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The prefect of the Congregation for Religious has complained that his office was not notified about Vatican plans to require reforms in the American Leadership Conference of Women Religious...
Pope Francis does not distribute Communion when he celebrates Mass in public. Now Sandro Magister of L’Espresso explains this new papal policy. In 2010, then-Cardinal Bergoglio remarked that some...
Cardinal Peter Turkson, the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, told Vatican Radio that the council’s controversial 2011 document, “Towards Reforming the International...
A Brazilian Catholic bishop has excommunicated a priest who was known for his defense of extra-marital sexual activity. Bishop Caetano Ferrari of Bauru took action after the priest, Father...
Consecrated religious must maintain a spirit of deep loyalty to the Church, Pope Francis told a group of religious superiors on May 8. Speaking to the International Union of Superiors General...
Father Michael Fugee, whose continued contact with young children had provoked a storm of criticism for the Newark archdiocese, has resigned from priestly ministry. Father Fugee, who had once...
Ireland’s Catholic bishops have taken a strong stand in opposition to a bill that would legalize abortion in cases when the health of the mother was deemed at risk. The legislation, ironically...
Although he is no longer authorized to act as an official representative of the Los Angeles archdiocese, Cardinal Roger Mahony has heightened his public profile, and continues to preside regularly...
The Vatican has announced the prayer intentions of Pope Francis for May 2013. The Pope’s general intention is “that administrators of justice may act always with integrity and right...
The Vatican official who is helping oversee the revision of the chapter of the Code of Canon Law that deals with canonical penalties said in an interview that the current code was drafted during “a...
