VATICAN CITY – The degradation of the environment is a pressing moral problem that threatens peace and human life itself, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

PERTH, Australia – Incorporating traditionalist Anglicans into the Catholic Church must be a “slow, cautious and prudent” path of implementing Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic constitution, said the bishop in charge of the process in Australia.Read More

There was one family from Mount Savage that was skipped over in the Your Parish profile of St. Patrick (CR, Nov. 19). That family of John and Ellen (Daley) Mattingly had 11 children, four of whom became religious, two Notre Dames, one Sister of Charity and one Redemptorist priest. They also have a nephew who...Read More

A woman drove up to St. Wenceslaus Church in a minivan Dec. 5 and told Father Peter Lyons, pastor, “I want to get these guns out of my house.”Read More

PORTLAND, Ore. – More than 500 people have filed claims of abuse against the Oregon province of the Society of Jesus, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early this year citing pending lawsuits over clergy sexual abuse claims.Read More

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s first year in office was packed with major news of interest to the world, but there was much to report about his interactions with faith leaders and on other topics of religious interest.Read More

VATICAN CITY – For years, the Vatican has suggested that a promising area of ecumenical cooperation was a joint struggle by Christian churches against the moral and social challenges posed by a predominantly secular society.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican and the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, plan an informal exchange of scientists.Read More