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Chicago priest arrested in Miami has ties to shuttered program

Sep 4, 2018

Two priests from the Archdiocese of Chicago were arrested Monday in Miami, after the men were reportedly found engaged in... Read more

Bishop highlights need for just wages in Labor Day message

Sep 3, 2018

The provision of just wages for all workers is a critical component of a moral economy, said the head of... Read more

How Catholic Charities is tackling California's housing crisis

Sep 2, 2018

By Perry West

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara has partnered with the local county to launch a shared housing program, connecting renters with... Read more

Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark moderates a panel at the 2018 World Meeting of Families.

Cardinal Tobin reportedly declined to investigate McCarrick misconduct rumors

Sep 1, 2018

Cardinal Joseph Tobin told a journalist Friday that he heard rumors shortly after his 2017 arrival in the Archdiocese of... Read more

Pope Francis in Rome, Aug. 11, 2018.

Archbishop Vigano recounts Pope Francis' meeting with Kim Davis

Sep 1, 2018

The former nuncio to the US wrote Thursday his account of Pope Francis’ 2015 meeting with Kim Davis, a county... Read more

What lay Catholics are doing in the face of the sex abuse scandal

Sep 1, 2018

By Mary Farrow

When sex abuse scandals first rocked the Catholic Church in the United States in 2002, Miriel Thomas Reneau was young,... Read more

Bishop Andrew Cozzens. CNA file photo.

Bishop Cozzens: Nienstedt investigation was 'doomed to fail'

Aug 31, 2018

Auxiliary Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis released Friday his account of a now-controversial... Read more

Confessional.

Australian bishops defend seal of confession in response to sex abuse report

Aug 31, 2018

By Courtney Mares

Australian bishops have accepted the vast majority of recommendations made after a five-year investigation into sexual abuse in the country.  Read more

Jim Towey, president of Ave Maria University. Photo courtesy of Ave Maria University.

Ave Maria president amends statement denouncing 'defiance' of pope

Aug 31, 2018

One day after issuing a statement denouncing what he called the 'defiance' of Pope Francis by “so-called conservative Catholics”, the... Read more

Pope Francis greets Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Oct. 27, 2017.

The Viganò report, and what Wuerl didn’t know

Aug 31, 2018

By Ed Condon

On Aug. 25, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released a 11-page “testimony” which made specific allegations against a number of high-ranking... Read more

2018 Marian pilgrimage in Centralia, Penn. Photo courtesy of Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.

Hundreds gather for Marian pilgrimage to Pennsylvania town on fire

Aug 30, 2018

By Perry West

Centralia, Pennsylvania, is on fire … literally: a coal fire has been raging underneath the town for more than 50... Read more

Cheyenne diocese finds credible third allegation of child abuse by retired bishop

Aug 30, 2018

The Diocese of Cheyenne announced Wednesday that it has found credible a third allegation of child sexual abuse committed by... Read more

Critics ask Calif. governor to veto 'shortsighted' college abortion drug bill

Aug 30, 2018

California Gov. Jerry Brown should veto a bill that mandates abortion drugs at state university campus health centers, said pro-life... Read more

Supreme Court denies relief to Philadelphia Catholic foster care agency

Aug 30, 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Wednesday to compel the city of Philadelphia to resume working with Catholic Social Services (CSS)... Read more

Planned Parenthood logo on one of their centers.

South Carolina rules Planned Parenthood to stay a state 'family planning provider'

Aug 30, 2018

A judge has ruled that Planned Parenthood’s designation as a “family planning provider” for South Carolina’s Medicaid program does not... Read more

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.

US bishops continue to respond to Viganò testimony

Aug 30, 2018

Since Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler first responded Saturday to the former US nuncio's testimony which alleged sex abuse cover-up... Read more

Archbishop Theodore McCarrick at St. Peter's Basilica.

Seminarians were McCarrick aides amid abuse investigation

Aug 30, 2018

By Ed Condon

The Archdiocese of Washington has confirmed that seminarians were permitted to serve as assistants to Archbishop Theodore McCarrick while the... Read more

Ave Maria University.

Ave Maria president denounces 'defiance' of pope by 'conservative Catholics'

Aug 30, 2018

Jim Towey, president of Ave Maria University, said Wednesday that he unhesitatingly supports Pope Francis, in the wake of Archbishop... Read more

Catholic judge defends death penalty sentence on theological grounds

Aug 29, 2018

A Catholic judge in Ohio who recently sentenced a man to death defended his decision on both legal and theological... Read more

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago. CNA file photo

Cupich says interview edited unfairly

Aug 29, 2018

The Archbishop of Chicago said Wednesday a recent television interview was edited in a way that inaccurately portrayed him.  Read more