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The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a 17-page document offering a step-by-step guide for how bishops, religious superiors and canon lawyers are supposed to handle accusations of alleged abuse by clerics against minors.
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Cassie Everts remembers the day in 2011 when she mourned in silence after experiencing her third miscarriage.
An Italian Jesuit missionary, Padre Kino, introduced Christianity to Arizona when he established the San Jose de Tumacacori Mission in January 1691.
When the difficulties and uncertainties of the coronavirus pandemic were at their height in Italy this past spring, one Vatican cardinal defined the snowballing crisis as a form of "trauma." When asked by the reporter what was needed to confront this challenge, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture and a renowned biblical scholar, said he was finding some important insight in a book by a highly respected U.S. scholar, David M. Carr, titled "Holy Resilience: The Bible's Traumatic Origins."
NEW YORK — Despite a tragically brief and illness-plagued career, Catholic author Flannery O'Connor, who died in 1964 aged just 39, is recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, excelling especially in her short stories.
Four parishioners from Arlington Diocese parishes, including Father Ed Guilloux, parochial vicar of All Saints Catholic Church in Manassas, are riding their bikes 600 miles in six days, July 11-18, with Biking for Babies. The 11-year-old nonprofit’s mission is “to renew the culture of life, one pedal stroke and one pregnancy resource center at time.”
The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments, effective July 12, 2020:
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a 2 a.m. decision July 14 after numerous last-minute filings, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to overturn a trial court order blocking the execution of federal death-row inmate Daniel Lewis Lee.
VENTURA, Calif. — When Father Tom Elewaut saw the name on his phone's caller ID the night of June 30, the pastor of Mission San Buenaventura guessed the call had something to do with the recent controversy over whether to remove the statue of St. Junipero Serra in front of Ventura's City Hall.
When the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris went up in flames in April 2019, images were made even more dramatic by thick smoke tinged with yellow as the 460 tons of lead on the roof and spire melted.
