By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During an address to a high-level UN meeting on youth last week, Archbishop Francis Chullikatt reminded the international body that parents have a right to teach sexuality to their children and that their policies should respect those rights.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Thousands of youth who descend upon Madrid for World Youth Day later this month will have a new iPhone app, named after Blessed John Paul II, to help them keep up with events and fuel their devotions.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Archbishop Pietro Sambi, 73, passed away Wednesday evening at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from complications following lung surgery.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Archeologists in Turkey believe they have unearthed the tomb of St. Philip the Apostle who is thought to have died in that country in 80 A.D.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Shortly after receiving a threatening note that was signed, "Your friend, Satan," a priest from Tuscany, Italy was beaten in the parish rectory and required hospitalization.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI mourned the senseless attacks on a government building and youth camp in Norway on Friday that left 93 people dead.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI's eldest brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, has written a book about his famous brother which will debut on September 12, the eve of the Pope's visit to Germany.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The FBI is assisting in the investigation nearly three dozen cases of vandalism involving statues at Roman Catholic churches in New Jersey that local police are calling hate crimes.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI's appointment of Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput to head the embattled Archdiocese of Philadelphia is being seen as a clear sign of what kind of prelates the Pope trusts to lead the Church in America.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New mandatory reporting laws in Ireland will not exempt priests from having to report evidence of child abuse obtained in the confessional, a situation that the Catholic Church is promising to challenge.
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