By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Priests from all over the world are expected to gather in Rome this week to attend a world meeting of clergy from June 9-11 to mark the end of the Year for Priests.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Witnesses now say that the man responsible for the brutal murder of a bishop in Turkey last Thursday, an act not thought to be politically or ideologically motivated, apparently climbed onto the roof of his house moments after the killing and shouted: “I killed the great Satan! Allah Akbar!”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The U.S. Bishops have sent a letter to Congress expressing their opposition to the federal Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA), a bill which they say poses serious danger to marriage and will trample on the rights of those who speak the truth about homosexuality.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The school kitchen and auditorium at St. Rose of Lima parish in Maywood, California was desecrated this weekend by vandals who scrawled “666” on the walls and caused other damage of a “heinous nature” that police are now calling a hate crime.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After discovering the remains of the once condemned 16th century astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus, church authorities in Poland have reburied him with honors.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of the Archdiocese of Boston is standing behind the pastor of a Catholic elementary school in his diocese who made a controversial decision not to accept the child of a same-sex couple.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Even though the ranks of the priesthood have been declining in many parts of the world, the number of permanent deacons has been expanding almost 30 times faster than the priesthood since the year 2000, resulting in an estimated 40 percent of U.S. parishes now being run by a deacon rather than an ordained priest.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A woman who was excommunicated last month after being ordained a “priest” has died and the Archdiocese of Chicago will not permit her to receive a Catholic burial.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A senior correspondent of a major daily political newspaper in Washington DC has retracted and apologized for a story it ran last week that accused the apostolic nuncio of verbally abusing a victim of clerical abuse.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Facing challenges on several fronts, the Vatican has launched its most detailed defense to date against claims that it should be held liable for U.S. bishops who did not report priests who abused minors, and that a 1962 Vatican document required bishops to remain silent about these cases.
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