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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 24, 2025 / 15:45 pm (CNA).

High-ranking heads of state and Catholic bishops in China have remained notably silent following the death of Pope Francis, while reactions from political and religious leaders across the globe poured out on social media within hours of the pope's passing on Monday morning. 

AsiaNews reported on Tuesday that Chinese officials are not permitted to express themselves publicly on Pope Francis' death due the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s control over the Church there.

The Chinese government offered a brief statement nearly 24 hours after the Holy Father's passing, only after reporters asked foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun about it on Tuesday. 

"China expresses its condolences for the death of Pope Francis," he said, adding that "in recent years, China and the Vatican have maintained constructive contacts and engaged in useful exchanges. China is ready to work with the Vatican to promote the continuous improvement of China-Vatican relations." 

Notably, the CCP posted a tribute to Pope Benedict XVI after his passing two years ago, stating: "We entrust Benedict XVI to God's mercy and ask him to grant him eternal rest in heaven." Several days have passed since Pope Francis' death with no similar statement from the CCP. 

"I mean, it's really astonishing because they have an agreement with the Vatican," Hudson Institute Fellow Nina Shea told CNA on Wednesday. "It's a reflection of their refusal to acknowledge the supremacy of the papal authority over the Catholic Church and that they see the pope only in secular terms as a head of state, the Holy See."

The Vatican-China agreement to allow Chinese-appointed bishops in the Catholic Church was renewed last year and is set to remain intact until October 2028, despite numerous reports of Chinese violations of the deal and continued persecution against Catholic bishops. 

"The absence of condolences," Shea said, "is a sign that they do not see the pope as the religious head of the Catholic Church and they do not want their people to associate the pope, the papacy, with the Catholic Church in China."

"This shows the futility of the Vatican's approach," she added. 

Catholic priests and bishops in China are required to join the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, she explained, which entails a pledge of independence from foreign influence — which includes the pope. 

Shea further described the Patriotic Association's decision to remain silent on Pope Francis' death as "a tightening of messaging," which she said "is a continuous process in communist China." 

Indeed, this shift comes as new regulations on religious activities in China are set to roll out across the country May 1. 

According to the new rules, "collective religious activities organized by foreigners in China are restricted to foreign participants only" with few exceptions. In addition, foreign clergy are banned from presiding over religious activities for Chinese people without the invitation of the Chinese government, severely limiting foreign missionary activity in the country.

In light of these stricter regulations, Shea pointed out, risk is elevated for bishops or dioceses who might signal allegiance to the Vatican. 

Post-conclave Vatican-China relations

With China appearing to back away from its strained diplomatic relationship with the Vatican after Pope Francis' death, the future of the Vatican-China agreement is unclear. "There's a lot of deception on the part of the Chinese about what it intends to do vis-a-vis the Vatican," Shea said. 

China retains the upper hand, she explained, because "the only leverage that the Vatican has is its moral authority." Unlike the Maoist regime, Xi Jinping's China will not carry out a bloody persecution of Christians that will stir international outrage and incur economic sanctions and other consequences for the regime. 

"The Chinese are afraid to really openly crack down on the Church, so they want to disguise it and cover it up with diplomatic gestures," she said, "They've abandoned the bloodier practices of the Mao period because they want Western trade and Western investment. And that's what dictates the difference between their treatment of the Uyghurs and the treatment of the Catholic bishops."

"The persecution of the Church [in China] is surgical," Shea said, noting that while overt bloodshed is not the CCP's play, the CCP has imprisoned 10 bishops — some for more than a decade — and systematically prevented the appointment of new bishops in cooperation with Rome, as the country's remaining bishops continue to die of old age year by year. It has also abolished dioceses across the country. 

"They go after the bishops and priests," Shea continued. "They know that it's a hierarchical church, so they're not doing mass imprisonment or mass detention like they did with the Uyghurs, because it is a hierarchical church. They don't have to. They can decapitate [the Church] by rounding up bishops who are not cooperating that they know about." 

"That's why I think they should be underground," she stated. 

As it stands, Catholic bishops run the risk of being "cruelly punished" by the regime with no due process, being "locked away in isolation for decades on end, or a years on end, or have their lives interrupted every other month with a detention, which you never know is going to come and it's indefinite," Shea said. They are repressed, but in such a way of "not driving away international investment and trade by the drawing the eye of the West." 

As a conclave approaches, Shea expressed hope that the next pontiff will alter Vatican relations with China and ultimately abandon their fraught agreement. 

