Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
What makes a politician Catholic? Not party affiliation, but promoting good,...
VATICAN CITY -- What makes a politician "Catholic" is not party affiliation, but dedication to promoting the common good, particularly through listening to and...
Give up gossiping for Lent, pope suggests
ROME -- Lent is a good time to concentrate on fighting the urge to gossip about others and instead trying to correct one's own...
Swiss bishops, religious orders strengthen abuse reporting mandate
VATICAN CITY — Just a few days after the Vatican summit on child protection and clerical sexual abuse, the bishops' conference and major religious...
Jailed Cardinal Pell subject to canonical investigation at the Vatican
VATICAN CITY -- The day Australian Cardinal George Pell was jailed in Melbourne after being found guilty of child sexual abuse, the Vatican announced...
Cardinal DiNardo: ‘Any loopholes’ in how bishops are treated ‘must be...
VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican summit on child protection and the clerical sexual abuse crisis affirmed the U.S. bishops' strong belief that bishops and...
Vatican summit: Cardinal tells gathering ‘We confess to shielding guilty, silencing...
VATICAN CITY -- In an opulent Vatican room designed in the 16th century for papal meetings with kings, a cardinal read, "We confess that...
Cardinal Cupich presents ‘metropolitan model’ as method of holding bishops accountable
VATICAN CITY -- The Catholic Church needs "new legal structures of accountability" for bishops accused of sexual abuse or of negligence in handling abuse...
Religious order leaders wary ‘sense of family’ contributes to slow response...
VATICAN CITY -- Twisted ideas of power and authority in the Catholic Church have contributed to the clerical sexual abuse crisis, leaders of religious...
Vatican summit preview: Bishops must be held accountable, claim ‘responsibility and...
VATICAN CITY -- When presented with an accusation that a priest has sexually abused a child, "whether it's criminal or malicious complicity and a...
McCarrick removed from the priesthood, found guilty of abuse
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has confirmed the removal from the priesthood of Theodore E. McCarrick, the 88-year-old former cardinal and archbishop of Washington.
The...