Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday urged countries to greatly improve their welcome to migrants and stop collective expulsions, saying migrants’ dignity […]
Source: The Guardian By Melissa Davey and agencies The archbishop of the archdiocese of Melbourne, Denis Hart, said he would risk going to jail rather than report allegations of child sexual abuse raised […]
Source: The Guardian Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart has said he’ll risk going to jail rather than report what’s said to him in the sacrament of confession, even if what’s confessed […]
Source: Boston Globe By Michael Rezendes | Photos by Suzanne Kreiter | Videos by Emily Zendt, Globe Staff HE CARRIED HIS DOUBTS and disappointment across miles and decades, from childhood to […]
Source: USA Today BY Haidee V Eugenio, Steve Limtiaco and Dana M Williams, Pacific Daily News Editor’s note: Some details in this report, while important to the understanding of the story, are […]
Source: USA today Haidee V Eugenio, Steve Limtiaco and Dana M Williams, Pacific Daily News Editor’s note: Some details in this report, while important to the understanding of the story, are graphic. Also, the […]
Source: Dallas News By Claire Ballor, Breaking news reporter Earlier this year, Pope Francis wrote a letter to young Catholics around the world and asked them to share “your voice, your sensitivities and […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Eoin Blackwell HuffPost Australia Pell appeared in Australian court on Wednesday for a brief preliminary hearing to set the pace of upcoming proceedings. MARK DADSWELL / REUTERSGeorge Pell […]
Source: Huffington Post By Kerry Walters; Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Gettysburg College; Catholic priest On 22 July each year, the Christian community venerates a saint who is the single best argument […]
Source: SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST By Viola Zhou Observers question whether interpretations of dogma can conform with the nation’s needs China has asked its officially sanctioned Catholic body to interpret the […]
Source: CNN By Ben Westcott, Laura Smith-Spark and Sara Mazloumsaki, CNN As many as 547 former students of the Catholic Regensburger Domspatzen choir school in Germany were abused physically, and […]
Source: Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A New York man is suing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston for sexual abuse he says he suffered decades ago at a church-affiliated […]
Source: Associated Press By MICHAEL TARM CHICAGO (AP) — The Claretians Roman Catholic order has settled a lawsuit from a man sexually abused as a 6-year-old by a teenager who […]
Source: Associated Press By STEPHEN CALLEJA VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Lawmakers in predominantly Roman Catholic Malta legalized same-sex marriage Wednesday, joining much of Western Europe by replacing the traditional “you […]
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has added a fourth pathway to possible sainthood. Until now, gaining consideration for sainthood in the Catholic Church required martyrdom, living […]
Source: CNN By Joshua Berlinger and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Updated 1422 GMT (2222 HKT) July 10, 2017 (CNN)Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic and a key adviser to Pope Francis, has touched down […]
Source: BBC Bread used to celebrate the Eucharist during Roman Catholic Mass must not be gluten-free – although it may be made from genetically modified organisms, the Vatican has ruled. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Religion News Service: He’s rescued refugees, opened the Vatican’s doors to the homeless and told Catholics there’s no sin God won’t forgive. But there is another streak to the Argentine pontiff that has been on display in recent days: A willingness to flex papal muscle and lay down the law. […]