Catholic World News
Headlines for February 01, 2013
Released Friday, Feb. 1
Immediately complying with a judge’s order, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has released the personnel files of 87 clergy accused of sexual abuse and has posted the files online. Archbishop José...
The Obama administration has announced a new policy that would allow religious employers to provide employees with health-care plans that do not include coverage for contraceptives. The...
Archbishop Louis Sako, who has headed the Chaldean Catholic archdiocese of Kirkuk, Iraq, since 2003, has been elected the new Patriarch of Babylon and worldwide leader of the Chaldean Catholic...
Christian faith and an impulse to charity are “intimately linked” and can never be in conflict, Pope Benedict XVI writes in his Lenten Message for 2013. In his message-entitled "Believing in...
Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in May 1983, now claims the assassination attempt was ordered by the late Iranian Islamic leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Agca—who has...
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York touted the academic successes of Catholic schools and challenged Catholic educators “to be bold in our thinking and daring in...
Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans joined with civil and athletic officials in a public-service announcement designed to raise awareness about human trafficking. The announcement came on...
The Vatican Library, in collaboration with the University of Heidelberg and with financial assistance from the London-based Polonsky Foundation, has posted 256 documents online. Msgr. Cesare...
