As he prepared to travel to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families, Pope Francis said he hoped his visit would "remind us all of the essential place of the family in the life of society and...
In the preface to a new book, Pope Francis insists that his family treatise "Amoris Laetitia" does not represent a "rupture" with previous teaching and that it's based on the...
Pope Francis will meet survivors of sexual abuse during his trip to Ireland Aug. 25-26, but it will be up to the survivors to decide whether any information about the meeting will be released, said...
By LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said penance and purification is needed to rebuild the U.S. Catholic Church and respond to the abuse crisis. He stressed the importance of strong...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Some victims of clergy sex abuse and their supporters are calling on federal and state entities to investigate sex abuse within the...
IMAGE: CNS Photo/ courtesy of The Catholic University of America By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In an Aug. 18 letter to students and staff at The Catholic University of America, its president, John Garvey...
By SCRANTON, Pa. (CNS) -- The Jesuit-run University of Scranton announced Aug. 20 it was rescinding honorary degrees given to three former bishops of the Diocese of Scranton, and removing their names...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By BOSTON (CNS) -- Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley said Aug. 20 that he takes full responsibility for office procedures that resulted in him never being notified about a June...
By Hannah Brockhaus/CNA/EWTN News | VATICAN CITY — A member of Pope Francis’ Commission for the Protection of Minors said Tuesday that the role bishops and superiors have played in the...
By Fr. Dwight Longenecker | Some time ago I was speaking at a large Catholic conference and the organizers had put some time for confession into the program, so I joined with the other priests and...
By John Clark | With the current deluge of sexual allegations against high-ranking prelates, the faith of many Catholics has been terribly shaken. Ralph Martin recently commented that he had...
By Ines Murzaku | Forty years ago, on August 6, 1978, on the Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus, in Castel Gandolfo near Rome, Blessed Paul VI returned to the house of the Father. The Holy Father...
By Register Staff | Several U.S. bishops have issued statements in reaction to the scandal surrounding Archbishop (formerly Cardinal) Theodore McCarrick and the Pennsylvania Grand Jury...