There has been a huge overall surge in allegations over the past three years as dioceses faced unprecedented pressure to address the decades-old problem of clergy sex abuse.
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San Francisco archbishop leads prayer, blesses site of toppled Junipero Serra statue
In 2015, some people objected to the canonization of the Spaniard, like critics did of his beatification in 1988, because of questions about how Father Serra treated the native peoples of California and about the impact of Spanish colonization on native peoples throughout the Americas.
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Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling
The court upheld a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling.
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U.S. Catholic media must inspire unity amid division, pope says
Since the establishment of the first Catholic newspapers in the United States, the pope said, local communities have relied on the ever-expanding forms of media “to share, to communicate, to inform and to unite.”
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Don’t ‘blackmail’ kids into coming to church, archbishop says
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, has said that catechesis is a process in leading young people to a personal relationship with Jesus.
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Asylum at the border is ‘effectively over,’ El Paso bishop says
Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas has said that the Trump Administration’s restrictive immigration measures are literally sending migrants to their death.
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Abuse allegations against late Springfield, Mass., bishop found credible
Bishop Weldon, a native of the Archdiocese of New York, was installed as the fourth bishop of the Springfield Diocese March 28, 1950, and served until his retirement in the fall of 1977.
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Supreme Court declines to block upcoming federal executions
The executions would mark the first use of the death penalty on the federal level since 2003.
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Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion clinic law
The court’s abortion ruling continues ‘cruel precedent,’ said Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities.
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San Quentin joins a growing list of U.S. prisons overwhelmed by coronavirus
George Williams, S.J., the Catholic chaplain at San Quentin, spoke with America about conditions inside the prison and what needs to be done to protect its especially at-risk inmates.