IMAGE: CNS photo/Reuters video By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The report begins dramatically, imploring its readers: "We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this." Plain...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy of the dioceses By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The following are excerpts of statements, and links to the full statements, made by the bishops of the six Pennsylvania dioceses named...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tim Shaffer, Reuters By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) - A Pennsylvania grand jury report issued Aug. 14 paints a picture of a Catholic Church in six of the state's dioceses that for...
IMAGE: CNS/Bob Roller By Julie Asher WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl said Aug. 14 that during his tenure as bishop of Pittsburgh from 1988 to 2006, he "established strong...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy of the dioceses By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops "are shamed by and sorry for the sins and omissions by Catholic priests and Catholic bishops" that have led...
Pope Francis is traveling to Ireland specifically for the World Meeting of Families, but the sex abuse crisis is dominating headlines before his Aug. 25-26 trip.
Crux interviews Barbara Jatta, Director of the Vatican Museums and, depending on how one evaluates such things, arguably the highest-ranking woman in the Vatican.
It is not enough for Catholics not to do bad things, they must counter evil by actively living out charity in the performance of good deeds, Pope Francis told young people and others in St. Peter’s...
Members of the Catholic Church sin and give scandal, it’s true, Pope Francis said, but it is up to each Catholic to live the faith as authentically as possible and witness to the world the love of...
Any member of the clergy accused of the sexual abuse of a minor is tried according to procedures outlined in the Code of Canon Law and specific norms spelled out in 'Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela...
By Ed Condon/CNA | WASHINGTON — Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, and the former Bishop of Pittsburgh, has been named more than 200 times in a Pennsylvania grand jury...
By Derya Little | I hate authority. I am not using the word “hate” flippantly here like a child who does not want to eat his broccoli. The thought of having to follow orders fills my being with dread...
By Joseph Pearce | I first stumbled across C.S. Lewis whilst fumbling around in a fog of ignorance. As an angry young man, filled to the brim with bitterness, I was groping for fragments of light...
By Fr. Dwight Longenecker | You probably know that most liberal New Testament scholars don’t have time for miracles. All those miracles stories and supernatural events? They’re all pious fiction...
By Christine Rousselle/CNA | PITTSBURGH — Following the Aug. 14 release of a Pennsylvania grand jury report on sexual abuse allegations in six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania, the Dioceses...