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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito voiced frustration Tuesday over what he called persistent questions about the court's Roman Catholic majority.
Ireland's senior Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday met leading campaigners for thousands of children assaulted, terrorized or molested while in church care — but didn't address the victims' key demand for the church to admit its responsibility for overseeing decades of abuse.
Sen. Edward Kennedy was raised from birth to cherish his Catholicism, and it became both a source of comfort and conflict throughout his life.
Sacramento Catholic leaders are turning to television ads in an effort to get the region's lapsed churchgoers back in the pews.
A fan-shaped baptismal font lies beneath a prominent chandelier, the centerpiece to a new worship center where priests hope to further expand one of the nation's largest Korean Catholic congregations.
Odds are rising that in the coming years, the priest at the neighborhood parish will have roots in Mexico or Vietnam and the sister working at the local health clinic will be dressed in a habit.
Ireland's next report into the cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church might be censored or delayed because its publication could undermine prosecutors' efforts to imprison pedophile priests, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern announced Friday.
Ireland has unveiled a plan to protect children better from abuse after investigators documented decades of chronic molestation and brutality in Catholic-run facilities for kids.
The Irish government announced Wednesday that it expects Catholic religious orders responsible for decades of child abuse to report by mid-July on their cash and assets — the next step in making them pay more to thousands of victims.
Bowing to government pressure, 18 Roman Catholic religious orders that had abused thousands of Irish children pledged Thursday to allow external audits of their finances and to establish an entirely new compensation fund for victims.
The Catholic orders responsible for abusing Ireland's poorest children say they're struggling to come up with money to help their victims. Yet investigations into their net worth paint a very different picture — that of nuns and brothers with billions' worth of carefully sheltered assets worldwide.
Key steps in Ireland's struggle to confront child abuse committed by Catholic officials.
A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland's Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades — and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation.
President Hugo Chavez railed against Venezuela's Roman Catholic leaders on Tuesday for condemning a law that has weakened his political opponents.
In Africa, some Roman Catholic priests have children and nuns counsel patients to use condoms against the scourge of AIDS. Faithful consult medicine men even though the church condemns that as witchcraft.
A new translation of the Roman Catholic Mass that is to be introduced worldwide in a few years is getting an accidental trial run in South Africa, where some parishioners are complaining it's too hard to understand.
Thousands of people attended funeral services Thursday for Cardinal Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung, the retired archbishop of Hanoi and advocate for restoring ties between Vietnam and the Vatican.
Ireland's most prominent Roman Catholic leader, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, questioned Tuesday whether all of his fellow bishops adequately protect children from sexually abusive priests.
In a Sept. 6 story about a land dispute between Roman Catholics and Vietnamese government officials, The Associated Press erroneously described a gathering of Catholics in downtown Hanoi as worship of the Virgin Mary. Catholics venerate the Virgin Mary, but worship God.
At a vacant lot in downtown Hanoi, Catholics have gathered to worship the Virgin Mary — and pressure the communist authorities.
When Joe Biden underwent brain surgery for a life-threatening aneurysm in 1988, he asked doctors whether he could tuck his rosary beads under his pillow. The six-term Democratic senator from Delaware also has offered to shove his rosary down the throat of the next Republican who tells him he isn't religious.
American Catholics said in a new survey they were pleased with the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI, ahead of his first visit to the U.S. since he was elected. The study also found intense interest in faith among some young people.
A third college in the Chicago area has closed after receiving a violent threat.
Quotes from Pennsylvania Catholics who are planning to vote in the state's Democratic primary on April 22:
DUBLIN, Ireland - Less than two years ago, St. Audeon’s Catholic Church was dying. It offered one sparsely attended weekly Mass in Latin and was on the brink of closure.
Catholic school Girl suspended for shaving head A 15-YEAR-old Brisbane schoolgirl was suspended for shaving her head to raise money for vital cancer research, The Courier-Mail reports. Emily Pridham and her family told Channel Nine News her father is battling leukemia. He underwent a bone marrow transplant a few weeks ago bu …
Pro-Life Amendment Seen as Historic Victory Overshadowed by Dangers of Health Bill PassageWarnings that Democrats plan to scrap pro-life Stupak amendment language in Senate
George W. Bush makes secret visit to mourning families at Fort Hood; Laura Bush goes too"Last night former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura made a secret visit to the devastated military families at Fort Hood.
