by Alessandro Speciale | Feb 20, 2012 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) One the eve of his elevation to cardinal, New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan said he would like to change the caricature of his city as a modern-day Gomorrah. “New York seems to have an innate interest and respect for religion and...
by Alessandro Speciale | Feb 20, 2012 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) It isn’t anywhere on the official agenda, but as Roman Catholic leaders meet in Rome this weekend, looming in the background will be a recent string of Vatican leaks that reveal a bitter power struggle among the hierarchy. In recent weeks,...
by Josef Kuhn | Dec 13, 2011 | News
(RNS) Cardinal John P. Foley, the longtime chief of communications for the Vatican who brought Christmas midnight Mass from St. Peter’s Basilica to millions of Americans, died on Sunday (Dec. 11) just outside of his native Philadelphia. He was 76. Although the...
by David Gibson | Nov 15, 2011 | News
BALTIMORE (RNS) The standoff between the White House and the nation’s Catholic bishops over gay marriage and other hot-button issues may be easing after a quiet Oval Office meeting between President Obama and the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Still,...
by Francis Rocca | May 17, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The world’s Catholic bishops have one year to set national policies on clerical sex abuse of minors, the Vatican said on Monday (May 16), but such policies may vary significantly in each country, and will not be binding on individual bishops. All...
