VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Community of Loyola, a religious community of women founded in Slovenia with the assistance of Father Marko Rupnik, who has been accused of abuse, including of women in the community, has been ordered to dissolve by the
MILWAUKEE (OSV News) -- The Vatican's decision to close a religious community co-founded by accused abuser Father Marko Rupnik is prompting wary praise from survivor advocates in the U.S. and Canada, as well as calls to do more to heed and protect
Man charged in connection with alleged assault in dorm at all-female Catholic university
ST. PAUL, Minn. (OSV News) -- A 19-year-old man has been charged in connection with an alleged assault on campus at St. Catherine University, a Catholic university in St. Paul. Keanu Labatte, of Granite Falls, has been charged with three counts of
Alabama priest Father Alex Crow, who fled the country with a recent Catholic high school graduate in July, will be laicized, Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi of Mobile, Alabama, announced on the archdiocese's website. The 30-year-old priest, who was ordained in June 2021
Erin McCole Cupp writes about the pains she endured from an abusive childhood. She writes: “Jesus provides in the Beatitudes a new law, a positive law that teaches survivors of family abuse and dysfunction what to do to unlearn bad scripts.” She
In his recent column, Monsignor Owen F. Campion suggests that American Catholics can learn from the recent discovery in Canada, where the bodies of 215 indigenous children were found on a school property formerly operated by the Catholic Church. Monsignor Campion gives
Writer Adam DeVille suggests that too often there is a negative stigma attached to seeking assistance with mental health issues, but he writes that counseling and therapy can help us to lose our false assumptions and let truth take root, allowing our