Catholic News

Abbey's youngest monk becomes abbot, university chancellor - The youngest monk at a Chicago-area Benedict abbey has been elected abbot and, by virtue of that office, chancellor of Benedictine University. A graduate of the University of Chicago ...
Cardinal Pell issues warning on same-sex adoption measure - Cardinal George Pell of Sydney has expressed "grave concerns" about pending legislation that would allow homosexual couples to adopt children in the Australian state of New South Wales. ...
Coptic patriarch: Desire to divorce leads Catholics to convert to Islam - Patriarch Antonius Naguib, the head of the Coptic Catholic Church, has provided a fascinating glimpse into the life of Christians in Egypt in an interview with Aid to the Church in Need. ...
Critic of Christianity vies to become Japanese prime minister - A critic of Christianity has announced he will run against Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan in the September 14 election for the leadership of the Democratic Party of Japan. "I think ...
Dublin's Archbishop Martin has not discussed resignations with Pope - Irish analysts continue to scrutinize Pope Benedict's decision not to accept the resignations of two Dublin auxiliary bishops. The key question being asked: whether the Pope's choice ...
Hackers steal $600,000 from diocese's bank account - Hackers, likely from overseas, have stolen over $600,000 from an Iowa diocese and transferred the funds to other accounts. "While the Diocese of Des Moines is protected by insurance ...
Irish bishop defends late priest linked to terrorist bombing - A retired bishop has come to the defense of the late Father James Chesney, who was linked in a recent report to a 1972 terrorist bombing in Northern Ireland. "Everyone takes the same ...
Irish priest, convicted on abuse charges, sentenced to 4-year term - A 76-year-old Irish priest has been sentenced to a 4-year prison term after being convicted on 11 counts of molesting children. Father Eugene Lewis, a former superior of the White Fathers, ...
Karnataka rapped for 'exonerating' police officials in church attacks - A prominent Christian advocacy group in India has criticized the government in the southern Karnataka state, which headed by the Hindu-nationalist BJP Party, for "exonerating three ...
North Korean dictator visits Catholic church in China - Kim Jong Il, whose repression of religion is unmatched by any other world leader, visited a Catholic church in China on August 26. Father Nicholas Liu Wenhui showed the North Korean ...
Notre Dame fires administrator who opposed honor for Obama - Citing "restructuring," the University of Notre Dame has fired Bill Kirk from his position as associate vice president for residence life. David Solomon, a university philosophy professor ...
Orthodox Patriarch calls for 'titanic and righteous battle' to protect the environment - The leader of the Orthodox world is calling upon Orthodox Christians to "take part in the titanic and righteous battle to alleviate the environmental crisis." Calling for "a standard of ...
Pakistan: 4 more Christian villages deliberately flooded - Four Christian and Hindu villages in the southeastern Pakistani province of Sindh have been deliberately flooded, leaving over 2,800 families homeless. "The waters came as a result of ...
Pope, Israeli president discuss peace prospects - Pope Benedict XVI met on September 2 with Israeli President Shimon Peres at the papal summer residence on Castel Gandolfo, for a 40-minute talk that centered on peace prospects in the ...
Pro-Obama Catholic group apparently folds - Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, the pro-Obama organization that presented itself as "inspired by Gospel values and the rich history of Catholic social teaching," has apparently ...
Retired Anglican primate defends 'heroic' Irish Catholic priests - Archbishop Walton Empey, who led the Church of Ireland as Anglican archbishop of Dublin from 1997 to 2002, has written a letter to the Irish Times defending the "heroic" Irish Catholic ...
Seoul conference aims to energize Catholic laity - Father Bernardo Cervellera, the director of the AsiaNews service, reports from the Congress of Asian Catholic Laity, which opened in Seoul this week. Among the themes emerging from the ...
Survey shows overwhelming opposition to legal abortion in El Salvador - A new public-opinion poll in El Salvador has found that by a lopsided margin of 93-7%, the people oppose a constitutional amendment that would allow for legalized abortion. ...
Wisconsin diocese investigates alleged Marian apparition - In 1859, Adele Brise, a 28-year-old Belgian immigrant in Wisconsin, reported that the Blessed Virgin had appeared to her and asked her to catechize children. In 1861, a chapel was built on ...
Woman weeps over her abortion at Austin abortion funding hearing - At a September 1 public hearing on the budget of Central Health, which provides public health services in the Austin area, people spoke for and against the agency's decision to spend ...