WASHINGTON -- The supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, calling the organization "an American Catholic cultural icon," said senators have no business questioning a federal judicial nominee's membership in the Knights over its support for church teaching on...
DUBLIN — The primate of All-Ireland insisted that the country's new abortion law that took effect Jan. 1 has "no moral force" and it "must be resisted" by Catholics.
Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, who also is president...
VATICAN CITY — The clerical abuse crisis and the "crisis of credibility" it created for the U.S. bishops have led to serious divisions within the U.S. church and to a temptation to look for administrative solutions to problems that...
WASHINGTON -- German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising called for change in long-standing church tradition as the German bishops' conference prepares for a workshop debate to "review" the issue of celibacy for priests.
In his homily at New...
VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church teaches that sterilization is morally unacceptable, but a hysterectomy could be morally acceptable if the uterus could not sustain a pregnancy, said the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Affirming past indications as...
January dawns, fresh and clean. The beginning of a new year.
Although Advent is technically our new year in the church, January offers another jump-start -- a chance to change and a renewed resolve to eat better, exercise more or...
DUBLIN — Women who worked in Ireland’s “Magdalene laundries” but were denied compensation under the state’s Magdalene Restorative Justice program have won their long-running battle to have their applications reassessed.
New legislation will ensure that payments to the women, many...
VATICAN CITY — Even though today’s modern tools and technologies are hardly human, the Pontifical Academy for Life is zeroing in on the world of robots and machines powered by artificial intelligence.
While the academy’s focus is on the protection...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Catholic bishops are taking part in a closed-door retreat Jan. 2-8 at Mundelein Seminary at the University of St. Mary of the Lake near Chicago to prayerfully consider ways to rebuild trust over the clergy...
DUMFRIES, Va. — For high school student Rebecca Pohlmeier, it all started with her love of St. Therese of Lisieux and drawing.
Now Pohlmeier, a student at John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries, has a business, Glory...