I want to take a moment to acknowledge the death of famed British neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks.
A Farewell to a great man
Vatican ex-envoy Wesolowski dies ahead of abuse trial
Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and Vatican envoy to the Dominican Republic, has died before he could be tried for child sex offences.
He had been taken ill just before the start of his Vatican trial in July.
He was
Archbishop Charles Chaput: The Hardliner
Pope Francis has unleashed a Vatican Spring. But Charles Chaput, leader of Philadelphia’s 1.5 million Catholics, seems to have other ideas.
All Pat Smiley wants is a chance to meet with him, to make her case, to
St. Mary’s reverses policy on gay employment after backlash over rescinded hire
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Update: This post has been updated with the latest information about reconciliation between the school and Lauren Brown.
The St. Mary’s Academy board voted Wednesday night to change the school’s policy on hiring gay employees after facing
At pallium Mass, Cupich calls for mercy toward nontraditional families
By Michael O’Loughlin
CHICAGO – Catholics must avoid being rigid, embrace change, and show mercy, not harsh judgment, toward nontraditional families.
That was the message from Chicago’s Archbishop Blase CupichSunday afternoon after receiving his pallium, a wool stole that
Catholic cardinal arrested for DUI
By JOHN BURNETT
One of the high-ranking American officials of the Roman Catholic Church was arrested for drunken driving late last week in Kailua-Kona.
The Most Eminent Cardinal William Joseph Levada, 79, of Menlo Park, Calif., was stopped at about
Resigned priest had student images on computer
A Louisville Catholic priest resigned from his church after child pornography and hundreds of images of schoolchildren from his parish were found on his computer, archdiocese officials said Friday.
Stephen A. Pohl resigned as pastor of St. Margaret Mary Parish,
Longtime leader at St. John’s Abbey accused of sex abuse
Thomas Andert, St. John Abbey’s prior, accused of abuse by a former student.
The Rev. Thomas Andert, the prior at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, has been removed from his leadership position following an allegation of
Philly archdiocese settles sexual-abuse civil suit
By Jeremy Roebuck
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has settled a civil lawsuit brought by an accuser whose testimony helped convict two Catholic priests and a former parish-school teacher on sexual abuse charges, and
Priest admits sex with minor, says teen ‘wanted’ it
By Mark Mueller
In an extraordinary admission of wrongdoing, a priest sought by authorities in New Jersey has acknowledged engaging in a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old boy, but he deflected blame for the incident by saying the teen “wanted”