Big Night for Catholic ValuesPresident Obama, who says he is opposed to any health care bill that funds abortion, and is against nixing conscience rights, has never once registered any displeasure with current bills that do just that.
Organ TransplantationMany physicians have serious and well-considered concerns about the morality of vital human organ transplantation, and about the fact that the general public has not been properly informed about what really happens when such organs are retrieved.
I remember in my Contract Law Class, never Sign anything until you READ it AND Know what you are signing. There are many attorney's throughout our governing system, I would have hoped they did not miss the class on Contract Law and the Fundamentals for all attorneys who Represen …
Same-sex marriage law in D.C. could 'suppress' Catholic institutions, archdiocese warnsA Washington, D.C.
Catholic Pastors Directed To Distribute Anti-Health Care Reform Material At MassThis past weekend the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops instructed pastors at parishes across the country to distribute material urging Catholics to oppose the health reform bills making their way through Congress for allowing public funding of abortions.
A promise was made; now it needs to be keptArchbishop Chaput outlines the dangers of the current healthcare reform bills and urges Catholics to contact Congress and demand that current health-care proposals be changed to respect all human life-- including the unborn, the elderly and the immigrant.
Marta the Possessed: A sobering tale of exorcismAppearing orginally on Spero in 2005 is a translation of an account of an exorcism conducted in Spain by Rev. Jose Antonio Fortea, who was trained by acclaimed exorcist Rev. Gabriele Amorth.
Hallowe'en is the devil's work, Catholic church warns parentsFather Joan María Canals, the director of the Spanish Bishops Conference Committee on Liturgy, condemned parents for permitting their children to go to "un-Christian" parties when they should be focusing on All Saints Day today and All Souls Day on Monday.
Got Monks? Get the Monks!President Obama's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) seems determined to go after a small Catholic college in North Carolina. Readers of First Things, the thoughtful journal founded by Rev.
"Opposite-Sex Marriage"? The politicization of language is nothing new, but this latest entry is particularly disturbing. Marriage means one thing, and attempts to make it a smorgasbord are pernicious.
National Catholic Bioethics Center backs campaign against abortion funding in health careIn the wake of the U.S. bishop's call for a massive grassroots campaign to remind Congress that health care is only truly health care if it respects every human being's right to life, the National Catholic Bioethics Center has stated its support for the campaign.
Bishops' campaign declares war on abortion funding in health careThe U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is calling on Catholics nationwide "to prevent healthcare reform from being derailed by the abortion lobby," the conference said on Friday.
U.S. bishops launch grassroots effort to fight for Catholic concerns on health careAfter attempting to persuade lawmakers to listen to Catholic concerns about health care reform, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has initiated a grassroots campaign to mobilize the faithful across the country.
Is the Catholic Leadership Trying to Silence Nuns?Over the past year, the Vatican has initiated two chilling investigations of American nuns' communities. Nuns are not singing "hallelujah."
Bishops Call for Unprecedented, Massive Catholic Opposition to Abortion in Health Care Reform'We will raise our voices to protect the unborn and the most vulnerable and to preserve our freedom of conscience'
US bishops conference mounts late drive against 'unacceptable' health-care reform"Abortion is not health care, because killing is not healing"
Holy See diplomat: Poverty, not financial sector, at heart of economic crisis"the real [economic] crisis … is not the disruption of the international economic structures based largely on weak or even fictitious bases, but the sharp worsening of poverty in a world already haunted by intolerable misery."
What the Churches and the Media Missed in the ACORN ScandalAlinsky's thought, capsulated in two books, Reveille for Radicals and Rules for Radicals, operates from the Marxist perspective of class warfare and an unabashed glorification of political pragmatism.
Where did that darn religion go? Did it fall between the couch cushions? Did I leave it hanging in the front door? Let's see...
We've Come a Long Way: John Calvin and the Condemnation of Michael ServetusThere was a time when we didn't have polite, anonymous conversations via message boards over issues of doctrine. Less than 500 years ago, a disgraced Spanish theologian named Michael Servetus paid the ultimate price for his heresy.
Democrat Rep. Calls Woman "K Street Whore" - Obama calls him "Outstanding" Member of Congress?This is the video of President Obama stating that the Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) an "outstanding" member of Congress at a fundraiser Monday night. Grayson recently called a Fed aide a "K Street whore."
Catholic Medical Association Calls for 'Reset' on Health Care Reform LegislationAs physicians, we are highly concerned by the direction health care reform legislation has continued to take. The whole thrust of the legislation voted out of congressional committees is flawed.
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