By Carl E. Olson | This article originally appeared at Catholic World Report and is reprinted with permission. Philip F. Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for decades...
By K.V. Turley | “LOOSE! … HEAVE! … ATTACK! … INTO THE MOOT!” Suddenly the men roaring these words fell silent. They had been told to do so by a mild-mannered American sitting listening intently to...
By Jim Schroeder | As Catholics, we are all familiar with the way the Church attempts to preserve the sanctity and dignity of human life. In various ways, we are taught that the Church believes that...
Following the publication of a blistering report detailing decades of clerical sexual abuse and cover-up in Pennsylvania, the Vatican has voiced shame and has sent a message to victims, saying Pope...
After months of leaving the “sostituto,” or deputy, post at the Vatican Secretariat of State vacant, Pope Francis Wednesday tapped Venezuelan Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra for the position – a...
After a major bridge collapsed in Genoa on Tuesday, killing 38 and leaving many others wounded or missing, Pope Francis offered prayers for the victims and all those effected by the disaster...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Reuters video By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a tweet, a U.S. bishop said he had spent the night reading a grand jury report detailing seven decades of child sex abuse claims...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In the wake of a grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse in six dioceses in Pennsylvania, a Vatican spokesman called the abuses described in the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy St. John Vianney Parish By Kelly Sankowski PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. (CNS) -- For many parishioners of St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Prince Frederick, the violence...