Taking the Catholic Pulse

Support Us
About Us
- Contact Details
- Advertising

Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Catholic News Service

Latest Stories

Most Popular

© 2026 Crux Now Media, LLC

Privacy & Cookie Policy

About Crux
Contact Us
Advertising
Videos
Support Us
FAQs

Podcast:

Crux’s Newsletters

Today's top stories delivered straight into your inbox.

Email*

I consent to the terms of the Privacy Policy.*

Author's Posts

German Catholics’ spiritual conviction tested, says prominent lay leader

Mar 20, 2019
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Cardinal Marx: Church must have serious debate on celibacy, role of women

Mar 15, 2019
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Austrian Catholics start year of celebrations for Emperor Maximilian

Jan 9, 2019
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Finnish bishop remains hospitalized with serious head injury after fall

Jan 4, 2019
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

German cardinal urges change in tradition ahead of celibacy discussion

Jan 4, 2019
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Catholics lead effort that paved way for law on aid to Mideast Christians

Dec 20, 2018
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Postwar orphans were victims of German clergy abuse

Dec 14, 2018
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

German prosecutors launch crackdown on Church sex abuse

Dec 7, 2018
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Berlin Archdiocese hosts banquet for the poor

Nov 20, 2018
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

‘Toward a more perfect union’: Pope Leo XIV on 250 years of US independence

Jul 4
Crux Now Staff

Pope Leo XIV pays tribute at the cemetery and on little Joussef's grave, in Lampedusa, Sicily, southern Italy, Saturday, July 4, 2026, during a one-day pastoral visit to an island that has become a symbol of the risks faced by migrants trying to reach Europe by sea.(Credit: Pool Photo/Ciro Fusco, Via AP.)

Pope marks July 4 by praying in Lampedusa for migrants who died seeking freedom and prosperity

Jul 4
Nicole Winfield,
Andrea Rosa

Pope Leo XIV waves during the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Monday, June 29, 2026. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope urges US to recommit to founding ideas of protecting life, human dignity on 250th anniversary

Jul 4
Nicole Winfield

Newly consecrated bishops, from left, Pascal Schreiber, Michael Goldade, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry and Marc Hanappier, wearing their miters and holding their pastoral staffs, pray at the end of their consecration ceremony in a tent set up outside the Society of St. Pius X seminary in Econe, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (Credit: Baz Ratner/AP.)

Catholic group that defied pope and caused schism defends its actions and casts itself as the victim

Jul 4
Nicole Winfield

Latest

‘Toward a more perfect union’: Pope Leo XIV on 250 years of US independence

Schismatic Spanish nuns could get 12 years for mistreatment of elderly sisters

Jul 2
Fionn Shiner

SSPX declared schismatic, clerics excommunicated

Jul 2
Christopher R. Altieri

DDF issues guidelines for return of SSPX clergy, laity to communion

Jul 2
Christopher R. Altieri

Father John Ubel, pastor of the Church of Saint Agnes, processes into the sanctuary with altar servers at the start of one of the Catholic parish’s Latin Masses in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday, June 28, 2026. (Credit: Giovanna Dell’Orto/AP.)

Latin Mass, but faithful to the pope: A Minnesota church shows a different way during schism crisis

Jul 3
Giovanna Dell'Orto