Roman Catholic Church News

The College of Consultors for the Diocese of Cheyenne has elected Father Michael Carr to serve as diocesan administrator until Pope Benedict XVI appoints a new bishop for the diocese.

By Andrew Heavens and Skye Wheeler

KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - In a dusty church in Khartoum's Jeberona camp for displaced persons, the congregation claps and sings beneath a portrait of a smiling woman who has become a focus of hope for a divided country.

Josephine Bakhita, a former slave who died in 1947, has risen from obscurity to become the first saint from Darfur in western Sudan, a region convulsed by war for the past five years.

"I would say she was a gift from God ... an offer from God," said Bishop Daniel Adwok, the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Khartoum. "She has come on time for the conflict here in Sudan."

A year after a record-breaking clergy abuse settlement, a Superior Court judge on Friday urged attorneys for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and alleged molestation victims to resolve a legal ...

JUST seven weeks ago Pope Benedict XVI apologised for the "evil" of clergy sex abuse in Australia during his World Youth Day visit, but the legacy of predatory priests still preys on St Stanislaus' College in ...

The motto of Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin comes from a Bible verse reminding believers that God has given them "no cowardly spirit." And he has not been timid during three years as the most prominent ...

The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco is inviting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a private talk, saying she misstated the church's teaching on abortion.

Sep 5, 2008 6:33 am US/Pacific Alleged victims have reacted angrily to news that the departure of a key figure in a record 660 million dollar clergy abuse settlement with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los ...

Arizona's two Catholic bishops are urging church members to vote to constitutionally ban gays from marrying in this state.

CHICAGO, SEPT. 3, 2008 .- The advocacy group Fidelis is calling for a public thank you to be made to Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput for his unwavering defense of Catholic teaching on the dignity of all human ...

Applauding Popes highlighting of immigration issues, Hindus have urged the host countries to improve national policies to protect immigrants human rights and the countries of origin to work on eradication of ...

The departure of a key figure in a record $660 million clergy sexual abuse settlement has endangered part of the deal that some plaintiffs consider more important than the money: the promise by the Roman ...

Peter Tatchell, noted U.K. GLBT equality advocate, ignited a firestorm when he suggeted that a venerated Catholic Cardinal was "gay by orientation." The assertion by a British GLBT equality activist that a ...

Despite opposition from the Roman Catholic Church, the Philippine Department of Health will support the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in addition to encouraging education on the topic and ...

A CATHOLIC brother charged over 28 alleged sexual offences when he taught at St Stanislaus' College in Bathurst during the 1970s and 1980s returned to his former school earlier this year as a World Youth Day ...

A Montgomery County grand jury indicted a Catholic priest on charges he sexually abused three local children.

Authorities say an upstate New York Roman Catholic priest sexually abused three young children over a three-year period.

Catholic churches in Washington are collecting donations to fight Initiative 1000, the assisted suicide measure on the November ballot.

Orissa Home Secretary T K Mishra said on Tuesday that contrary to charges, the state government had received no complaint of Christians being forcibly converted to Hinduism in the riot-hit Kandhamal district.

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2008. There are 119 days left in the year.

A former Roman Catholic priest already facing dozens of charges related to allegations of sexual abuse at an exclusive Australian boarding school has been charged with an additional 60 child sex offenses, ...