WASHINGTON -- A federal judge Aug. 9 ordered Aug. 9 the immediate return to the U.S. of two Salvadoran asylum seekers, a mother and her daughter, who were unexpectedly deported from Texas to their native country.
The ruling came as...
The charges leveled against a former cardinal, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, are sickening and almost unbearable to read. It's horrible enough that former seminarians allege he invited them to a beach house with the certainty that he was always...
Sister M. Lisbeth Hartnett, who taught in the Diocese of Wilmington in the 1960s, died Aug. 8 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Scranton, Pa. A member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, she...
ROME -- Here is a timeline of key events in the life of Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick since his ordination as a priest for the Archdiocese of New York 60 years ago. It includes information on his episcopal appointments...
SKARO, Alberta — It’s easy to drive by the stone grotto at the Skaro shrine for those who don’t know its history.
Tucked in a corner between two rural highways, due north of Lamont and 50 miles northeast of Edmonton,...
MAGNOLIA – After three years without an affiliation in interscholastic athletics, St. Thomas More Academy will compete as a member of the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference when high school sports get started next month. The Ravens become the...
VATICAN CITY -- A Jesuit priest who has been on the frontline of advocating for survivors of clerical sexual abuse and developing detailed programs to prevent abuse said the crisis unfolding, again, in the United States is a summons...
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Vashti Jackson Woodson does not hesitate when asked how she feels about her 100 years of life.
"I'm happy about everything!" she said. "My life has always been happy from the beginning up until the present. I've...
U.S. Catholic church leaders have been calling for an internal investigation into the handling of allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct against Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick and urging such an inquiry be spearheaded by laypeople.
"I think we have reached...
WASHINGTON -- A last-minute round of legal maneuvering to keep some names from appearing in a grand jury report detailing a months-long investigation of clergy sex abuse claims in six Pennsylvania dioceses may have kept the document from being...