Bishop from China's 'underground' Roman Catholic Church gains official recognition: state media
Amid a thaw in relations between Beijing and the Holy See, a bishop from China's "underground" Roman Catholic church is slated to step up as the official state-backed clergyman for a diocese in central China, state-run media reported. China's estimated 10 million Catholics are legally ...
Prayer with the pope now just a swipe away with new Click to Pray app
Pope Francis swiped a tablet Sunday to launch a new app allowing the faithful to pray with him, and expressed his pain over the car bomb blast in Colombia and the latest Mediterranean migrant tragedy. He presented the Vatican's latest digital platform, known as the ...
Roman Catholic Church beatifies 19 Christians in Algeria, victims of civil war in 1990s
The Roman Catholic Church in Algeria has beatified 19 Christians killed in a civil war in the 1990s, including seven Trappist monks who were beheaded at their monastery by Islamist militants. The beatification in the port city of Oran is the first of its kind ...
Chilean court orders Catholic Church to pay damages over priest's decades of abuse of trio: report
Chile's Court of Appeal has ordered the office of Santiago's Archbishop to pay 450 million pesos ($650,000) to three men who alleged they were sexually abused for decades by Chilean priest Fernando Karadima, a local newspaper reported on Sunday. Citing a copy of a leaked ...
During Vatican event, Pope Francis promotes 17 prelates to cardinals, adding to potential successors
Pope Francis on Sunday promoted 17 Roman Catholic prelates from around the world to the high rank of cardinal, including 13 who are under 80 years old and thus eligible to succeed him one day. Cardinals, who wear red hats and are known as "princes ...
Philippine President-elect Duterte blasts Catholic church, bishops
The presumptive Philippine president-elect on Saturday blasted the country's dominant Roman Catholic Church as "the most hypocritical institution" and accused some of its bishops of corruption for allegedly asking favors from politicians, including him. In a late-night news conference that dragged on into early Sunday ...
Two U.S. bishops hid 40 years of sex abuse of hundreds of kids: grand jury report
Two Roman Catholic bishops who led a Pennsylvania diocese helped cover up the sexual abuse of hundreds of children by over 50 priests or religious leaders over a 40-year period, according to a grand jury report issued Tuesday. The report on the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese was ...
The murky past of Pope Francis: Is he really so humble?
I don't remember hearing the name of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in March, or any of his fellow Argentinian Jesuits when I was in Buenos Aires in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. They seemed strangely silent in such harrowing times when ...
