Posted on 4/16/2013 10:15 AM By Jay
April 22, 2013
Sudan’s security force expelled the secretary-general of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference and two other religious brothers.
Posted on 4/16/2013 10:12 AM By Jay
April 22, 2013
Catholics need to know that marrying someone from a different Christian community or, even more so, from a different religion will create extra challenges in their marriage, a Vatican official said.
Posted on 4/16/2013 10:09 AM By Jay
April 22, 2013
Russia’s Catholic Church expressed surprise and concern after a wave of raids on its parishes and charities, part of a government clampdown on organizations with foreign links.
Posted on 4/16/2013 10:07 AM By Jay
April 22, 2013
Members of the local organizing committee for World Youth Day say that, with the recent election of an Argentine pope, they expect up to 2.5 million young people at the international event in Rio de Janeiro.
Posted on 4/16/2013 10:05 AM By Jay
April 22, 2013
North Korean defectors living in Seoul pray for peace and reunification of the divided Korean Peninsula, during a church service in Seoul April 7.
Posted on 4/9/2013 12:18 PM By Jay
April 15, 2013
Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu was named the 2013 Templeton Prize winner for his work in advancing the ideals of love and understanding in his native South Africa and around the world.
Posted on 4/9/2013 12:17 PM By Jay
April 15, 2013
The Berlin Archdiocese is continuing to try to sell unused churches and even listed a church on eBay.
Posted on 4/9/2013 12:15 PM By Jay
April 15, 2013
Pope Francis has named Argentine Bishop Mario Aurelio Poli as his replacement in Buenos Aires.
Posted on 4/9/2013 12:14 PM By Jay
April 15, 2013
Traditional marriage between one man and one woman is really about the good of children and families, and the “good of families” is about “the good of society,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage.
Posted on 4/9/2013 12:12 PM By Jay
April 15, 2013
Pope Francis has decided not to move into the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace, but to live in a suite in the Vatican guesthouse where he has been since the beginning of the conclave that elected him, said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman.
Posted on 4/9/2013 12:10 PM By Jay
April 15, 2013
Gossiping about someone is a “dark joy” that Christians must resist because it is a betrayal like Judas’ betrayal of Jesus, Pope Francis said.
Posted on 4/9/2013 12:06 PM By Jay
April 15, 2013
The election of Pope Francis, the first member of the Society of Jesus to rise to the papacy, “has been one long infomercial” for the order, said Jesuit Father Brian Paulson, rector of the Jesuit community at Loyola University Chicago.
Posted on 4/9/2013 12:04 PM By Jay
April 15, 2013
An April 5 decision by a New York federal judge to lift age limits on purchases of over-the-counter emergency contraceptives should be “appealed and overturned,” says an official of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops.
Posted on 4/9/2013 12:02 PM By Jay
April 15, 2013
In his first appointment to the curia, Pope Francis named the superior of the Franciscans as secretary of the Vatican office that oversees the world’s religious orders.
Posted on 4/9/2013 12:01 PM By Jay
April 15, 2013
Pilgrims walk across a tidal causeway while carrying crosses during the final leg of the Northern Cross pilgrimage to Holy Island in northern England, March 29.
Posted on 4/9/2013 11:51 AM By Jay
April 15, 2013
Workers clear the ground of snow as they prepare to erect a statue of Blessed John Paul II.
Posted on 3/26/2013 9:02 AM By Jay
April 1, 2013
Pope Francis’ style of breaking away from his security detail and diving toward the crowds means his protectors are doing quick rewrites of strategy, sometimes on the spot.
Posted on 3/26/2013 9:01 AM By Jay
April 1, 2013
Drawing on the words of Pope Francis and his call for people to be protectors of each other, Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby urged people of faith to build up the community of God on earth.
Posted on 3/26/2013 8:59 AM By Jay
April 1, 2013
Moral relativism “endangers the coexistence of peoples,” Pope Francis told diplomats March 22.
Posted on 3/26/2013 8:57 AM By Jay
April 1, 2013
Pope Francis will celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper in a Rome juvenile detention facility and wash the feet of some of the young detainees.