Kate Corzine recently became pregnant with her fourth child. Daughter Grayson, Corzine’s eldest, was about to enter first grade after attending a private school last year. Corzine and her husband decided to educate her children through home schooling.Read More
Note: This article has been updated throughout. The bishop of Amarillo, Texas, has suspended Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, from public ministry outside the Diocese of Amarillo, effective Sept. 13, and is calling him back to the diocese to spend time in prayer and reflection.Read More
WARSAW, Poland – A Catholic journal has criticized the Polish church’s handling of sexual abuse by priests, following repeated claims that local church leaders failed to confront the problem.Read More
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services is reporting an increase in the number of seminarians who want to become military chaplains.Read More
WASHINGTON – As the median U.S. household income declined, more Americans dropped below the poverty line, with Hispanics and children taking a particularly hard hit, according to statistics released Sept. 13 by the U.S. Census Bureau.Read More
HAGERSTOWN – A 13-year-old girl with pink hair, black fingernails, a shiny silver belt and a hip-hop cap sat two pews in front of an elderly woman with a black veil over her head during a special Tridentine Mass celebrated Sept. 11 at St. Mary in Hagerstown.Read More
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Several victims of clerical sexual abuse, a U.S.-based organization for survivors and a U.S.-based human rights organization formally asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials on charges they bear a responsibility for the abuse of children by Catholic priests around the world.Read More
The Office of African American Catholic Ministries of the Archdiocese of Baltimore released the names of the recipients of the first Daniel Rudd Scholarship. The Daniel Rudd Scholarship Fund is administered by the office and board of African American Catholic Ministries. The scholarship named after the founder of the National Black Catholic Congress is open...Read More