A spokesman for the Catholic Church in Egypt is claiming that the army and police "used" a mob of street fighters to carry out an attack on thousands of peaceful Christian demonstrators in Cairo this past weekend that left more than 25 dead and 200 injured.
Polish Archbishop Edward Ozorowski led the faithful in a special Mass on Sunday to celebrate a Eucharistic miracle that occurred in 2008.
Same-sex marriage has already forced the Church out of the adoption business in many U.S. states where the unions are sanctioned, but it is now threatening to force the Church out of the marriage business too, says Archbishop Barry Hickey of the Archdiocese of Perth, Australia, who says he'll stop performing marriages altogether if forced to conduct the unions.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has launched a national program aimed at encouraging the faithful to take a stand against a recent decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to require all private health plans to include coverage for contraception, sterilization, and related "patient education and counseling" services for women.
When Pope Benedict XVI steps off a plane in his native Germany tomorrow morning, he will be embarking on what many say will be a difficult four-day visit to a land where Catholic teaching is mostly opposed or at least ignored and militant groups are planning large boycotts and protests.
Even though they admit to having little hope of success, a group of victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests have filed a complaint against the pope, the Vatican's secretary of state and two other high-ranking Holy See officials with the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing them of committing crimes against humanity.
A Niagara Falls man with a long criminal record has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after admitting to extorting $90,000 from a Catholic priest after threatening to falsely accuse him of committing sexual abuse.
A decision by the rector of S.S. Simon and Jude Cathedral in the Diocese of Phoenix to restrict altar servers to boys in order to encourage vocations is drawing flak from the usual dissenting groups within the Church and the print publications that give them way too much ink.
Reflecting on a recent ruling by the bishops of England to reintroduce the discipline of abstinence from meat on Fridays, New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan thinks American Catholics should consider doing the same in order to restore some of our lost Catholic identity.
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