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VATICAN CITY – A Catholic movement based in France has acknowledged with “humility and repentance” that acts of sexual abuse were committed by its founder and other important members of the organization.

PHOENIX – Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted has issued new norms for the distribution of Communion in the Diocese of Phoenix that entrust to pastors the decision to make available Communion under both kinds in their parishes.

I was extremely disappointed in the article (CR, Nov. 3) on the resignation of the pastor at Our Lady of the Fields. The Catechism defines detraction as one who, without objectively valid reason, discloses another’s faults and failings to persons who did not know them. While the parish certainly had a right to know about its pastor’s conduct, was it really necessary to humiliate him by publishing it as well?

The obituary (CR, Nov. 10) for Sister Francine McDermott failed to mention that she was the principal of Shrine of the Little Flower School in Baltimore, nor does it acknowledge the love and care with which she carried out that service. As a parent of children at Little Flower during her “reign” as principal, I was always aware that she held on to what she believed was the right choice for the school and its students, even when she met with opposition.

I’m tweeting live from NCYC @reviewpalmer. Follow along tonight.

I captured some of the very early excitement of the thematic park at the National Catholic Youth Conference. Enjoy this short video

If this doesn’t get you fired up, nothing will. Father Matt Buening, pastor of St. Paul in Ellicott City, delivers this passionate homily to the 280 Archdiocese of Baltimore pilgrims […]

It’s 7:10 and we are boarding the bus here at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Essex. I’ve got my Pizza Johns adequate, but kind of overrated, pizza at my […]