Source: NPR A Scottish archbishop designed the app. It helps you find the closest spot to go to confession and Mass. The head of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communication called the app “imaginative.” DAVID GREENE, HOST: Good morning. I’m David Greene. If you are Catholic and have sinned, well, there’s […]
Source: Huffington Post Pope Francis on Monday extended indefinitely to all Roman Catholic priests the power to forgive abortion, a right previously reserved for bishops or special confessors in most parts of the world. Francis, who has made a more inclusive and forgiving Roman Catholic Church a characteristic of his […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the evangelical Protestant movement, see Confessing Movement. In Roman Catholic settings, the traditional style of confessional allows the priest, seated in the center, to […]
NY times: VATICAN CITY — The Roman Catholic Church will allow priests throughout the world to grant absolution for abortion, the Vatican said on Monday, making permanent a policy that […]
Source: The Guardian The Catholic church has doubled the maximum compensation payment to people sexually abused as children by clergy in the Melbourne archdiocese to $150,000. Abuse survivors who have already received payments under the Melbourne Response can have their cases reviewed to determine if they are eligible for additional […]
Source: RNS By David Gibson VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis is firing back at foes of his efforts to make the Catholic Church more open and pastoral in its ministry, telling an interviewer that “they are acting in bad faith to foment divisions.” The pontiff’s lengthy interview in Avvenire, the […]
Source: RNS By Steve Gorman (Reuters) The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has offered to pay $132 million to settle hundreds of child sex abuse claims against its clergy under a revised bankruptcy reorganization plan filed in court on Tuesday (Nov. 15). The archdiocese, one of 15 […]
Source: Associated Press By RACHEL ZOLL BALTIMORE (AP) — The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops on Monday urged President-elect Donald Trump to adopt humane policies toward immigrants and refugees, as church […]
Source: The New York Times By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN MINNEAPOLIS — Emma Blom grew up in the Scandinavian heartland of rural Minnesota, reliably attending her small town’s Lutheran church. She […]
Source: Associated Press LOURDES, France (AP) — France’s Roman Catholic Church is trying to make amends for years of silence surrounding pedophilia among priests with a day of prayer and fasting for victims of sex abuse — and to fix the problem, notably with a prevention program for priests. Bishops […]
Source: The San Diego Union Tribune By Joshua Stewart Between requests for prayers for the sick and a notice for an upcoming chastity luncheon, a newsletter from a Catholic church in […]
By Delia Gallagher, CNN Rome (CNN) Pope Francis’ resounding no to women becoming priests may come as a surprise considering the popular narrative of him as a reformer who seeks […]
Source: Reuters By Alistair Scrutton and Philip Pullella | MALMO, SWEDEN Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Tuesday for Sweden’s tiny Catholic community, made up of many refugees and migrants, praising […]
Source: RNS By Jacob Lupfer (RNS) On Monday (Oct. 31) in Sweden, Pope Francis will take part in an ecumenical service commemorating the beginning of the Protestant Reformation’s 500th year. […]
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO and GAIA PIANIGIANIOCT. 25, 2016 An urn containing the cremated remains of a Roman Catholic priest during a funeral Mass in Mexico last month. The church allows cremation as long as it is done in accordance with Christian doctrine.CreditAlan Ortega/Reuters VATICAN CITY — Ashes to ashes is […]
By Mónica Zorita de la Morena Djibouti, Djibouti, Oct 25, 2016 / 12:03 am (Aid to the Church in Need).- “Even if work has to be done silently, it is […]
Source: Yahoo News By Amy Sullivan Senior editor Well, that was awkward. If you’ve ever squirmed through a mean-spirited, ill-advised wedding toast delivered by somebody’s inappropriate, drunk uncle, then you’ll have some sense of the feeling in the room at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Thursday night, where Donald Trump and […]
Source: The New York Times By JASON HOROWITZ PAOLI, Pa. — Since the election of Ronald Reagan, white Roman Catholics have flocked to Republican nominees for a raft of reasons, […]
Source: BBC By James Reynolds “That is a possessed woman there,” says Fr Vincenzo Taraborelli as he points up to an 18th Century fresco in his Roman church. “They’re holding […]
Source: The Guardian The papal envoy to Syria has been named as one of a group of new cardinals announced on Sunday by Pope Francis, including 13 who are eligible […]