Catholicism
Expanding clergy sexual abuse probe targets New Orleans Catholic church leaders
By Jim Mustian — May 2, 2024
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The warrant contained several new details about the sex-trafficking investigation, including claims that some victims were sexually assaulted in a seminary swimming pool after being ordered to “skinny dip."
Renewed hopes for ecumenical date for Easter could spell end to longest-running culture war
By Katherine Kelaidis — May 2, 2024
Catholic leaders, urging cease-fire, call on Biden to halt weapons shipments to Israel
By Jack Jenkins — May 2, 2024
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‘A step back in time’: America’s Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
By Tim Sullivan — May 1, 2024
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Generations of Catholics who embraced the modernizing tide sparked in the 1960s by Vatican II are increasingly giving way to religious conservatives who believe the church has been twisted by change,
75 Christian leaders urge president, Congress, churches to act on racism, poverty
By Adelle M. Banks — May 1, 2024
(RNS) — ‘Issues related to racism are now being fiercely debated across the country, and many people of color are fearful that racism is getting worse,’ reads their statement.
Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle
By Robert P. Jones — April 30, 2024
(RNS) — The overlooked religious middle is poised to play an outsized role in the 2024 presidential contest.
Abducted retired Catholic bishop who mediated between cartels in Mexico is located, hospitalized
By Mark Stevenson — April 30, 2024
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The church leadership in Mexico said in a statement earlier that Msgr. Salvador Rangel, a bishop emeritus, disappeared on Saturday and called on his captors to release him.
Despair in the Holy Land
By Thomas Reese — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — We have to persevere for peace and have hope because the alternative is too terrible to imagine.
Can secular health care institutions be trusted to make a moral brain death policy?
By Charles C. Camosy — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — A lack of consensus on the definition of ‘brain death’ has led to a default policy that declares living people dead.
The Catholic Church wants to have a say on the future of AI
By Claire Giangravé — April 29, 2024
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A handful of Catholic priests are meeting with AI programmers and execs in Silicon Valley to address the ethical consequences of artificial intelligence.
Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale’s must-see prison show
By Paolo Santalucia and Nicole Winfield — April 29, 2024
VENICE, Italy (AP) —Francis traveled to the lagoon city to visit the Holy See’s pavilion at the Biennale contemporary art show and meet with the people who created it.
Providence Catholic health care system to pay more than $200 million for unpaid wages
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — April 26, 2024
(RNS) — A jury awarded Providence hourly employees in Washington about $98 million in damages, but King County Superior Court Judge Averil Rothrock found that the violations were willful, doubling the total.
In ‘Infinite Dignity,’ the Vatican defends people, not politics
By Phyllis Zagano — April 26, 2024
(RNS) — Tackling matters that are the topic of political debates today, the document drew more controversy than intended.
Spain approves plan to compensate victims of Catholic Church sex abuse. Church will be asked to pay
By Associated Press — April 24, 2024
MADRID (AP) — The project will include free legal assistance for all victims of sexual abuse and it will reinforce the prevention supervision in schools.
Why you might have heard Paul Simon’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ at Spanish Mass
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — April 23, 2024
(RNS) — ‘The Sound of Silence’ version of the ‘Our Father’ has been widespread throughout Latin America and U.S. Latino communities for the last few decades.
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