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AIDE MISMANAGEMENT CLAIMS MEANT TO SMEAR HONDURAS CARDINAL
The Vatican on Friday confirmed that Francis has ordered an investigation into allegations of financial irregularities in the Tegucigalpa archdiocese... READ MORE›
CARDINAL BERNARD LAW, CENTRAL FIGURE IN BOSTON SEXUAL ABUSE SCANDAL, DIES AT 86
How the boston globe exposed the abuse scandal that rocked the catholic church... READ MORE›
POPE OKS FIRST STEP TOWARD SAINTHOOD FOR 'ROSARY PRIEST'
The Vatican said Tuesday that Pope Francis had approved a decree asserting that Peyton lived a life of heroic Christian virtue... READ MORE›
'CHANGES MUST BE MADE': SHOCKING AUSTRALIAN CHILD ABUSE INQUIRY ENDS
That was the stark warning of an exhaustive five-year investigation by an Australia Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse that concluded Thursday... READ MORE›
ARCHBISHOP REJECTS CALL TO REPORT CONFESSIONS
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse had the power to look at any private, public or non-government body involved with children... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN CHILD ABUSE INQUIRY RECOMMENDS END TO MANDATORY CELIBACY FOR CLERGY
Prosecute clergy for failing to report abuse Recommendations include the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference request that the Vatican consider introducing voluntary celibacy for clergy... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS CALLS FOR POLICE TO SHOW DRIVERS 'MERCY'
At a meeting with traffic police in Italy, Pope Francis urged them to show mercy towards those who break the rules of the road... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS ADMITS HE SOMETIMES FALLS ASLEEP WHILE PRAYING
Pope Francis has admitted that he sometimes nods off while praying... READ MORE›
POPE CANONIZES FIRST NEW WORLD MARTYRS, CALLS AMAZON SYNOD FOR 2019
REUTERS Alessandro Bianchi The pope also canonized 30 martyrs who were killed for their faith in Brazil in 1645... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS TO VISIT MYANMAR AS ANTI-ROHINGYA HATRED SEETHES
Myanmar has a small, roughly half-a-million Catholic population, mainly in the remote north... READ MORE›
THE POPE IS WRITING A DOCUMENT ON FAKE NEWS - AND THAT'S THE TRUTH
Fake news and journalism for peace. In Latin, one of the nine languages the pope uses to tweet, that would be Veritas liberavit vos... READ MORE›
CARING FOR PRIEST-FATHERED KIDS, THEIR MOMS
Commission member Bill Kilgallon briefed Francis on the decision of the working group to take up the issue of priests' children during an audience last week... READ MORE›
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A VATICAN SHOT ACROSS THE BOW FOR HARD-LINE U.S. CATHOLICS
American Catholic conservatives once unacquainted with being out of papal favor have stewed privately and expressed horror publicly on numerous right-wing Catholic blogs... READ MORE›
STEVE BANNON CARRIES BATTLES TO ANOTHER INFLUENTIAL HUB
Mr. Bannon publicly articulated his worldview in remarks a few months after his meeting with Cardinal Burke, at a Vatican conference organized by Mr. Harnwell's institute... READ MORE›
GEORGE PELL TOLD TO FACE COURT ON HISTORICAL SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES
Australia's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, is charged with historical sexual assault offences... READ MORE›
TRUDEAU ASKS POPE FRANCIS TO APOLOGISE FOR SCHOOLS
In 2008, former prime minister Stephen Harper issued an apology on behalf of Canadians, calling it a sad chapter in our history ... READ MORE›
MOTHER TERESA DECLARED A SAINT BY POPE FRANCIS
After spending most of her lifetime caring for the destitute and homeless poor in Kolkata, Mother Teresa died in 1997... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINE CATHOLIC CHURCH ABUSERS RARELY PROSECUTED
Jaime Achacoso, a lawyer and expert on the Catholic Church's canon law, said priests found guilty of sexual misconduct had not been removed from ministry... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS: CORRUPT SHOULD BE TIED TO A ROCK AND THROWN INTO THE SEA
Pope francis gives fire-and-brimstone sermon, saying the corrupt should be tied to a rock and thrown into the sea... READ MORE›
KEEP THE FAITH IN OUR TRYING TIMES
The pope usually conducts an Urbu et Orbi blessing -- Latin for To the City and the World -- just after the Easter Mass... READ MORE›
CASTRO CREMATION BREAKS PATTERN OF COMMUNIST DICTATORS ON PERMANENT DISPLAY
