For over three decades, the allegations of abuse against Slovenian artist and ex-Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik were met with cover-ups and bureaucratic delays.
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Labor Day a call to build communion, equity amid challenges of AI, says Archbishop Fabre
This year’s observance of Labor Day underscores Pope Leo XIV’s call to be “builders of communion” while safeguarding human dignity in the face of artificial intelligence, said Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre.
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Cardinal Cupich, women religious, Catholic pharmacist sue Illinois over assisted suicide law
In their lawsuit, the individuals and religious orders argued the law would require them to facilitate such deaths for their patients in violation of their faith.
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Latin Mass supporters flock to British shrine looking for ‘firm convictions’
British supporters of the traditional Latin Mass have welcomed an unprecedented youth turnout at their annual pilgrimage.
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Haitian youth’s apparent suicide ‘a death of despair’ after TPS Haiti ends, says archbishop
Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old student on scholarship in his first semester at Dayton’s Wright State University, was pronounced dead at the scene after walking into traffic on Interstate 70 in Springfield, Ohio.
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Hong Kong court upholds convictions of Cardinal Joseph Zen and others over protester relief fund
A Hong Kong court dismissed appeals brought by a 94-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal and four others over their convictions for failing to register a now-defunct fund that aimed to help people arrested during anti-government protests.
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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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Quebec’s Cardinal Ouellet vindicated in abuse lawsuit; accuser ordered to pay him $100K in damages
A judge in Montreal has found sexual misconduct accusations against Quebec’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet to be unfounded and ordered his accuser to pay him $100,000.
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Pope Leo: Catholics cannot be ‘unengaged spectators’ amid ‘injustice, discrimination and violence’
In a new series of reflections on the Second Vatican Council’s pastoral constitution “Gaudium et Spes,” Pope Leo said the faithful are called to leave behind “all passivity and indifference” toward current events.
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Catholic school reopening in Gaza is a reminder that ‘hope is stronger than fear,’ bishop says
As children worldwide head back to classrooms this fall, students in Gaza are returning to a vastly different reality as the school at Holy Family Parish reopens for the first time since the start of Israel’s military campaign.