"The deal made things much worse because the Vatican is now actually covering up for the Communist Party in China and is covering up the persecution of the Church," she said. "It's been the policy in the Vatican since the 1990s to never criticize China in any way, regarding the Church or other atrocities such as forced abortions or the one-child policy." 

Shea added: "I would encourage the U.S. [Vatican] ambassador [nominee] Brian Burch to try to open up their eyes to what is being covered up."

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 24, 2025 / 16:15 pm (CNA).

The University of Louisville has agreed to pay a former professor nearly $1.6 million after the university demoted him and refused to renew his contract following off-campus expert testimony in which he spoke about the dangers of performing transgender operations on children.

Allan Josephson, a psychologist who had led the university's division of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology, received pushback from the university's LGBT Center immediately after he voiced his concerns on a panel at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

"I'm glad to finally receive vindication for voicing what I know is true," Josephson said in a statement provided by his attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) after the settlement.

"Children deserve better than life-altering procedures that mutilate their bodies and destroy their ability to lead fulfilling lives," Josephson added. 

"In spite of the circumstances I suffered through with my university, I'm overwhelmed to see that my case helped lead the way for other medical practitioners to see the universal truth that altering biological sex is impossibly dangerous while acceptance of one's sex leads to flourishing."

According to the lawsuit Josephson filed against the school in early 2019, the professor said during the Heritage panel discussion that gender dysphoria is a sociocultural and psychological issue that cannot be fully addressed through transgender drugs or surgeries. 

He also argued that transgender medical interventions neglect the developmental needs of children and fail to address the root cause of the child's gender dysphoria.

The lawsuit noted that he had previously given expert testimony on these matters, saying that children are not equipped psychologically to make important life decisions and that gender transitions result in permanent social, medical, and psychiatric consequences. 

He has said that therapy for children should focus on resolving conflicts they feel with their biological sex rather than being immediately "affirmed" as transgender.

According to the lawsuit, Josephson was demoted at the behest of the university's LGBT Center and several faculty members. It asserted that some faculty members created a hostile environment and leaked information about his demotion to discredit him as an expert witness. It stated that the university refused to renew his contract without citing any performance concerns.

The lawsuit accused the public university of violating Josephson's First Amendment right to free speech and his 14th Amendment right to due process by demoting and ultimately firing him.

ADF Senior Counsel Travis Barham hailed the settlement as a major victory for "free speech and common sense" on college campuses. He said public universities will hopefully learn from this settlement that "if they violate the First Amendment, they can be held accountable, and it can be very expensive."

"[Josephson] risked his livelihood and reputation to speak the truth boldly, and the university punished him for expressing his opinion — ultimately by dismissing him," he said. "But public universities have no business punishing professors simply because they hold different views. Dr. Josephson's case illustrates why — because the latest and best science confirms what he stated all along."

The university did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday. 

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 24, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA).

Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) will launch a national storytelling exhibit in 2026 detailing the organization's acts of service around the country, the charity group said this week.

The exhibit, titled "People of Hope: Faith-Filled Stories of Neighbors Helping Neighbors," will tour the U.S. for two and a half years, according to a press release from the organization on Wednesday. 

"The exhibit, housed in a retrofitted tractor trailer, will share professionally produced, first-person accounts from staff and volunteers of Catholic Charities agencies across the country about meaningful and memorable encounters with families and individuals in need," the release stated.

The project will be funded by a nearly $5 million from the Lilly Endowment. "We are incredibly grateful to Lilly Endowment for offering us the opportunity to shine a light on the transcendent power that springs from the simple but profound act of helping another human being in need," CCUSA President and CEO Kerry Alys Robinson said.

"Through this exhibit, we hope to inspire more people of hope all around the United States to seek out opportunities to love and serve our neighbors, to be Christ-like in response to human suffering, deprivation, or injustice," she added. 

Apart from Catholic Charities USA, the Lilly Endowment awarded grants to 11 other organizations "as a part of an invitational round of its National Storytelling Initiative on Christian Faith and Life." 

"For many years, leaders of Christian communities have shared with the endowment powerful stories about how faith animates the lives of individuals with meaning and hope, giving them a deep sense of God's love for themselves and others," the endowment's Vice President for Religion Christopher Coble stated in a press release announcing the approval of the grants.

"These leaders have also shared their concerns that these powerful stories are often overshadowed by accounts of the closing of churches and the weakening of religious life," he continued. "We hope this initiative will help make known the vibrant ways that Christians practice their faith through acts of love and compassion in their everyday lives."

