VATICAN CITY – For Vatican and Irish participants, the two-day meeting on the handling of priestly sex abuse cases was a major accomplishment, combining a frank admission of mismanagement with truly collaborative discussions on how to avoid such mistakes in the future.Read More
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Members of the USA Bobsled & Skeleton Federation were surprised and grateful at the welcome they received when they spent four days training at a Catholic school in Vancouver before the Feb. 12-28 Winter Olympics.Read More
WASHINGTON – In the weeks since Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake, major Catholic relief organizations have been on the ground in Haiti helping with medical care and food provisions, and financial donations have been pouring in from Catholic dioceses, schools and colleges.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Several members of the Pontifical Academy for Life have suggested that the academy’s president, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, be replaced because he “does not understand what absolute respect for innocent human lives entails.”Read More
Carolyn and Karl Schumaker will go anywhere to protect and pray for life. The parishioners of St. Mary’s in Annapolis drove through more than an hour of evening traffic to take part in a “40 Days for Life” gathering at St. Agnes parish in Catonsville Feb. 16.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will create six new saints Oct. 17, including Blessed Mary MacKillop, who will be Australia’s first saint, and the Canadian Blessed Andre Bessette, who will be the first saint of the Holy Cross Brothers.Read More
With the beginning of the end of the small group adult series Why Catholic? now here, Sharon Bogusz is not getting wistful. Instead, she’s hopeful about the future of Catholicism.Read More
WASHINGTON – Nineteen Catholic scholars of theology and history are asking Pope Benedict XVI to slow the process of the sainthood cause of Pope Pius XII.Read More
WASHINGTON – Although the 1995 encyclical “Ut Unum Sint” by Pope John Paul II helped with Catholic-Orthodox relations, more progress could be made with a nudge from the man currently occupying the chair of Peter, according to an Orthodox bishop who has been part of Catholic-Orthodox dialogues for more than a decade.Read More
WASHINGTON – It took a major earthquake, but momentum is building to cancel all of the remaining debt that Haiti has taken on from several international financial institutions.Read More