If Pope Francis wants to see firsthand the challenges the Vatican faces in Latin America, he should visit Rio’s notoriously violent slums. Here the youth are restless and evangelical church halls run by homegrown Protestant pastors appear on every second block, a pattern repeated on the poor periphery of most Brazilian cities.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix donated $1,000 to a group leading efforts to pass a ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota.... Read more»
Councilman Kozachik on the city’s proposed funding for the Marist College building downtown, plus sheriff candidate Mark Napier and CD3 candidate Jaime Vasquez.... Read more»
El Salvador’s vicious gangs have called a cease-fire, enticed in part by conjugal visits for incarcerated leaders. Salvadorans are skeptical it will last.... Read more»
Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass and met with Fidel Castro on Wednesday in Havana, Cuba.... Read more»
Pope Benedict XVI on Friday denounced the “powerful political and cultural currents” seeking to legalize gay marriage in the United States.... Read more»
The Obama administration announced Friday a change to the new rule requiring employers to offer health insurance that fully covers birth control, in an attempt to accommodate religious groups opposed to the rule.... Read more»3
The debate on women’s rights has shifted to the contraceptive-coverage mandate, as the President Obama’s administration faces criticism from the Catholic church and Republicans.... Read more»1
Catholic leaders from around the world gathered in Rome on Monday for a Vatican summit on how the church could end sexual abuse of children by priests.... Read more»
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is promising a legal challenge to federal rules the Obama administration reaffirmed Friday requiring health insurers to provide women with a range of preventive health services, including birth control, without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or deductible.... Read more»1
Starting on Saturday, English-speaking Catholics will hear new words at Mass, as the Catholic church begins using a revised translation of the Roman Missal.... Read more»
Ireland was shocked this week by yet another damning report on clerical abuse of children, with horrific stories of young lives ruined by predatory priests.... Read more»
The Vatican has just issued a report that declares, without qualification and with utmost urgency, that global climate change is occurring, that humans bear responsibility for it, and that it is our gravest moral imperative to reduce carbon emissions as quickly as possible.... Read more»
The Catholic Church in Mexico has lashed out at the capital’s liberal city government for “immorality.“The language used in the first Sunday paper of 2011 could not have been more attention-grabbing: the capital government, said the Mexico City archdiocese, is so intolerant it acts like a “secular Taliban.”... Read more»
Is celibacy a sine qua non of priesthood? Pope Benedict thinks so. A couple of Belgian bishops disagree.... Read more»
Scots bristle at the $19 million price tag for pontiff’s quick pop-in at Holyrood Palace.... Read more»
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