Peter Feuerherd

Archbishop William Lori announced July 17 that the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston will undergo an independent financial audit. The move was a response to the "Not a Dime for the Diocese" campaign, led by Lay Catholic Voices for Change, which urged Catholics not to donate to diocesan causes this weekend.

The Field Hospital: Emerging ethnic patterns; the art of chant; Buffalo's lay Catholics respond to sex abuse crisis; the Matthew 25 award goes to Maine

Catholic activists from Uganda, Mexico and the Philippines described the impact the church has on LGBTQ rights, such as a total roadblock in Uganda, to signs of hope south of the U.S. border.

The Field Hospital: Utah parish supports suicide prevention; arson in Florida; debate in New York as four parishes are merging; Catholic Charities aids flood-affected in Mid-Missouri

The Field Hospital: At St. Malachy in the city and at suburban St. Thomas of Villanova, parishioners are pulling together to talk about sex abuse and the cover-up and to push for reform.

The fallout from the sex abuse crisis is still the top priority at the U.S. bishops' spring assembly, while a question for the future arises: How to win back millennial nones?

The Field Hospital: Catholic parishes are being asked to break down borders; Colorado ski towns transform with the seasons; exponential growth in eastern Tennessee

While Bishop Michael Bransfield led the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, it's the details of high living that spring out from an investigative report, details of which were published by The Washington Post June 5.

As the U.S. bishops prepare to meet June 11-14 in Baltimore, with sex abuse concerns at the top of their agenda, they don't lack for advice. Across the Catholic spectrum, groups and individuals have issued statements and offered declarations about how to fix the church.

The leader of Aid to the Church in Need International says that the world is ignoring anti-Christian violence. But right-wing populist movements, particularly in Europe, are exploiting the cause for political purposes.

 

The Field Hospital: Susan Bigelow Reynolds offers insight on changing the church; a police raid on three diocesan sites in Dallas shakes Catholics; a look at modern godparents; and more

Msgr. Anthony Figueiredo, McCarrick's former secretary, shared correspondence that he says show high-ranking church officials likely knew about restrictions that the then-cardinal ignored.

The Field Hospital: Donors to Catholic Charities don't want funds to go to Buffalo Diocese; evangelicals incorporate Catholic prayer styles; Catholic membership down in Michigan.

In 2002, David Spotanski, the then-vice chancellor for the Diocese of Belleville, Illinois, wrote a memo that felt so important that he went to then-Bishop Wilton Gregory's house and read it aloud. 

Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo, New York, has suspended three priests after seminarians complained about lewd comments allegedly made by the clergy at an April 11 party at Saints Peter and Paul Rectory in Hamburg, New York.

As Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory prepares to be consecrated archbishop of Washington May 21, Georgia attorney general Chris Carr announced that the Catholic Church in Georgia is being investigated by his office over its handling of sex abuse cases.

At first, parishioners welcomed the Institute of Christ the King, hoping that its presence would increase attendance and assure the parish's survival. But the group's Latin Mass and radical traditionalism are challenging the community's core Vatican II values. 

The Field Hospital: Parish accompanies those seeking U.S. citizenship; Pittsburgh consolidates parishes; Mass cancellation called providential after roof collapse; fake priest scammers.

The Field Hospital: The agreement between the Movement to Restore Trust and Bishop Richard Malone is the latest development in the crisis that has enveloped the Buffalo Diocese.

The Field Hospital: Catholic bishops defend those fearing deportation; closed parishes become low-income housing; serving the poor in a gentrifying neighborhood.