Jul 29, 2021 | US & World
The Boston Globe reported July 29 that police in the Boston suburb of Wellesley have charged former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 in a criminal complaint filed by Wellesley Police in a district court in nearby Dedham, Massachusetts.
Jun 18, 2021 | US & World
The U.S. bishops approved by a wide margin a plan to draft a document to examine the “meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church” following a lengthy debate during their spring general assembly.
May 19, 2021 | US & World
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has named Jesuit Father Stephen Chow Sau-yan, a native of Hong Kong and provincial of the Jesuits’ Chinese province, to be the new bishop of Hong Kong. The appointment of the 61-year-old Jesuit, who also serves as...
May 6, 2021 | Local, Pope Francis & Vatican, US & World
Pope prays resources move from military to pandemic prevention By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Under the gaze of a seventh-century icon of Mary, Pope Francis launched a monthlong, global recitation of the rosary, pleading for...
Apr 21, 2021 | US & World
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Religious and priestly life must be filled with the simple joy of caring every day for what really matters — faithful friendship with God and one another, Pope Francis said. “I pray...
Apr 14, 2021 | US & World
By Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service CLEVELAND (CNS) — A Kings Bay Plowshares participant convicted of federal charges stemming from a 2018 protest at a Georgia naval submarine base received a 21-month prison sentence. U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood...
