Source: CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden was denied communion Sunday at a Catholic church in South Carolina over his support for abortion rights. Father Robert Morey, the […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic bishops from across the Amazon called Saturday for the ordination of married men as priests to address the clergy shortage in the region, an historic […]
Catholic bishops approved a proposal allowing some married men to be ordained as priests in the Amazon region, where there is a shortage of priests. Pope Francis would have to […]
CNN: At least 166 children were abused by dozens of Catholic priests in Colorado since 1950, a report released Wednesday says. The 263-page report details decades of misconduct and reveals […]
Source: BBC News By Lebo Diseko Catholic bishops from around the world are meeting at the Vatican to discuss the future of the Church in the Amazon. Over the next […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Eduardo Campos Lima SÃO PAULO (RNS) — While the most vocal opponents of the Catholic Church’s upcoming Amazon synod have been conservative Catholic cardinals such […]
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed in the hearts of those who accepted him compassion and mercy. But monasticism which they invented for themselves — We […]
By Corina Knoll The Rochester diocese’s move has left many who were promised justice under New York’s Child Victims Act feeling betrayed. Peter Saracino was in elementary school when, […]
Source: The Guardian Former Vatican treasurer has maintained his innocence after the Victorian court of appeal ruled two-to-one against his appeal • George Pell’s failed appeal and why his chances […]
Source: The Washington Post It was billed as a holy journey, a pilgrimage with West Virginia Bishop Michael J. Bransfield to “pray, sing and worship” at the National Shrine in […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis said Wednesday that he has opened an investigation — the first known of its kind under a new […]
Source: The Daily Currant A young Christian boy who briefly died on a surgeon’s operating table this weekend says he met someone named Allah in heaven. Bobby Anderson, the son […]
Source: Associated Press By MICHAEL REZENDES and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Joshua K. Love sits in the living room of his home in Greenwood, Miss., Saturday, June 8, 2019. Love says […]
Source: The New York Times By Ian Johnson A state-sanctioned Catholic church in Shanghai. A deal in 2018 aimed at ending decades of animosity and estrangement between “underground” Catholics loyal […]
Source: The Columbus Dispatch By Danae King The Columbus Dispatch The popular notion that more and more women in their 20s and 30s are flocking to the cloistered life does […]
Pope Francis says key to Christian faith is to ‘obey God before men’. Source: Religion News Service By Claire Giangravé VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis prayed for the strength […]
Source: Review of Religion The Shroud of Turin has been a source of fascination for the academic world for hundreds of years. The ‘alleged’ burial cloth of Jesus Christ (as) […]
Source; Associated Press By MICHAEL BIESECKER AGAT, Guam (AP) — Walter Denton wanted to grow up to be just like Father Tony Apuron, until the night he says the parish […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian appeals court Wednesday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children, in a decision […]
Source: The National Catholic Register By Solène Tadié The Italian Capuchin who is said to have inspired the creation of the world-famous beverage was beatified by John Paul II in […]