be his successor.
Pope Francis removes a leading US conservative critic as bishop of Tyler, Texas
By Nicole Winfield — November 11, 2023
ROME (AP) — Strickland, 65, has emerged as a leading critic of Francis, accusing him in a tweet earlier this year of “undermining the deposit of faith.”
Pope says some ‘backward’ conservatives in US Catholic Church have replaced faith with ideology
By Associated Press — August 29, 2023
ROME (AP) — Francis’ comments were an acknowledgment of the divisions in the U.S. Catholic Church, which has been split between progressives and conservatives.
Conservative Catholics, Trump and the existential longing to be the ‘heroes’ of our age
By Tara Isabella Burton — November 3, 2020
NEW YORK (RNS) — In Will Arbery’s Pulitzer-nominated play, ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning,’ the only thing worse than our present age being the harbinger of the end of the world is the notion that it doesn’t matter at all.
Amy Coney Barrett nomination fight leaves progressive Catholics feeling unseen
By Alejandra Molina — October 12, 2020
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — This week's Senate hearings may center Barrett's conservative faith, which is strongly anti-abortion and opposed to same-sex marriage, as ‘true Catholicism.’
Opposition to Amazon synod spurs new right-wing coalition in Brazil
By Eduardo Campos Lima — October 3, 2019
SÃO PAULO (RNS) — Its opposition to the Pan-Amazon synod's goals has given a group of conservative Catholic organizations new life as a wedge of the Brazilian president's populist base.
Pope on critics: It’s ‘an honor if the Americans attack me’
By Nicole Winfield — September 5, 2019
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis acknowledged his growing opposition within the conservative right-wing of the U.S. Catholic Church in off-hand remarks aboard the papal plane Wednesday.
The new anti-papalism
By Mark Silk — October 13, 2018
(RNS) — The conservative opposition to Pope Francis is boldly going to a place it once considered heretical.
Catholic TV pioneer Mother Angelica gets feeding tube; condition stabilizes
By David Gibson — December 1, 2015
(RNS) The sisters at her Alabama monastery say the tube is not a last-ditch effort to keep the 92-year-old nun alive, and that she has regained some strength and weight.
Pope Francis has conservatives talking schism. But a split is easier said than done
By David Gibson — November 4, 2014
(RNS) So is a schism, with its echoes of medieval debates and heretics burning at the stake, a realistic possibility? And can an independent Catholic church be successful in the modern world?
Report: ‘Catholic McCarthyism’ threatens bishops’ anti-poverty push
By David Gibson — June 10, 2013
(RNS) The fight over Catholic Campaign for Human Development anti-poverty effort reflects a longstanding divide over whether a few litmus-test issues — most of which do not include social justice concerns — can or should define what it means to be a Catholic in America.
Analysis: Conservatives vent disappointment over Benedict’s papacy
By David Gibson — February 18, 2013
(RNS) When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, the surprising choice left conservative Catholics almost giddy with the prospect of total victory. Now with Benedict set to resign, the Catholic right is counting up the ways that Benedict failed them.
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