By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a moving and contrite statement released yesterday, famed exorcist and former president of Human Life International, Fr. Thomas Euteneuer says his sudden departure from ministry was due to "violating the boundaries of chastity" with an adult female who was under his spiritual care.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Out of fear for their lives, at least 20-25 Christians are converting to Islam every week in Pakistan as a result of increasing persecution of religious minorities in that country.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In his message for the 45th World Day of Social Communications, Pope Benedict XVI is calling upon Catholic users of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and bloggers to adopt a "Christian style presence" online that is responsible, honest and discreet.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The priest whose real life experience is the basis for a new movie about exoricism scheduled for release this Friday, is praising the film for its positive portrayal of the Church and for its witness to the power of faith.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Rather than engage in peaceful dialogue about ways to stem the rising tide of anti-Christian violence in Egypt, that country's highest Islamic authority, al-Azhar, announced yesterday that it is freezing all dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church over what it considers to be the Pope's repeated "insults toward Islam."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In the latest of a series of crimes against Catholic churches in California, vandals spray-painted the words "Kill the Cathlics" on the walls of St. Thomas More parish in Irvine.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the long-time aide of Pope John Paul II, is in possession of a vial of blood that will become the primary relic of the late Pontiff when he is beatified on May 1.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI has approved the miracle required to beatify Pope John Paul II and, pending confirmation from the Vatican, is expected to preside over a May 1 beatification celebration.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a ruling that could have a major impact on colleges that want to uphold Catholic teaching, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled on Tuesday that Manhattan College, which is recognized as Catholic by the Archdiocese of New York City, cannot call itself Catholic because "the purpose of the College is secular and not the ‘propagation of a religious faith’."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
According to Fox News contributor, Fr. Jonathan Morris, the story about the Vatican teaming up with the
Discovery Channel to do a documentary series on exorcisms is nothing more than an "inappropriate PR stunt by
Discovery."
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