Catholic Charities USA will begin professionally recording selected stories of service from its staff this summer at its office in Alexandria, Virginia, while the exhibit is scheduled to kick off its journey in the spring of 2026.

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Vatican City, Apr 24, 2025 / 17:28 pm (CNA).

Father Arturo Sosa, SJ, superior general of the Society of Jesus, reflected on the first Jesuit pope in a press conference on Thursday, saying Francis "did not seek to please everyone" or to measure himself by a popularity index.

"Once he chose to be a disciple of Jesus, his deep motivation in life was to put God's will into practice," Sosa said, calling the late pontiff "a man of prayer, who asked for prayers to make decisions according to the will of God."

During the press conference, held in the Jesuit general curia in Rome, Sosa also answered a question about what qualities are needed in the next pope. "Undoubtedly, we are looking for another man of God," he said.

"And after that, for me, it is important to have a pope with a universal outlook," he added, drawing a distinction with what he called an "international outlook."

The Jesuit superior defended Francis against accusations he caused controversy — like with Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican's declaration on same-sex blessings — or fell short in some areas by saying he was not the source of problems in the Church but inherited problems that were already there.

"Pope Francis helped put the difference of positions on the table" and provoked dialogue, Sosa said, stressing that the late pope wanted to listen to everyone.

"I don't think of Pope Francis as a reformer," Sosa also said. "I think of him as someone who continued the reform that the Church has always carried out."

About Francis' record on abuse, Sosa said the pope "always acknowledged his limitations, his mistakes, and his slowness" to respond to cases. "This is not about giving Pope Francis a medal or giving him a grade but about learning about potential criticism and mistakes."

"With regard to abuse cases, I think the Church is not in the same place when Pope Francis was elected. That's without a doubt. It hasn't been a straight line… but the Church has advanced in that direction," he added.

According to the superior general, Pope Francis' most urgent legacy for today will be his calls for peace: "I think Pope Francis has shouted in every moment, on every occasion, about peace."

"The world needs peace and peace is built by us," Sosa added. "Peace means to put aside any other priority than people and the dignity of people. And peace means justice with the poor. I think the constant prayer and the constant argument about peace by Pope Francis is a very important message for today."

Pope Francis, who joined the Society of Jesus in 1958, was the first-ever Jesuit to be pope. During his international trips, he would always spend time with local Jesuits in the countries he visited. He also met with Jesuits in Rome during their 36th general congregation on Oct. 24, 2016.

"He established a very fraternal relationship with the Jesuits," Sosa said on April 24. "We will end this period of Pope Francis thanking the Lord."

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 24, 2025 / 11:30 am (CNA).

The Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei has significantly reduced the scope of its two-week general congress that began this week due to the death of Pope Francis two days before the assembly's scheduled start date.

Opus Dei had planned to revise its statutes to conform them to Pope Francis' motu proprio Ad Charisma Tuendum. Essentially, the pontiff's directive subjected Opus Dei to the leadership of the Dicastery for the Clergy rather than the Dicastery for Bishops and ended the practice of elevating the prelate of Opus Dei to the role of a bishop.

The pope had also directed Opus Dei to revise its statutes to reflect this new structure, which was meant to be accomplished during the general congress. The revision would have then been submitted to the Holy See for approval after its adoption by the general congress.

Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, the prelate of Opus Dei, announced on April 21 that those statute revisions will be delayed and the general congress will only focus on the administrative tasks of renewing positions in the general council and the central advisory, which are appointed or renewed every eight years.

"The other questions that were to be dealt with at the congress … will be studied later," Ocáriz said in a statement. "Now is a time of mourning, prayer, and unity with the whole Church."

Ocáriz wrote that he decided not to delay the renewal of those positions because many of the participants had already arrived in Rome. Yet, it will be "reduced to the minimum necessary."

"Let us take advantage of these days to live in communion with the whole Church during the mourning and funeral rites for the Holy Father," Ocáriz said. 

In addition, Ocáriz issued a separate statement to commemorate the life and the papacy of Francis, saying: "In these moments of sorrow, together with the whole Church, we address our prayers to the Lord for the soul of our beloved Pope Francis."

"The pope had great faith in the mercy of God and one of the main orientations of his pontificate has been precisely to announce it to the men and women of today," he added. "By his example, he urged us to accept and experience God's mercy, who never tires of forgiving us; and, on the other hand, to be merciful to others, as he tirelessly was himself, with so many gestures of tenderness that are a central part of his witnessing magisterium."

Opus Dei had also planned to study ways to further their apostolic work in light of the conclusions of regional assemblies, but this will also be postponed.

