NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of another long day trying to sign up new clients accusing the Roman Catholic Church of sexual abuse, lawyer Adam Slater gazes out the window of his high-rise Manhattan office at one of the great symbols of the church, St. Patrick’s Cathedral. “I …
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – In a highly unusual move, the Vatican has postponed the beatification of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a charismatic figure of U.S. Roman Catholicism in the 20th century and pioneer in religious media. Sheen, who died in 1979 and was sometimes called the first “televangelist,” was …
A fragment of wood believed to have formed part of Jesus’ manger has been returned to Bethlehem after more than 1,000 years in Europe. Pope Francis ordered the return of the thumb-sized relic from Rome’s Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore as a gift. The relic had been in Rome since …
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has tapped a Bank of Italy executive to take over the Vatican’s financial intelligence unit following a scandal that resulted in the Vatican being suspended from an international anti-money laundering network. Carmelo Barbagallo has been head of the Italian central bank’s vigilance unit since …
Pope Francis, at age 82, has spent nearly a month on the road this year. He has visited 10 countries, and on Saturday, he is scheduled to arrive in Japan, his 11th. The pope has said he doesn’t particularly enjoy traveling, but he is a committed globe-trotter at an age …
“When something difficult is attempted,” Daniel Berrigan said, “it is like trying to break a rock with an egg.” Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and social radical, who died in 2016, at the age of ninety-four, spent the last third of his life doing something difficult: trying, through protest, civil disobedience, …
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Pope Francis warned on Friday that technology and globalization were homogenizing young people around the world to the point where their uniqueness and cultural individuality were becoming endangered species. Pope Francis attends a meeting with cardinals and bishops at the Blessed Nicholas Boonkerd Kitbamrung Shrine in Bankgok, …
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has agendas both pastoral and personal for his trip to Asia, where he’ll appeal for global nuclear disarmament at the sites of the atomic bomb and minister to two tiny Catholic communities that have suffered gruesome periods of persecution. Emphasizing the dignity of life …
Italian TV show to reveal alleged abuse at Vatican’s youth seminary in 1980s and 90s Three more former altar boys have claimed they were sexually abused by two priests in the Vatican, as the child abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic church zeroed in for a second time on …
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Friday politicians who rage against homosexuals, gypsies and Jews remind him of Hitler. “It is not coincidental that at times there is a resurgence of symbols typical of Nazism,” Francis said in an address to participants of an international conference on criminal …
ROME (Reuters) – A Vatican cardinal said on Friday he was “disgusted” by the anti-Semitic abuse of an 89-year-old Italian senator and Holocaust survivor who was given police protection after receiving death threats. FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis greets Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, …
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday called for an end to the plundering of the Amazon basin, as he closed an assembly of Roman Catholic bishops who discussed the challenges the Church faces in the region. Pope Francis leads a Mass to close a three-week synod of Amazonian …
