Area Catholics react to diocese list of clergy accused of sexual abuse
Father Jason Johnston was removing an old picture frame from its place on the wall in St. Joseph Catholic Church in Starkville on Tuesday afternoon.
Man tells his story of abuse by a priest who served in the Columbus area
John Long will be 83 in April and confesses there are things he cannot remember from his childhood.
Such is the erosive nature of time.
Gay rights groups hail new Catholic tone
Gay rights groups are cautiously cheering a shift in tone from the Catholic Church toward homosexuals, encouraged that Pope Francis’ famous “Who am I to judge?” position has filtered down to bishops debating family issues at a Vatican meeting this week.
Records: Archbishop paid some problem priests to leave
MILWAUKEE — The archbishop of Milwaukee wrote a letter in 2003 to the Vatican office overseeing clergy sex abuse cases begging it to remove a
Black smoke from Sistine Chapel: No pope yet
Cardinals remained divided over who should be pope this morning after three rounds of voting, an indication of disagreements about the direction of the Catholic church following the upheaval unleashed by Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise resignation.
Pope’s bombshell sends troubled church scrambling
With a few words in Latin, Pope Benedict XVI did what no pope has done in more than half a millennium, stunning the world by announcing his resignation Monday and leaving the already troubled Catholic Church to replace the leader of its 1 billion followers by Easter.
Mo. bishop faces bench trial in case tied to abuse
A Missouri judge will try the criminal case against the highest-ranking Catholic official in the U.S. to be charged with shielding an abusive priest, three weeks before it was to go before a jury.
Nuns consider response to Vatican censure
At a pivotal national meeting, members of the largest group for American nuns have been weighing whether they should accept or challenge a Vatican order to reform.
The Pope’s apology
Re: Sinead O’Connor’s April 2, 2010, column “The Pope’s Apology” (p. 5A).
“During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic Cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out ‘Your Eminence are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?’”