VATICAN CITY – Less than a week after a coadjutor archbishop was installed to assist him, 57-year-old Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet of Hanoi resigned his post amid rumors that the Vietnamese government had told the Vatican the archbishop must go.Read More

When Shena Thomas came to teach fourth grade at Cardinal Shehan School in Northwood last fall, she noticed certain social trends.Read More

NEW ORLEANS – Inside St. Bernard Church May 2, parishioners whose lives depend on the fishing industry and who endured and overcame the battering of Hurricane Katrina five years ago had a difficult time focusing on Father John Arnone’s homily.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The death of a fetus who survived an abortion but was wrapped in a sheet and left to die should shake people’s consciences, said Italian Archbishop Santo Marciano of Rossano.Read More

BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian governmental authorities said a Catholic priest from a town outside Medellin led paramilitary groups that committed rapes and massacres and persecuted evangelical ministers and believers.Read More

WASHINGTON – Arizona’s three bishops and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony have joined those urging Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to veto legislation that the cardinal called “the country’s most retrogressive, mean-spirited and useless anti-immigrant law.”Read More

In this age of fiscal cutbacks, the hardest hit seems to be to city youth. How can any community risk a reduction of services and outreach to young people, so precious to us especially in the midst of societal challenges that manifest themselves daily? However, youth leaders in our Catholic parishes have invested themselves and...Read More

ROME - The Shroud of Turin was hidden in an Italian Benedictine abbey during World War II in part because church authorities feared Adolf Hitler might want to steal it, according to an official at the monastery.Read More