EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated...
AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 11.20.2009 | Home
WILMINGTON, Del. — The Catholic Diocese of Wilmington is obligated to pay retirement benefits to six priests who are confirmed pedophiles, churc...
Michael J. Wilson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
We don't know if the Archdiocese really wants to stop running programs that help sick, homeless and orphaned children if the DC passes marriage equality legislation, but we have to take them at their word.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The child molestations, and filing sticky-fingered priests from diocese to diocese, is all part of God's grand plan, but showing the slightest bit of consideration for gay couples is just too much.
Washington Post | Tim Craig and Michelle Boorstein | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the c...
msn.com | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive without the fear of contracting swine flu -...
Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Have you had enough of Democrats that you elect selling you down the river? Are you angry enough?
Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...
Posted 11.06.2009 | Denver
Denver's Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput is urging his congregation to oppose federal health care legislation that funds abortions. KDVR and th...
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy
In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).
Katie Halper | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy
Wear a fancy suit with a top hat and a cane. Stuff yourself with pillow so you look as bloated as possible. Wear a dollar sign around your neck (you can make it out of tin foil.) You're... Too big to fail.
Rev. Astrid Storm | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
The Anglicans that the Vatican probably comes into the most (perhaps sole) contact with seem to wish they were Roman Catholic.
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
Pope Benedict XVI has opened the door of the Roman Catholic Church to those in the Anglican Communion who are disaffected over issues of ordaining gays and women and same-sex marriage.
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
The head of Kenya's Anglican Church, Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, has rejected the Pope's offer to allow disaffected Anglicans to join the Catholic Chur...
Bob Ostertag | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Now all those disgruntled Episcopalians have a choice to make: stay on the team that accepts openly gay priests, or bolt for another team run by closeted homosexual pedophiles. It's a tough call.
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican announced Tuesday it was making it easier for Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism – a surprise move desig...
Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
Every woman has different life circumstances. Every pregnancy produces different challenges. Who is more able to assess the moral validity of every woman's abortion? I certainly don't think it's the Archbishop.
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
If we distort the framework of nondiscrimination for religious organizations it privileges prejudice. We would, in the name of separating church and state, give the church license to harm our state.
AP | By ARIEL DAVID | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
ROME (AP)-- Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin -- revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb -- and say the experiment proves the...
Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
At this time every year, people bring their animals along with them to church to get blessed by Catholic priests. This ceremony commemorates St. Fran...
Claire Walter | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver
Still a small offshoot of the Catholic Church, the Ecumenical Catholic Communion estimates that it has about 2,500 members nationwide, one-fifth or more in Colorado -- and it ordains women.
Steven Waldman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
While some have chided me for caring too much about what the Bishops think, Bishops matter a great deal politically when it comes to the abortion-and-health care debate.
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
VERONA, Italy — It happened night after night, the deaf man said, sometimes in the priest's bedroom, sometimes in the bathroom, even in the conf...
Chicago Catholic News | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago
A religious publisher affiliated with the Archdiocese of Chicago has apologized for authoring a prayer that lavished praise on the late Ted Kennedy, w...
AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay is clearing the way for homosexual couples to adopt children. The Senate's final approval Wednesday makes Uruguay...
AP | RAY HENRY | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics