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Possible merger between Steubenville and Columbus dioceses to be discussed among bishops
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville has expressed interest in possibly merging...
A Belgian bishop says the Vatican has for years snubbed pleas to defrock a pedophile ex-colleague
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA prominent Belgian bishop on Wednesday criticized the Vatican for failing to defrock a former...
How a retired L.A. television executive became publisher of the National Catholic Reporter
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFormer television executive Joe Ferullo is the new publisher of the progressive Catholic newspaper...
Pope Benedict Was a Law and Order Pontiff, Who Failed As a Reformer
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesWith 1.3 billion followers, the Roman...
The Vatican half-embraces transgender Catholic godparents, wedding witnesses
The Week via Yahoo News· 7 months agoPope Francis. The Vatican said Nov. 8 that transgender Catholics can be baptized and serve as...
What the Catholic Church is learning from Pope Francis' big bet on 'synodality'
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPope Francis. Illustrated | Getty Images In Oct. 2021, Pope Francis launched an ambitious, audacious...
Bolivia's Catholic Church says it was 'deaf' to sexual abuse victims
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRoman Catholic Church leaders in Bolivia said on Wednesday the institution had been "deaf" to sexual...
Transgender people can be baptised as long as there is no ‘risk of scandal’, Vatican says
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 months agoTransgender people can be baptised in the Catholic Church as long as there is no risk of causing...
Benedict's brief papacy was marred by the priest sex abuse scandal
NBC Universal via AOL· 1 year agoThe priest sex-abuse scandal was the albatross around the neck of Pope Emeritus Benedict’s brief...
Bishop Emeritus Matthew Clark dies at 85
Democrat and Chronicle via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBishop Emeritus Matthew Harvey Clark, the affable, liberal-minded upstate New Yorker who led Rochester’s Roman Catholic diocese for 33 years, died Sunday...