Dispatches

In a new and important initiative aimed at protecting minors from sexual abuse in the Catholic Church eliminating all such abuse and assisting the victims of past abuse Pope Francis has sent a letter to the Presidents of the Bishops Conferences and the Superiors of the Institutes of Consecrated Li

Archbishop Oscar Romero ldquo is a martyr of the Church of the Second Vatican Council In killing him they wanted to hit the Church that flowed from the Second Vatican Council rdquo Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia the postulator of his cause for beatification told a press briefing in the Vatican on

El Salvadoran archbishop ‘was killed in hatred of the faith’ on March 24, 1980

In a brief statement today Pope Francis set Archbishop Oscar Romero on a course to canonization by confirming his death as a martydomAccording to the Vatican release quot Promulgation of Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints quot Today the Holy Father Francis received in privat

Benedict Daswa, a layman, was killed for his opposition to the use of traditional medicines.

A few hours before the Super Bowl I happened upon some tweets from the Ignatian Solidarity Network opining over the kinds of advertisements they wish we rsquo d see during the game ndash ads about how climate change is real or the need for comprehensive immigration reform They even did some moc

Notorious apartheid-era death squad commander given parole after 20 years behind bars.

Pope Francis has decided that the public ceremony of investiture of the Pallium on Metropolitan Archbishops will henceforth take place in the prelates rsquo home dioceses and not in the Vatican as has been the case under recent pontiffs He believes that in this way the ceremony quot will greatly f

Local pastor sees “a very diverse community working together, acting together.”