WASHINGTON -- The U.S. bishops as "are shamed by and sorry for the sins and omissions by Catholic priests and Catholic bishops" that have led to sexual abuse and caused great harm to many, said an Aug. 14 statement...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis is traveling to Ireland specifically for the World Meeting of Families, but the sex abuse crisis is dominating headlines before his Aug. 25-26 trip.
While coverage of clerical abuse in the United States, Chile and...
WASHINGTON -- Here is the text of a June 17, 2015, letter written by Father Boniface Ramsey, administrator of a parish in the New York Archdiocese, about Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick and claims of the archbishop's sexual improprieties with...
LIMA, Peru -- A Spanish Jesuit priest who was found murdered in the boarding school where he lived was buried Aug. 12 in Chiriaco, in the Apostolic Vicariate of Jaen in Peru's northern Amazon region.
Mourners carried Father Carlos Riudavets'...
"At Play in the Lions' Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan" by Jim Forest. Orbis Books (Maryknoll, New York, 2017). 352 pp., $28.
Jim Forest has given us an extraordinary biography and memoir of Father Dan Berrigan (1921-2016),...
Bishop Malooly will be the celebrant for Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church (Old Bohemia) in Warwick, Md. on Sept. 1 at 11 am in conjunction with the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington 150th Anniversary Historic Churches Pilgrimage. Guided tours...
A group of people are sitting on the beach a couple of blocks from where a New Jersey parish in recent years built a breathtaking new church. Going to church at the shore, where everything feels better, is made...
AMSTERDAM (CNS) -- An initiative to identify and properly treat children living with HIV has gained new momentum as international organizations and pharmaceutical companies respond to a Vatican push to look past profit to doing the right thing.
Few children...
Catholics believe that Jesus is really present within the church in its status as the people of God -- as stated in the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church ("Lumen Gentium") -- but more particularly within the...
Corpus Christi. Body and blood. Real presence.
When I was growing up and attending Lutheran Sunday school (until age 9), these terms were very unfamiliar to me, as I suspect they would be to most non-Catholic children. In my Sunday...