* Cardinals look for accomplices of butler, held in "safe room" * Vatican's number three says book of leaks is "criminal" act ...
Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.28.2012
Would Joan of Arc have fought for the current Catholic crowd in Rome? How would they have "contained" her -- just as they seek to "contain" the good nuns? Would she have died for the Vatican Boys Club? Or would she have raised the banner of the Sisters?
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.29.2012
VATICAN CITY — The biggest scandal to rock the Vatican in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler, arrested for allegedly having confident...
Reuters | Posted 05.29.2012
VATICAN CITY, May 28 (Reuters) - The Vatican on Monday denied Italian press reports that a cardinal was among those being investigated in a scandal ...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.28.2012
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's investigation into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler...
Father Alberto Cutie | Posted 05.26.2012
For years there have been many people in authority above him who were repeatedly made aware of the struggles and difficulties surrounding the abusive behavior of the founder and other dysfunctions in the Legionaries
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.29.2012
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican's investigation into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butle...
AP | Posted 05.26.2012
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Friday that it has arrested someone for illegally holding secret documents as it tries to get to the bottom of a...
Reuters | Posted 05.26.2012
VATICAN CITY, May 25 (Reuters) - The Vatican, which has been embroiled for months in a scandal involving the leak of secret papers, said on Friday i...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.24.2012
VATICAN CITY — The president of the Vatican bank has effectively been ousted after receiving a unanimous vote of no-confidence from bank oversee...
Mary C. Johnson | Posted 05.23.2012
At the end of this month, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will meet to formulate a response to a Vatican trap whose cunning is best appreciated within the long tradition of religious authorities who craft impossible dilemmas for those they perceive as threats.
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.19.2012
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has denounced as "criminal" a new book of leaked internal documents that shed light on power struggles inside the Hol...
Posted 05.17.2012
By Alessandro Speciale Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican's doctrinal office said "further discussions" will be needed with the ...
Michele Somerville | Posted 05.17.2012
So rogue are most Roman Catholics when it comes to papal teaching, that Catholic dissidence often seems the norm.
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.14.2012
ROME — Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into ...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.15.2012
ROME -- Coroners and medical technicians swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investi...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.11.2012
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is investigating seven priests from the troubled Legion of Christ religious order for alleged sexual abuse of minors ...
Carol DeChant | Posted 05.08.2012
Does the Pope really want to force American Catholics to choose between standing with our nuns or with a male hierarchy interrogating them for nebulous infractions, with a stated agenda of keeping their findings secret?
AP | Posted 05.07.2012
VATICAN CITY -- Twenty-six Swiss men have joined the oldest standing army in the world, swearing to give up their lives to protect the pope as the Vat...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 04.30.2012
The great crime in the Vatican's sex abuse scandal is not the existence of pedophiles within its ranks of priests, although that is bad enough, but the fact that the Church as a matter of policy transferred known pedophiles to unsuspecting parishes.
Sarah O'Leary | Posted 04.27.2012
Why doesn't my Catholic Church get its own house in order first? Get the plank/log/boulder/semi truck/elephant out of its own eye before it tries to remove a speck from another's eye?
Patricia McGuire | Posted 04.26.2012
Whatever the sisters might have done to cross invisible lines of vowed obedience according to Church rules, they have done so with courage and conviction. They deserve reverence, not retribution.
Brother Louis DeThomasis, FSC | Posted 04.25.2012
Mean-spiritedness, hostility and acrimony flourish in a church that should be all about the peace and love that Jesus brought to our world. Certainly, all sides are to blame as we permit these differences to obfuscate the "Good News" of the faith.
Mary C. Johnson | Posted 04.24.2012
All institutional power in the official Church is held by ordained men. These men seem to believe that protecting the institution requires that they demand absolute unity of doctrine and unquestioning obedience to their own decisions.
Michele Somerville | Posted 04.23.2012
The Vatican is losing the war of public opinion in the pews. It needs to flex its muscles. It needs to create fresh fear.
Reuters | Posted 05.29.2012