By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, May 30, 2024 / 18:20 pm Church leaders risk sowing scandal and confusion, experts say, by allowing a female monk who has been living as a male for years — and who recently publicly announced her transgender identity — to continue presenting herself as a man. …

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Nov 12, 2021 / 19:05 pm An outspoken critic of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ draft document on the Eucharist predicts it will be adopted at their fall assembly next week, though he intends to vote against it. “I’m afraid it is,” Bishop John Stowe, OFM …

by Shannon Mullen, Joe Bukuras Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 14, 2021 / 08:10 am Priests of the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 may not minister to the sick, elderly, and homebound, Bishop John Stowe has directed. The policy was announced during a Saturday vigil …

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON  — Pope Francis has named Auxiliary Bishop Thomas A. Daly of San Jose, California, to head the Diocese of Spokane, Washington, and Conventual Franciscan Father John Stowe to be bishop of Lexington, Kentucky. Bishop Daly, 54, has been an auxiliary of the San Jose Diocese …