WASHINGTON - Father John Corapi said he will not follow the order of his religious superior to leave his home in Montana to live in community with his fellow priests.Read More
CARROLL, Iowa – A funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 14 at Holy Spirit Church in Carroll for Oblate Father Darrell Rupiper, a prominent peace activist who in recent years began a ministry preaching about the environment and the integrity of creation.Read More
SYDNEY, Australia – While in Sydney for World Youth Day, Pope Benedict XVI may apologize to victims of clerical sexual abuse, according to Sydney’s largest circulation newspapers.Read More
The following is printed with the permission of Karen Terry, Professor and Associate Provost of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and principal investigator and co-author of the Causes and Context report on clergy sexual abuse, at the request of Archbishop O’Brien, whose column will appear occasionally during the summer months.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Denying or minimizing the Holocaust “is intolerable and altogether unacceptable,” Pope Benedict XVI told a group of U.S. Jewish leaders.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican announced what it called the “sensational discovery” of an early image of St. Paul on the frescoed wall of a catacomb in Naples.Read More
The Archbishop’s Annual Appeal (CR, Feb. 5) got me to thinking that the church should consider creating new models of giving to match the times in which we live.Read More
OTTAWA, Ontario – A new pastoral letter from Canada’s Catholic bishops is aimed at helping school boards, teachers, parents and students in their ministry to young people with same-sex attraction.Read More
DENVER – Actor Liam Neeson, whose latest film “Taken” was the top box-office draw in the United States the first weekend of its release Jan. 30-Feb. 1, has narrated a version of the Way of the Cross written by St. Alphonsus Liguori.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said his April 15-20 visit to the United Nations and the United States was an opportunity to give – and to receive – a witness to the power of hope and faith.Read More