Catholic News

  1. Crowd attacks Pakistani village; 1,500 Christians flee
    Residents of the Muslim village of Chak 30 attacked the Christian village of Chak 31 in the Pakistani province of Punjab after local Christians were accused of being disrespectful towards ...
  2. USCCB questions Obama administration's use of drones
    The chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has invoked just-war criteria to question the moral legitimacy of the ...
  3. Vermont legalizes assisted suicide
    Following votes of 75-65 in the state house and 17-13 in the state senate, Vermont has become the fourth state to legalize assisted suicide. Oregon and Washington legalized the practice by ...
  4. Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop Coakley on Oklahoma tornado disaster
    Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City expressed gratitude for prayers for the archdiocese and disaster victims following the tornadoes that ravaged parts of Oklahoma on May 19 and ...
  5. Conference at Vatican Museums recalls attack on Pietà
    The Vatican Museums hosted a conference on May 21 devoted to the 1972 attack on Michelangelo's Pietà and the sculpture's subsequent restoration. On May 21, 1972, a mentally disturbed ...
  6. Reporters interpret papal blessing as an exorcism
    The Vatican was forced to deny that Pope Francis had performed an impromptu exorcism on Sunday, after reporters misinterpreted the Pontiff's blessing of a sick man in St. Peter's ...
  7. Suicide in Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
    A French man committed suicide inside Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on May 21. Dominique Venner, a 78-year-old historian and activist with a long history of involvement in ...
  8. Churches desecrated in Central African Republic; Christians flee to countryside
    In recent weeks, Islamist rebels who assumed power in the Central African Republic in March have kidnapped the rector of the cathedral in the nation's capital as well as the archdiocesan ...
  9. In 2nd message on Edict of Milan, Pope Francis calls for recognition of religious freedom
    On May 15, Pope Francis sent a telegram to Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan as Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew traveled to the Italian city to commemorate the 1700th anniversary of the ...
  10. Patriarch: Islamist regimes �even worse' than authoritarian ones
    Questioning "the motive and the reasoning" behind support for regime change in Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and Libya, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church said that Islamic fundamentalist ...
  11. In the Church, power means service, Pope tells Tuesday congregation
    "The struggle for power in the Church nothing new," Pope Francis told his congregation at a Mass in Domus Sanctae Marthae on May 21, referring to the Gospel account of disputes among the ...
  12. Closure of convents preceded Benghazi parish bombing
    The forced closure of several convents in eastern Libya preceded the recent bombing a parish there, according to Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, the apostolic vicar of Tripoli. "In ...
  13. Boston pro-lifers demonstrate against honorary degree for Enda Kenny
    About 50 people demonstrated outside the grounds of Boston College on May 20 as the Jesuit institution conferred an honorary degree on Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Boston's Cardinal ...
  14. Vatican Museum celebrate restoration of Michelangelo's Pieta
    The Vatican Museums are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the completion of restoration work on Michelangelo's Pieta. The Pieta, which stands in the nave of St. Peter's basilica, was ...
  15. Newark priest faces charges for violating court order
    Father Michael Fugee, the priest at the center of a scandal in the Newark, New Jersey archdiocese, faces a series of criminal charges for apparently violating a court order forbidding him ...
  16. Papal prayers for Oklahoma tornado victims
    Pope Francis offered a prayer for tornado victims in Oklahoma at his morning Mass on Tuesday, May 21. "Let us pray for the victims and those who are missing, especially children, ...
  17. South African bishops criticize police presence at private wedding
    The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference has criticized "the deployment of the police flying squad and other elements of the security forces" and "the use of an air-force base by ...
  18. Holy Spirit makes Church always new, Pope says at Pentecost Mass
    "God always brings newness--and demands our complete trust," Pope Francis said in his homily at a Pentecost Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. More than 200,000 people attended the ...
  19. Pope answers questions on evangelization, poverty at Pentecost vigil
    Questioned about the keys to successful evangelization, Pope Francis suggested that ecclesial movements should focus on three words: Jesus, prayer, and witness. The Holy Father took ...
  20. Egypt's Copts again under attack, but ex-nuncio sees positive strides
    Egypt's Christian minority suffered two more violent assaults during the past week, with bombings at Coptic Orthodox churches in two different towns. A mob of Muslim militants attacked ...
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