After the release of a report from the United Nations’ Committee on the Rights of the Child earlier this week that roundly criticized the Vatican’s response to clerical sex abuse worldwide, the Vatican’s spokesman today […]
Today the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issued a scathing report on the Vatican’s response to the sexual abuse of children by priests worldwide. The report criticizes the Holy See for […]
Over at First Things, Bishop James D. Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska has some reflections on the recent Rolling Stone cover story about Pope Francis (the article that was dubbed superficial and crude by the Vatican […]
The head of the Vatican Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, has responded to an article about Pope Francis appearing in Rolling Stone magazine, calling it superficial and crude. Via Vatican Radio: “[The article] is […]
Today Pope Francis received a delegation from the University of Notre Dame, the members of which were present for the inauguration of the university’s new center in Rome. In a brief address, Pope Francis praised […]
As unrest continues and the dead are mourned in Kiev, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop has called for solidarity with anti-government protesters, whose cause, he says, is broader than short-term political gains. From Vatican Radio: […]
After a month of protests from students, parents, and alumni over the firing of an administrator who married his male partner last summer, the president of a Seattle-area Catholic high school has resigned. Sister Mary […]
As thousands gather in below-freezing temps at our nation’s capital for the annual March for Life, please watch this moving video produced by Texas Alliance for Life, recognizing the advances and setbacks experienced by the […]
Yesterday Reuters reported on an interview given to a German newspaper by Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras in which the influential cardinal criticized the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the […]
At The Public Discourse, Alana S. Newman has a fascinating look inside a recent convention held by the American Association for Adoption and Reproductive Technologies Attorneys (AAARTA). The other attendees of the conference were, by […]
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