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 23, 2025 / 17:26 pm (CNA).

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) hosted the inaugural meeting this week of a new task force to counter anti-Christian bias in federal government policies, regulations, and practices.

"Protecting Christians from bias is not favoritism," Attorney General Pam Bondi said ahead of the meeting. "It's upholding the rule of law and fulfilling the constitutional promise [in the First Amendment]."

The task force's first meeting on Tuesday was closed to the public and the media but included the heads of multiple federal departments and agencies along with witnesses who provided testimony on anti-Christian bias within the federal government.

President Donald Trump formally established the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias on Feb. 6 by executive order. His order commissioned a comprehensive review of federal departments and agencies, particularly to reverse certain actions of the previous administration.

Specific concerns of anti-Christian bias

A news release following the meeting detailed some of the concerns and policies administration officials are reviewing.

One Catholic-specific concern discussed in the meeting was the since-retracted January 2023 memo from the Richmond Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which detailed an investigation into supposed ties between "radical traditionalist" Catholics and "the far-right white nationalist movement."

The document called for "trip wire or source development" within Catholic parishes that offer the Traditional Latin Mass and within online Catholic communities. Later revelations from the House Judiciary Committee found that the Richmond FBI used at least one undercover agent to obtain information on traditionalist Catholics and coordinated with other FBI field offices on the matter.

According to an April 22 news release after the task force meeting, Trump's FBI director, Kash Patel, discussed "the impact of the anti-Catholic memo" during the gathering and "reiterated the FBI's commitment to rooting out any anti-Christian bias that could be directing decisions or investigations."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the news release notes, brought up concerns about bias against a Christian Foreign Service Officer who "was threatened with an investigation for child abuse" for insisting on home-schooling his child.

According to the news release, Rubio also expressed disapproval of the Department of State stigmatizing workers who opposed the COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds and retaliation against employees for "opposing DEI/LGBT ideology." 

For her part, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon discussed concerns about gender ideology in education policies and school districts socially transitioning children without their parents' knowledge. 

Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender voiced concerns about the Biden administration removing certain tax classifications from Christian and pro-life organizations and objections to debanking.

Michael Farris, an attorney and founder of Patrick Henry College, was one of the witnesses. Farris called attention to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigating and charging Pastor Gary Hamrick of Cornerstone Chapel for alleged Johnson Amendment violations.

Phil Mendes, a U.S. Navy Seal, spoke about how he was relieved of his duty under the Biden administration for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

CNA reached out to the DOJ and FBI for comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

"As shown by our victims' stories today, Biden's Department of Justice abused and targeted peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses," Bondi said in a statement after the meeting. "Thanks to President Trump, we have ended those abuses, and we will continue to work closely with every member of this task force to protect every American's right to speak and worship freely."

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CNA Staff, Apr 23, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA).

The Diocese of Buffalo, New York, will pay out a massive $150 million sum as part of a settlement with victims of clergy sexual abuse there. 

The diocese said in a press release that the diocese itself, along with parishes and affiliates, would provide the payment "to survivors of sexual abuse for acts perpetrated against them by clergy, religious, lay employees, and volunteers." 

The settlement amount was still set to be voted on by abuse victims and approved by U.S. bankruptcy court, but the proposal has been accepted by the committee of abuse survivors in the suit, the diocese said. 

The settlement "represents an essential milestone on this protracted and arduous journey, and importantly, enables us to finally provide a measure of financial restitution to victim-survivors, which has been our primary objective all along," Bishop Michael Fisher said on Tuesday. 

"While indeed a steep sum, no amount of money can undo the tremendous harm and suffering the victim survivors have endured, or eliminate the lingering mental, emotional, and spiritual pain they have been forced to carry throughout their lives," the prelate said. 

The diocese said it was still in talks with insurers "to determine amounts to be added to the final settlement fund from prevailing coverages."

In a press release provided to CNA, New York law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates, which has represented abuse victims in the suit, said the amount was "the second-largest contribution by a bankrupt Roman Catholic institution and its affiliates in any Roman Catholic bankruptcy case to date."

The settlement is "a major step forward to reaching a long-awaited resolution for the hundreds of strong, heroic survivors who came forward in the Diocese of Buffalo," attorney Stacey Benson said in the release. 

The parties in the suit "continue to negotiate nonmonetary terms of the settlement, including strengthening child protection measures and the release of diocesan documents pertaining to the accused perpetrators," the law firm noted. 

