VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has denied that the delay in publishing the apostolic constitution on Anglicans seeking admission to the Catholic Church has been caused by an internal Vatican debate over admitting married priests.Read More
COLOGNE, Germany – A German cardinal said various commemorations of the collapse of the Berlin Wall ignore contributions by the Catholic Church.Read More
MIAMI – Miami Archbishop John C. Favalora has barred the Legionaries of Christ from exercising any ministry in the archdiocese, effective immediately.Read More
NEW ORLEANS – The scourge of addiction to pornography, especially among men, has created “a sexual Katrina” that is destroying families, church and society, a prominent speaker on sexual integrity told a recent gathering of men in New Orleans.Read More
DETROIT – Clad in a black miner’s jacket and sky blue hard hat, Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron descended 1,200 feet and 400 million years into the salt of the earth.Read More
I'm not sure how Tony Magliano (CR, Oct. 29) knows that “... many Catholics concern themselves only with one life issue while largely ignoring the rest. They claim their cause trumps all the rest.”Read More
Parish and school leaders were told Oct. 27 and 28 by Monsignor Robert L. Hartnett that the Archdiocese of Baltimore would be announcing school consolidations in March 2010.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Communications technology keeps changing, but the need to deliver a message with truth and charity is never obsolete, said Italian Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli.Read More
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Catholic education administrators in Pakistan’s Punjab province say their schools face huge additional security costs as the security situation in the country deteriorates.Read More
WASHINGTON – “Families are struggling. Faith is calling” is the theme for this year’s national collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, which will be taken up in most U.S. Catholic churches the weekend of Nov. 21-22.Read More
WASHINGTON – A proposed revision to the directives that guide Catholic heath care facilities would clarify that patients with chronic conditions who are not imminently dying should receive food and water by “medically assisted” means if they cannot take them normally.Read More