Catholic Church

Rumors swirled for decades, it was an open secret but the Church turned a blind eye

The sexual abuse scandal roiling the Catholic Church, although mostly under the radar in the recent past, has not gone away. In California--and elsewhere--the lawsuits are mounting — middle-aged men, saying they were sexually assaulted as children by a Boy...

Family, not religion is at the heart of our ethnic definition

Pope Francis on Monday urged fraternal dialogue in politics, rather than hostile negotiations. "Politics is above all the art of meeting," Francis told the French ecumenical Chemin Neuf Community. "Certainly this meeting must be lived welcoming the other and accepting...

The Catholic Church does not refuse LGBT Catholics, Pope Francis said Monday. Answering three questions from Jesuit Father James Martin on LGBT Catholics and what he would say to one of them "who suffered a refusal by the Church", Francis...

The Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of Brooklyn, will accept a relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial to be considered for Sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church, on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. in the Chapel at...

On Wednesday April 25th the American Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, announced that on July 7 Pope Francis will travel to the city of Bari. At the time of Burke’s announcement I was on my way...

Upon seeing the “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” exhibition, I could not help but recall my little cousin’s astonishment during a Corpus Christi procession. Inaugurated at a $33,000-a-plate gala that made headlines around the world, the exhibition boasts...

The exhibition is on in Rome's Capitoline Museums until September 10th and it shows the story of the painter Bernardino di Betto, nicknamed “Pinturicchio.” Between 1492 and 1494, he decorated a suite of rooms in the Apostolic Palace for the...