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The church has opened an inquiry into a "distressing" allegation of an historical offense against New Zealand's Cardinal John Dew, retired archbishop of Wellington, after a police investigation closed without any charges filed.
Cardinal Dew, 75, has strenuously denied the allegation and will
Jesuit Father Frank R. Haig, a beloved professor of physics at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore and a former president of two Jesuit universities, died Feb. 28. He was 95 and had been living in the Manresa Jesuit Community in Philadelphia.
Father Haig,
By donating to the annual Catholic Relief Services collection of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholics "have the opportunity to walk with Jesus on his mission of mercy," said the chairman of the USCCB's Committee on National Collections.
The CRS collection will
"We join with so many from throughout Canada who are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. As with all those who are called to the vocation of political life, we give thanks to the Lord
On Lowell Boulevard in northwest Denver, a beautiful Victorian home sits just across the street from the campus of Jesuit-run Regis University.
Inside that house, more than a century ago, a tiny and frail former slave swept the floors, made the beds and
Nearly 3,500 of the faithful came from as far as Maine and Maryland and waited over two hours to view 200 relics of Jesus, the Holy Family, and various saints, martyrs and blesseds exhibited at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Oratory in
Catholics in the Diocese of Lincoln with same-sex desires or gender discordance have a program they can turn to for help in living a chaste life within the Catholic Church: Eden Invitation.
And a Lincoln pastor -- Father Nathan Hall -- is one
One year since the death of Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell, the shock over his murder has largely worn off, the tributes have died down and the billboards that briefly lit up Los Angeles freeways flashing his smiling face are gone.
While a
After two men married Feb. 24 in a civil ceremony inside a Catholic chapel at a private estate near Madrid, the Archdiocese of Madrid reprimanded organizers of the service.
As the wave of violence torments gang-decimated Haiti, six male religious, a lay teacher and a priest were kidnapped in two separate incidents Feb. 23 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital.
The six members of the Congregation of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart were