In response to the many U.S. dioceses that are facing severe financial pressure as a result of the sex abuse crisis, and are now being forced to close parishes, the Congregation for the Clergy is working on a document that will provide guidelines for the closing or merging of parishes.
In the final days leading up to the next World Youth Day, which will be held in Madrid from August 16-21 of this year, the Vatican has released statistics showing that nearly a half million youth are registered to attend.
A detailed report on the kidnap and forced conversion of a 24 year-old Pakistani Catholic girl will be presented to the UN Council for Human Rights within the next few weeks in order to draw attention to the plight of Christian girls who are routinely kidnapped and forced to convert before being married to Muslim men.
A Catholic church in North East, Maryland was desecrated last weekend when thieves broke into the building and stole the tabernacle.
Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley has asked an Iraqi woman known as the "Mother Theresa" of Iraq, to start a new order, the Daughters of Mary, Our Lady of Nazareth.
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