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Steubenville, Columbus announce merger talks back on at request of pope’s envoy

NEW YORK – About a year after the former bishop of the Diocese of Steubenville, Ohio, publicly announced that a merger with the neighboring Diocese of Columbus was on the table, generating swift backlash from local priests and laity, the two dioceses have announced that merger talks have resumed. In a joint statement published Dec.…

Steubenville, Columbus announce merger talks back on at request of pope’s envoy

Summary of This Is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival by Bishop Robert Barron

Introduction Bishop Robert Barron wrote this book “to accompany the Eucharistic Revival” project in the USA, which was born out of a response to a 2019 Pew study that revealed only 1/3rd of those questioned subscribed to the Catholic Church’s official teaching that Jesus is really, truly, and substantially present under the signs or appearances […]

Summary of This Is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival by Bishop Robert Barron

UK study: church lockdowns during pandemic caused mental, physical harm

From The Catholic Herald:  The closure of Catholic churches during the 2020 lockdown contributed to widespread mental and physical suffering, according to the results of a new study. The survey carried out by the Catholic Union found 62 per cent of people reporting that their mental and physical wellbeing were adversely effected directly as a […]

UK study: church lockdowns during pandemic caused mental, physical harm

The miraculous story of how St. Nicholas became a bishop

While St. Nicholas is widely known for his love of gift-giving, he was also a courageous bishop during a difficult time in the Church. St. Nicholas was the bishop of Myra. a city now located in Turkey, in the early 4th century, The medieval compilation entitled The Golden Legend explains how he was miraculously chosen […]

The miraculous story of how St. Nicholas became a bishop

Parish priest in Nigeria abducted while answering sick call

Agenzia Fides, the information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies, gathered witness accounts of the kidnapping, indicating that gunmen attacked the priest, known locally as “Father Ichie,” along with another person, Uchenna Newman, as they got out of their car at an intersection to do some shopping during a stop while responding to a sick…

Parish priest in Nigeria abducted while answering sick call

Philippine president blames foreign militants for a bombing that killed 4 Christian worshippers

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president blamed “foreign terrorists” for a bomb blast that killed four people Sunday, wounded dozens of other Catholic worshippers in the south and sparked a security alarm, including in the capital, Manila, where state forces were put on alert. The suspected bomb, which the police said was made from a…

Philippine president blames foreign militants for a bombing that killed 4 Christian worshippers

A Statement From Church Militant

The following is a Statement released by Church Militant via email.

Here are some additional details about which many of you have been inquiring.

The officers of the St. Michael’s Media board are: President Michael Sherry, Treasurer Philip Haapala and Secretary Mary McCann. The board is working to bring new, non-employee members onto the board.

We have hired an outside source to conduct a nationwide search for our new executive director. And in the coming weeks, we will be excited to announce the new department heads in our newly restructured organization.

Church Militant will continue to produce the same content as before, but with a renewed focus on the interaction of Catholicism with secular society. We will seek to emphasize the love and forgiveness of Christ in our presentations and will be reaching out to like-minded people of goodwill to partner with us. We will continue to address theological, cultural, political, and social issues relevant to Christians from an orthodox Catholic perspective.

Various new programs are in the planning stages, including a long-form documentary on forgiveness, as well as a program on the Mystical City of God. While comprehensive specifics of additional programming and content cannot be offered at this time, we will continue to offer Headlines, Rome Dispatch, The Download, morning and evening prayer, daily news articles, and other content our viewers expect and appreciate. Given the recent success of our Ephesians master class with Chris Plance, we hope to do more like it in the future.

We will also be continuing our special events including our Retreats at Sea, the Deposit of Faith Coalition press conferences, and our Strength & Honor Men’s Conference in 2024.

The board realizes it needs to become more aggressive and focused to move forward and provide the Catholic content the apostolate’s donors and supporters deserve and demand. The board is dedicated to initiating best practices and building appropriate governance structures to allow it to accomplish this.

Church Militant will march forward in its mission with a renewed focus, dedicated purpose, and more robust management structure.
We humbly ask for your patience as we grow together in our shared goal of defending our holy Catholic faith and saving souls.

And, as always, we ask for your prayers. Be assured of ours.
 
To Jesus through Mary,
 
Mike Sherry, Board President
St. Michael’s Media

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St. Francis Xavier

A young Spanish gentleman, in the dangerous days of the Reformation, was making a name for himself as a Professor of Philosophy in the University of Paris, and had seemingly no higher aim, when St. Ignatius, of Loyola, won him to heavenly thoughts. After a brief apostolate amongst his countrymen in Rome, he was sent […]

St. Francis Xavier

Expelled from the Vortex: Eight alleged whistleblowers fired, claim sexual and financial misdeeds by Voris

This situation is a mess.

By Damien Fisher Church Militant’s board covered up for founder Michael Voris as he allegedly groomed male staffers while openly living a double life and paying staffers “poverty wages” while giving himself raises, according to several ex-employees who say they were fired for speaking out this week. “The very cover-up tactics that Church Militant has […]

Expelled from the Vortex: Eight alleged whistleblowers fired, claim sexual and financial misdeeds by Voris

At least three killed in explosion during Mass on Philippine campus

By Shannon Mullen Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 3, 2023 / 00:03 am At least three people were killed and others injured Sunday morning in an explosion during a Mass held in a university gymnasium in the southern Philippines. Authorities are investigating whether pro-Islamic State militants were responsible for the blast, which set off a panic […]

At least three killed in explosion during Mass on Philippine campus