The payout comes several months after the largest diocesan-level bankruptcy settlement in U.S. history, when the Diocese of Rockville Centre — also in New York — agreed to pay $323 million to abuse victims. 

The largest Church abuse payout total in U.S. history thus far has been at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which last year agreed to a near-$1 billion payment to abuse victims.

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CNA Staff, Apr 23, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA).

The German Catholic bishops have published a handout that offers guidance to pastors on blessings for couples in "irregular" situations such as same-sex relationships, urging clergy to use the blessings to "express appreciation" for individuals seeking the recognition from Catholic priests. 

The handout, "Blessings for Couples Who Love Each Other," was distributed earlier this month by the joint conference of members of the German Bishops' Conference (DBK) and the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK).

The guidance cites Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican document published in 2023 that was approved by Pope Francis. The German document allows for "blessings" of homosexual couples and other extramarital arrangements. It was first reported on by CNA Deutsch, CNA's German-language news partner. 

"Non-church married couples, divorced and remarried couples, and couples in all the diversity of sexual orientations and gender identities are of course part of our society," the bishops wrote, noting that "quite a few of these couples want a blessing for their relationship."

"Such a request is an expression of gratitude for their love and an expression of the desire to shape this love from faith," the document says, calling blessings "an act of the Church, which places itself at the service of divine-human encounter." 

"The Church takes seriously the couple's desire to place their future path in life under God's blessing," the handout claims. "It sees in the request for blessing the hope of a relationship with God that can sustain human life."

"The art and manner of conducting the blessing, the location, the entire aesthetics, including music and singing, are intended to express the appreciation of the people who have asked for the blessing, their togetherness and their faith," the guidance stipulates. 

When published in 2023, Fiducia Supplicans generated widespread international backlash from Church leaders around the world, though some bishops praised the guidance and vowed to allow the blessings in their bishoprics.

The document asserted that Catholic priests can bless same-sex couples as an expression of pastoral closeness without condoning their sexual relations. The declaration emphasized that blessings may only be given "spontaneously" and not in the context of a formal liturgical rite.

Bishops in Europe, Africa, and elsewhere said they would not be permitting priests to perform such blessings. Some bishops in the U.S., meanwhile, said they would implement the guidelines in their dioceses. 

Pope Francis several times defended the document from criticism, arguing that blessings do not require "moral perfection" before they are given.

"The intent of the 'pastoral and spontaneous blessings' is to concretely show the closeness of the Lord and of the Church to all those who, finding themselves in different situations, ask help to carry on — sometimes to begin — a journey of faith," he said last year.

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Vatican City, Apr 23, 2025 / 12:30 pm (CNA).

Pope Francis was brought in solemn procession to St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday morning, where the late pontiff will lie in state for three days for mourners to pay their final respects and say goodbye.

The Rite of Translation began in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta, where Francis lived for the 12 years of his pontificate, and ended with the Holy Father's body before the Altar of Confession in the soaring basilica at the center of Christendom.

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ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 23, 2025 / 12:55 pm (CNA).

Pope Francis, baptized as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, celebrated his patron saint's feast day every April 23. The patron saint's day of the pope is a holiday at the Vatican and Pope Francis usually celebrated it with acts of charity toward people in need.

The patron saint of the late pontiff, St. George, is credited with protecting the papacy and is also known as an intercessor in the fight against evil.

Pope Francis was known to take every opportunity to celebrate special occasions with the poorest, as was also the case on his birthday, when he often invited hundreds of them to dine with him at the Vatican.

In 2018, the Holy Father surprised the world with his unusual gesture of distributing ice cream to the poor of Rome to celebrate St. George's feast day.

On that occasion, with the help of the apostolic almoner, nearly 3,000 servings of ice cream were distributed in the city's soup kitchens. This initiative set the tone for subsequent celebrations of St. George's feast day.

In 2019, Pope Francis gave a 44-pound chocolate Easter egg to the poor who came to the Caritas soup kitchen in central Rome.

In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, the Holy Father donated 10 ventilators to hospitals in Romania, Italy, and Spain.

Subsequently, on April 23, 2021, Pope Francis visited the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican to greet the more than 600 poor people waiting their turn to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of the Vatican's solidarity vaccination campaign.

It was common for Pope Francis to make these kinds of gestures to the poor of the city of which he was bishop. In fact, a few years ago he ordered the construction of showers in St. Peter's Square as well as a health care center and shelters.

The Holy Father also invited those in need to visit the Vatican Museums, gave them a gala dinner near Piazza Bernini, and even established a special day for them, the World Day of the Poor.

This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.

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