VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has instituted a new agency to monitor all Vatican financial operations and make sure they meet international norms against money-laundering and the financing of terrorism.Read More

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – The only way to put an end to environmental degradation is for people to live more simply and ethically, said Pope Benedict XVI.Read More

WASHINGTON – 2010 will be known in many circles as the year of health reform. Among Catholics, it might also be known as the year that caused, as Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George said in his final talk as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a “wound to the church’s unity.”Read More

NEW YORK – A conversation between the Catholic theologian Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete and the outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens was billed as an inquiry into the question “Does science make belief in God obsolete?”Read More

As Christmas approaches, The Catholic Review highlights two stories of generosity in this season of giving.Read More

With the Archdiocese of Baltimore not likely to receive an auxiliary bishop to replace Bishop W. Francis Malooly, former western vicar and now bishop of Wilmington, the archdiocese is restructuring its vicariate system.Read More

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Knights of Columbus denied allegations made in two lawsuits filed Dec. 14 that the fraternal organization did not address claims that a former Knight abused two men decades ago when they were young and tried to conceal the allegations.Read More

A movement that had a modest start in Texas four years ago is being utilized by the Archdiocese of Baltimore to advance its Respect Life program.Read More