In his homily for a Red Mass in New Orleans, Bishop Robert Barron emphasized the need for religion in an otherwise secular society.
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Pope Francis to name St. Irenaeus of Lyon a doctor of the church
Pope Francis said he intends to declare as a doctor of the church St. Irenaeus of Lyon, the second-century theologian known for his defense of orthodoxy amid the rise of gnostic sects.
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Court absolves former altar boy accused of abusing a younger boy in Vatican’s youth seminary
A Vatican tribunal absolved a former altar boy of charges that he molested a younger boy in the Vatican’s youth seminary, ruling Wednesday in the first clergy sexual abuse trial to be heard by the pope’s criminal court.
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‘This is a moment of shame’: Pope Francis says the church has failed to center abuse victims for too long
The Catholic Church’s inability to make victims of abuse their top concern is a cause for intense shame, Pope Francis said.
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What you need to know from Day 1 of the Vatican real estate trial
The Vatican prosecutor conceded procedural errors in his fraud and corruption investigation into the Holy See’s finances and offered to remedy them by essentially starting over, throwing the trial of 10 people into question.
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Pope Francis prays for victims of Catholic sex abuse in France
Pope Francis prayed for the tens of thousands of victims of clerical sexual abuse in France and urged the Catholic Church in the country to “undertake a path of redemption.”
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Report: 330,000 child victims of sex abuse in France’s Catholic Church
The 2,500-page document was issued as the Catholic Church in France, like in other countries, seeks to face up to shameful secrets that were long covered up.
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Most Swiss Guards comply with Vatican vaccine mandate, but three quit instead of getting shot
Three members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard have hung up their halberds rather than be vaccinated against COVID-19, and three others were temporarily suspended in early October as they were completing the vaccination cycle, the spokesman for the guards told a Swiss newspaper.
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Pope Francis calls for clemency for death row inmate Ernest Johnson
Pope Francis has joined the chorus of people calling on Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to grant clemency to a death row inmate who is set to be executed for killing three people during a 1994 convenience store robbery.
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3,000 child abusers have worked in the French Catholic Church, independent commission finds
An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France believes 3,000 child abusers—two-thirds of them priests—have worked in the church over the past 70 years.