BOSTON -- Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley said "a major gap still exists" when it comes to the Catholic Church's policies on sexual abuse and conduct as it pertains, not just to priests, but in cases of accusations against...
ASTON, Pa. – Sister Anna Hope Bauerlin, who grew up in Wilmington and was a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 70 years, died July 24 in Crozier Hospital. She was 93.
Sister Hope was...
BOSTON -- Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley called for "three specific actions" to immediately address allegations of sexual abuse of minors and "sexual improprieties" with seminarians made against Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, starting with "a fair and rapid adjudication...
Diocese of Wilmington priest John A. Sarro, under indictment for having sexual intercourse with a minor in the early 1990s, died on Monday at a nursing home, according to diocesan spokesman Robert G. Krebs.
Sarro, 76, had suffered a lengthy...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The presence in the United States of about 3,000 priests and religious from countries in Africa is a great contribution to the U.S., said Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey.
That fact "makes me...
VATICAN CITY — A leading expert on the cloth believed to be the burial shroud of Jesus dismissed a new study claiming that blood patterns on the shroud are not consistent with those left by a crucified person.
In an...
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. — Although Adrian Paz of Denison, Iowa, was pleased that attendance had increased at this year’s Hispanic charismatic congress, real-world issues may have kept some away.
“Word was there might be ICE agents coming today,” he...
WASHINGTON -- Amid controversy caused by a Vatican official's assertions that priests "have no credibility" in marriage preparation, representatives from dioceses across the United States maintain that both priests and laity have integral roles in the process.
"It's not an...
MANCHESTER, England -- A priest who offered a rosary and benediction service in reparation for a gay pride parade in Scotland has been fired as a university chaplain.
Glasgow Caledonian University announced that Father Mark Morris would not be returning...
BALTIMORE -- As a 44-person choir rehearsed "O God, How Manifest Are Your Works" before a celebration concert, Paulist Father Ricky Manalo bounced on his feet as he stood next to the piano.
After the choir ran through his song,...