Latest Catholic News
NY bishops push for veto on bill allowing Plan B without prescription
New York’s eight Catholic bishops have urged Gov. George Pataki to veto a bill that would make the morning-after pill,... Read more
Fort Worth Bishop dies; priest scheduled to be installed as Coadjutor will now become ordinary
In an very unusual turn of events, Most Reverend Kevin William Vann, scheduled to be installed as Coadjutor Bishop of... Read more
Cardinal McCarrick says “evolution is fine--as long as there is room for a Creator”
Following a New York Times editorial by Vienna’s Cardinal Christoph Schonborn last week which stated that a “neo-Darwinist” idea of... Read more
Cardinal urges Senate to support umbilical cord blood stem-cell research
Cardinal William Keeler has urged the United States Senate to reject a bill supporting embryonic stem-cell research and pass other... Read more
Pope to write first encyclical during vacation
Sources close to the Holy See said this week Pope Benedict XVI, who began a 17-day vacation on Monday in... Read more
Argentinean bishop says education key to social integration
The president of Caritas Argentina, Bishop Jorge Casaretto, said last week that improving education is the key to overcoming “the... Read more
Paraguayan bishop says homosexual “marriage” is a fruit of an age of decadence
Bishop Claudio Gimenez Medina of Caacupe and President of the Paraguayan Bishops’ Conference told the Fides news agency this week... Read more
Cardinal Rivera says Mexico still in need of true religious freedom
The Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, said this week the country is still in need of true... Read more
Concern in Uruguay over decision by cable ops to cancel EWTN
Popular Jesuit priest Father Horacio Bojorge denounced the decision by two cable operators in Montevideo to drop EWTN from their... Read more
Canadian Senate to hear bishops, experts on same-sex marriage bill
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has been given one last chance to argue its case against the legal... Read more
Fatima holds vigil for victims of London's terrorist attacks
The international shrine of Our Lady, located in Fatima, Portugal, will hold an evening prayer vigil today in remembrance of... Read more
WHO puts abortifacients on essential drug list
The World Health Organization has added two abortifacient drugs on its list of essential medicines for developing countries, says a... Read more
Catholic family conference opens on weekend
In an effort to strengthen family life and society through the Catholic faith, a number of organizations have collaborated to... Read more
Pro-life expert decries ‘unconstitutionality’ ruling on partial birth abortion; calls for judges, not activists
In response to a federal appeals court which recently ruled that the U.S.’s ban on partial birth abortion is unconstitutional,... Read more
US not secular but ‘interfaith’ nation, says bishop Wensky
The Founding Fathers of the United States were right is setting up a limited government, yet these checks and balances... Read more
Anglican priests may defect to Catholic Church if women bishops approved, warned cleric
A senior cleric in the Church of England has warned that he and as many as 800 other priests may... Read more
Vatican calls for eradication of illegal arms trade
Speaking to a group at the United Nations yesterday, the Vatican’s Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer to the U.N. called... Read more
New Vatican document calls prostitution an ‘act of violence’ and a ‘form of slavery’
In a new document released yesterday the Vatican called prostitution a “form of modern day slavery” and an act of... Read more
Mexican bishops: life is a gift, no right to die
The Bishops Conference of Mexico issued a statement last week reiterating that life is a gift from God which man... Read more
Navarro-Valls reveals details about passing of John Paul II
In an interview with the Italian daily L’Espresso, the director of the Holy See Press Office, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, revealed a... Read more