Augusto Pinochet, Chile's army chief and Cuban leader Fidel Castro salute in 1971 during Castro's visit to Chile... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS EXTENDS PRIESTS ABILITY TO FORGIVE ABORTION
Pope Francis did not single out any country, but he has expressed dismay over the harsh tone on immigration that Mr. Trump has taken... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS SAYS BAN ON FEMALE PRIESTS IS LIKELY TO ENDURE
Francis has said before that the Catholic Church's ban on ordaining women as priests is a closed matter... READ MORE›
POPE AIDE GEORGE PELL CHARGED WITH CHILD SEX ABUSE
For years, Pell has faced allegations that he mishandled cases of clergy abuse when he was archbishop of Melbourne and, later, Sydney... READ MORE›
POPE SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE
Repeating the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church about respecting and not discriminating against gays, Pope Francis said that one could condemn certain behavior... READ MORE›
MAGNITUDE 7.0 QUAKE SHAKES CENTRAL AMERICA
In El Salvador, the eartquake could be felt in the regions of Chalatenango, San Salvador, Cabanas and San Miguel... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS: MARRIED MEN COULD BE ORDAINED TO EASE PRIEST SHORTAGES
Pope Francis has said the Catholic church may consider ordaining married men who could potentially then work in remote areas faced with a shortage of priests... READ MORE›
CATHOLIC CHURCH APOLOGISES FOR ROLE IN 'FORCED ADOPTIONS' OVER 30-YEAR PERIOD
Adoption reached a peak in 1968, when more than 16,000 babies born to unmarried mothers were handed over to new families... READ MORE›
52 SHOT DEAD IN 72 HOURS IN THE WORLD'S NEW MURDER CAPITAL
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Over three nightmarish days with the police on the streets of San Salvador, MailOnline saw them respond to 52 murders... READ MORE›
DUTERTE'S WAR ON DRUGS A 'REIGN OF TERROR', CHURCH SAYS
The Philippines' Catholic Church has blasted President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs for creating a reign of terror ... READ MORE›
THE POPE'S 'BLIND SPOT' ON SEXUAL ABUSE
Charges of sexual assault against one of the Pope's top advisers, Cardinal George Pell, highlights what one observer calls Francis' blind spot on sexual abuse... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS: CHRISTMAS 'HOSTAGE TO MATERIALISM'
During a high-security Christmas Mass at the Vatican, the head of the Roman Catholic Church also denounced the continuing suffering of children... READ MORE›
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POPE FRANCIS - FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T RETIRE
Will the catholic church ever earn women's forgiveness?... READ MORE›
CARDINAL GEORGE PELL'S LEGAL BILLS WON'T BE PAID BY SYDNEY ARCHDIOCESE, ARCHBISHOP SAYS
The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney says it will not pay its former archbishop Cardinal George Pell's legal costs... READ MORE›
CATHOLIC BISHOPS NOT OBLIGED TO REPORT CLERICAL CHILD ABUSE, VATICAN SAYS
Vatican guide says 'not necessarily' bishop's duty to report suspects to police despite Pope Francis's vows to redress Catholic church's legacy of child abuse... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS CREATES COMMISSION TO STUDY FEMALE DEACONS
Pope Francis has created a commission to study the historical role of female deacons in the Catholic Church, the Vatican's press office said Monday... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS URGING LESS JUDGMENT SIGNALS PATH FOR DIVORCED ON COMMUNION
Conservative Catholics, who have already expressed concern that Francis could destabilize the church and undermine doctrine, were far less impressed... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS SAYS CHURCH SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAYS
Pope Francis said on Sunday that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from gays for the way they had treated them... READ MORE›
WORST OF CATHOLIC SEXUAL ABUSE SCANDAL STILL TO COME IN DEVELOPING WORLD
Worst of Catholic sexual abuse scandal still to come in developing world report... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS BEGINS EGYPT TRIP TO SHOW UNITY WITH EMBATTLED CHRISTIANS
Pope John Paul II visited Egypt in February 2000... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS APPROVES SAINTHOOD FOR MOTHER TERESA
She will be made a saint on Sept. 4, 13 years after her beatification and 19 years after she died at age 87... READ MORE›
CARDINAL CORMAC MURPHY-O'CONNOR DIES AT 85
Retired leader of Roman Catholic church in England and Wales was appointed cardinal by pope in 2001... READ MORE›