Broadway play about anti-Christian Mary closes early

May 6, 2013 - 03:52 pm .- A Broadway show that depicted the Virgin Mary as a doubting skeptic who thought Jesus died in vain failed to attract a large audience and closed on Sunday less than two weeks after it opened.  

Military archdiocese objects to Catholic 'extremist' label

Apr 9, 2013 - 04:10 pm .- The Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services has said it is “astounded” at a U.S. Army Reserve training brief that listed Catholics alongside “violent and extremist” groups.

Spanish youths attack Catholic school, threaten to burn priests alive

Oct 19, 2012 - 10:40 am .- A group of young people shouting, “Where are the priests? We’re going to burn them at the stake,” attacked the Mary Help of Christians Salesian School in Merida, Spain, leaving one teacher wounded.

Abortion activists in Argentina target young Catholics

Oct 11, 2012 - 12:04 pm .- Around 500 abortion activists in Posadas hurled insults, spat and threw paint on young Catholics who prayed the Rosary outside the local cathedral and prevented the demonstrators from entering.

Catholics in India calling for protest of 'objectionable' Bollywood film

Sep 25, 2012 - 02:24 am .- Catholic groups in India have called for the protest of an upcoming Hindi film if scenes portraying believers and clergy in an offensive manner are not removed from the film.

Vandals strike historic Santa Cruz church

May 9, 2012 - 07:09 am .- The parishioners of Holy Cross Church and the Diocese of Monterey, Calif. are “shocked and saddened” after a Sunday vandalism spree damaged irreplaceable items like a baptismal font that the famous missionary Bl. Junipero Serra brought to the area in 1791.