Posted on 3/5/2013 10:52 AM By Jay
March 11, 2013
Asking forgiveness for their “weaknesses and limitations,” especially for their difficulty accepting his decision to resign, a group of Chinese Catholics thanked Pope Benedict XVI for eight years of loving attention.
Posted on 3/5/2013 10:51 AM By Jay
March 11, 2013
The Chicago Archdiocese has laid off 60 pastoral centre employees and must consolidate some of its agencies because of a deficit in the budget of its administrative operations, according to Cardinal Francis George.
Posted on 3/5/2013 10:49 AM By Jay
March 11, 2013
Like the first disciples who walked with Jesus as his friends, today’s Catholics are called to proclaim his good news to an indifferent and sometimes even hostile world that now more than ever needs that message of Christ’s truth and love, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington writes in a new book.
Posted on 3/5/2013 10:48 AM By Jay
March 11, 2013
Cardinal Roger Mahony expressed “amazement” at calls that he withdraw from the upcoming papal conclave because of his record on clergy sex abuse.
Posted on 3/5/2013 10:46 AM By Jay
March 11, 2013
Less than a week after his retirement was announced, a Scottish cardinal has admitted to past acts of sexual misconduct.
Posted on 3/5/2013 10:42 AM By Jay
March 11, 2013
The Vatican announced it was establishing diplomatic relations with South Sudan, but a Church official in Juba said the move was unlikely to happen soon.
Posted on 3/5/2013 10:41 AM By Jay
March 11, 2013
If numbers were used to choose the next pope, he might come from Latin America.
Posted on 3/5/2013 10:39 AM By Jay
March 11, 2013
The de Young Museum in San Francisco is hosting the first exhibit outside the Vatican dedicated solely to the Catholic Church’s collection of indigenous art and artifacts.
Posted on 3/5/2013 10:37 AM By Jay
March 11, 2013
Asinati Andrew venerates the relic of St. Mary Magdalene Feb. 20 at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in River Forest, Ill., the first stop on a one-month tour in Illinois.
Posted on 2/26/2013 2:19 PM By Jay
March 4, 2013
Dr. Evelyn Billings, who with her husband, John, pioneered research that led them to develop a form of natural family planning supported by the Catholic Church, died Feb. 16 after a short illness. She was 95.
Posted on 2/26/2013 2:18 PM By Jay
March 4, 2013
The Catholic Church has long accepted the possibility of preventing ovulation in a woman who has been raped, but withdraws that option if there is a possibility that ovulation may have already occurred, said the president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life.
Posted on 2/26/2013 2:17 PM By Jay
March 4, 2013
When Pope Benedict XVI, 85, announced his resignation, he said that “both strength of mind and body are necessary” to carry out the papal ministry in the modern world.
Posted on 2/26/2013 2:16 PM By Jay
March 4, 2013
A Feb. 20 deposition was a “long-awaited opportunity” for New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan to discuss decisions he made on clergy sex abuse cases as Milwaukee’s archbishop, his spokesman said.
Posted on 2/26/2013 2:15 PM By Jay
March 4, 2013
Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien, 74, announced he would not participate in the conclave to elect Pope Benedict’s successor because he did not want media attention focused on him instead of the election of a new pope.
Posted on 2/26/2013 2:13 PM By Jay
March 4, 2013
Religious brothers say they are an invisible group in the Church, but that it’s not such a bad thing because it allows them the freedom to be ordinary men performing an extraordinary ministry.
Posted on 2/26/2013 2:12 PM By Jay
March 4, 2013
Indonesian Cardinal Julius Darmaatmadja, the 78-year-old retired archbishop of Jakarta, said Feb. 21 that his health and particularly the “progressive deterioration” of his eyesight led to his decision not to travel to Rome for the conclave to elect a new pope.
Posted on 2/26/2013 2:10 PM By Jay
March 4, 2013
A man holds images of cats before Pope Benedict recites his final Angelus as pope from his apartment window overlooking St. Peter’s Square Feb. 24.
Posted on 2/26/2013 2:09 PM By Jay
March 4, 2013
Pope Benedict prays in a private chapel during the closing day of a spiritual retreat at the Vatican.
Posted on 2/19/2013 1:58 PM By Jay
February 25, 2013
For a program that the White House has never officially acknowledged, the use of missile-laden drones to strike suspected Muslim militants hardly remains a secret.
Posted on 2/19/2013 1:57 PM By Jay
February 25, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of pre-Lenten Carnival-goers diverted their attention from the festivities to pay attention to the news of Pope Benedict’s resignation.