Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service
New York bishop removed from public ministry pending review of abuse...
WASHINGTON -- A New York auxiliary bishop has been removed from public ministry pending a Vatican review of a decades-old accusation of sexual abuse...
Catholic University students call for dean ouster over Kavanaugh tweets
WASHINGTON -- Some students, alumni and faculty members at The Catholic University of America in Washington are calling for the resignation of the dean...
Social justice Catholic group’s letter objects to Kavanaugh nomination
WASHINGTON — A Sept. 4 letter signed by more than 1,500 Catholic nuns, priests and other church leaders from around the country addressed to...
Protesters call on Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl to resign
WASHINGTON – As the Sunday Mass crowd left the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle Aug. 26, Judy Lorenz held a large poster board...
DMV parishioner: ‘I believe we can do something as a flock’
WASHINGTON -- It has been a summer of anguish and shame in Washington, and some of it has nothing to do with politicians.
The summer...
Survivors call for federal, state investigations to root out clergy abusers
WASHINGTON -- Some victims of clergy sex abuse and their supporters are calling on federal and state entities to investigate sex abuse within the...
Report details rape of children, culture of secrecy that fanned it
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The report begins dramatically, imploring its readers: "We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this."
Plain and simple,...
Rector placed on leave as Cardinal O’Malley orders review at seminary
WASHINGTON -- The Archbishop of Boston said in an Aug. 10 statement that he has asked the rector of its main archdiocesan St. John...
Salvadoran asylum seekers sent out of U.S. are returned by order...
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge Aug. 9 ordered Aug. 9 the immediate return to the U.S. of two Salvadoran asylum seekers, a mother and...
Former sacristan remembers life with Oscar Romero
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Marcelo Perdomo didn't think an earthly brush with holiness would take place in his native El Salvador next to the parish...