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Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan, apostolic nuncio to the United States from 1990 to 1998, is pictured in his apartment at the Vatican Oct. 29, 2018. Cardinal Cacciavillan said he received a phone call from a woman in 1994 expressing concern about rumors about Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick's behavior with seminarians. He said he asked Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York to investigate but did not report the rumors to other Vatican officials. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)

Former nuncio to U.S. heard rumors of McCarrick misconduct in 1994

Robert Duncan
October 29, 2018
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A former nuncio to the United States acknowledged hearing rumors about the sexual misconduct of Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick already in 1994.

Pope Francis greets synod observers during the closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 28. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope apologizes to young people who have felt ignored by the church

Carol Glatz
October 29, 2018
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“Forgive us if often we have not listened to you; if, instead of opening our hearts, we have filled your ears. As Christ’s church, we want to listen to you with love” because young people’s lives are precious in God’s eyes and “in our eyes, too,” the pope said in his homily Oct. 28.

Cardinals and bishops attend the closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 28. (CNS photo/Claudio Peri, pool via Reuters)

Church and world need young people’s involvement, synod fathers say

Carol Glatz
October 29, 2018
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Writing to the world’s young people, members of the Synod of Bishops said they wanted to encourage them and help them fulfill their dreams, and they prayed that their own failings would not drive the young from the church.

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 50th Anniversary St. Isaac Jogues

Archbishop William E. Lori
October 28, 2018
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An anniversary year rightly celebrates past accomplishments but it must also be a point of departure for a future full of hope. And in this moment we rightly find ourselves once again engaging in pastoral planning, focusing on the mission of evangelization, and looking at the mission priorities that will continue to make St. Isaac Jogues a vibrant community of faith, worship, and service to others.

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Investiture Mass, Order of the Holy Sepulchre

Archbishop William E. Lori
October 27, 2018
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If only we are willing, with the help of Mary’s prayers, to engage in the struggle against temptation and against sin in our Church and in our world – if only we cling to Mary, then those places in our hearts and in our culture, thought of as God-forsaken, will bloom with that newness of life and love that Mary brought to our world, for through Mary, ‘the Lord has indeed done great things for us and holy is his Name!’

Attorney and seminarian deacon, Robert S. McCord, from left, former United States Ambassador to the Holy See, Mary Ann Glendon, and president-rector of St. Mary's Seminary and University, Sulpician Father Phillip J. Brown, talk following the Oct. 25 Red Mass in the college chapel. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Former U.S. ambassador to Holy See addresses locals at Red Mass

Emily Rosenthal Alster
October 26, 2018
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For Mary Ann Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University and former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, receiving an award named for St. Thomas More was more than solely an honor.

Women religious pray during a Mass honoring religious jubilarians Oct. 7 at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre, N.Y. Bishops, women religious, canon lawyers and others met Sept. 25-26 outside Chicago to help diocesan leaders understand the precipitous decline in numbers of women in religious life and what that means to the church. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic)

Bishops, sisters discuss declining numbers of U.S. women religious

Dan Stockman
October 25, 2018
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The precipitous decline in the number of women in religious life and what it means to the church has people thinking about how to prepare for the future.

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