Dispatches

The U S bishops on April 17 released the results of their annual compliance audit intended to track the U S church rsquo s response to the abuse of children by clergy according to guidelines first established by the 2002 Dallas Charter During the 2014 audit year July 1 2013 ndash June 30 2014

The dominant rationale is that immigrant workers are “stealing” South Africans’ jobs.

35,000 have arrived by boat in southern Europe. Some 1,600 are dead or missing.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn from his post as pastor of the diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph Missouri The bishop was the first Catholic prelate to be convicted by a civil court in the United States for the criminal lsquo misdemeanor rsquo of not reporting a pr

A divided archdiocese calls for mercy and imagination, not digging in and building bunkers.

The national Catholic community is remembering Cardinal Francis George who passed away Friday as a man of nbsp intelligence scholarship and leadership skills ndash with an often acerbic wit and penchant for controversial comments But for many of Chicago rsquo s 2 3 million Catholics George

Last month I published a number of articles about the surveys being used to gather information from Catholics all over the world in preparation for next October rsquo s Synod on the Family In the last of my four pieces I tried to find out what was being done in other parts of the world In a number

Pope Francis spent 50 minutes with a delegation from the Leadership Conference of American Women Religious LCWR today after the Vatican rsquo s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith CDF and the LCWR announced in a joint report that they had reached a positive conclusion to a three-year e

Cardinal Sean O rsquo Malley put the question of the accountability on the table of this week rsquo s meeting of the pope with his ldquo Council of Nine rdquo cardinal advisors His intent is to find a juridical and competent way to deal effectively with bishops and religious superiors who abuse t