CNS photo In a scathing 11-page written statement, the Vatican’s former ambassador to the United States accuses Pope Francis of ignoring concerns about Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and lifting sanctions against the former cardinal years before ...
Official Catholic teaching now holds that the death penalty is “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” The Church also has committed itself to work “with determination” for ...
The Catholic Church in Pennsylvania conducted a decades-long “systematic” and “sophisticated” cover-up to protect alleged predator-priests, a state grand jury concluded, following a nearly two-year investigation into how local Church officials handled child sex-abuse allegations. ...
When students at Roman Catholic High School learn about American history, they may as well be taking a course on their own school’s heritage. Civil War veterans built Roman Catholic High School, which was the ...
At 69 years, John Tucker jokes that he should be enjoying retirement with his feet up on the couch and watching “Dr. Phil” on the tube. “But I don’t want to do that,” said Tucker, ...
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s upcoming retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court has risen hopes in Catholic and pro-life circles that the high court will not only be more amenable to religious freedom and conscience rights, but ...
The June 12 summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was unusual, not least of all for its bringing together the heads of two countries who have remained officially ...
Amid days of political tumult in the White House, ranging from President Donald Trump’s escalating protests against the Department of Justice’s Russian probe to the uncertain state of the planned summit with North Korean leader ...
It is one of the most important events a Catholic community celebrates in a person’s life, but one so often misunderstood and increasingly ignored. The funeral Mass. The funeral liturgy in a church setting is ...
The national rankings of the country’s top high school athletic teams possess a distinct Catholicity. Mater Dei. De La Salle. St. Anthony. St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Pius X. These aren’t the names of parish churches. ...
