Roman Catholic Church News

Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen said on Saturday it was shocking and disturbing that three decades of horrific child abuse was hidden by the Catholic hierarchy in Dublin.

Pope Benedict XVI hailed a 1984 Vatican-mediated friendship agreement between Argentina and Chile as a "luminous example" of peace winning out over war during an audience Saturday with the presidents of both countries.

With the House debate on health care at its hottest, the U.S. Catholic bishops issued a stunning ultimatum: Impose an absolute ban on tax funds for abortions, or we call for defeat of the Pelosi bill.

A few days ago I sat next to a fundamentalist Christian at dinner. She asked me at one point what my religion was.

Scores of victims of sexual abuse in Roman Catholic parishes in Dublin contacted counselling services on Thursday after the publication of a report showed archbishops obsessively covered up decades of widespread abuse.

The Garda Commissioner has revealed tonight that officers are examining a sickening report which found paedophile priests were shielded by peers and officials to protect the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Churcha s a dona t ask, dona t tella cover-up culture exposed in a damning clerical abuse report is dead and gone, a senior cleric said today.

Pope Benedict XVI says immigrant children must be fully integrated into their new societies and protected from the risks of exploitation.

The statuette of Prague Infant Jesus whom people from all over the world implore for aid will as from yesterday wear the gilded crown that Pope Benedict XVI donated to it during his September visit to the Czech Republic, Carmelites Prior Petr Sleich has told CTK.

ROME, NOV. 24, 2009 .- Representatives of Catholic women's organizations from 25 countries have informed the secretary-general of the United Nations that they do not support the international body's convention against the discrimination of women.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has acknowledged in court papers that it documented 32 accusations of sexual abuse of children by priests associated with a parish here over 40 years.

The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI will hold talks next week with visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

A report into clerical child sex abuse in the Dublin Catholic Archdiocese is to be published on Thursday detailing decades of cover-ups by church hierarchy.

The leader of the Galveston-Houston Catholic Archdiocese says he opposes any health care reform legislation that allows for even indirect federal funding of abortions.

The report into the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations by Church and State authorities in Dublina s Catholic archdiocese will be published tomorrow.

More trouble for our area's Catholic schools. Fourteen schools n Maryland and DC are warning they may have to close, consolidate or reorganize.

A Roman Catholic group at the centre of an inquiry into child abuse in Ireland today offered a 161m in cash and land to make amends to its victims.

Same-sex marriage advances in one region, then retreats in another, making the United States a two-nation nation on this issue -- now and for years to come.

The governors of Virginia and Maryland say it would be wrong for the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington to quit providing social services if the District of Columbia approves gay marriage.

Talk about getting stuck with the cheap seats. The Pontiac Silverdome, built three decades ago for $56 million, is being virtually given away - sold at auction for a paltry $583,000. That comes out to $7.25 a seat, a fire sale that's reduced the once-proud arena to another sad symbol of the Detroit area's economic collapse.