Five years after he indicated he would be open to ordaining women, Bishop William M. Morris was removed from office.
The idea of the ordinariate is that people and priests can enter into communion with the Holy See together and stay together.
The homicide rate among youth in Latin America is double or triple the rate in all other parts of the world except Africa.
“John Paul II is blessed because of his faith—a strong, generous and apostolic faith,” Pope Benedict said on May 1.
The Catholic community continues efforts to prevent the needs of the poor from being heaped onto the pile of expendables.
President Benigno Aquino said that he would risk excommunication to support a law that would allow artificial contraception in the Philippines.
Mexico confronted the horror of another mass slaying in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.
Controversy has been brewing since a critique was released of the book Quest for the Living God, by Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J.
"John Paul II is blessed because of his faith—a strong, generous and apostolic faith," Pope Benedict said May 1 just minutes after formally beatifying his predecessor.
Two-thirds of developing countries are on track or close to meeting targets for tackling extreme poverty and hunger.