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Pope Benedict XVI has been named an honorary citizen of Romano Canavese, the Italian town that is the birthplace of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Secretary of State. The Pope visited ...

Officials have shut down the operations of the only Christian television station in the Palestinian territories. Station managers say that they do not understand the complaint against ...

Speaking to the German parliament, Chancellor Angelo Merkel called for "truth and clarity" in an investigation into sexual abuse of children. Although the scandal sweeping Germany has ...

A coalition of American nuns, claiming to represent over 50,000 members of women's religious orders, has broken with the country's Catholic bishops by coming out in support of the ...

A Christian businessman was killed in another execution-style murder in Mosul, as the intimidation campaign against the Christian minority in that Iraqi city continues. Archbishop Emil ...

Continuing his series of weekly talks on the great intellectual figures of Church history, Pope Benedict XVI spoke at his public audience of March 17 on St. Bonaventure, offering his third ...

POPE Benedict XVI will follow in the footsteps of his predecessor by holding a huge public mass at Coventry Airport.

Vatican City, Mar 17, 2010 / 09:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A statement was released by the Holy See on Wednesday confirming the formation of a commission to investigate the “phenomenon” of Medjugorje.

As U.S. health care reform moves into the congressional home stretch, it’s as good of a time as any to remember that organized health care in America owes much to Catholic religious orders, and most of those are religious orders of women.

As Cardinal Sean Brady of Armagh came under growing pressure to resign because of his indirect role in the handling of a pedophile priest, the Irish bishops' conference pointed out that ...

A British Catholic adoption agency has won a victory in its court challenge against regulations that would have required equal treatment for same-sex couples. Catholic Care, an agency ...

During his regular weekly audience on March 17, Pope Benedict XVI said that his letter to the Irish Church, in response to the sex-abuse scandal there, would be released very soon. ...

The Vatican has confirmed the formation of a commission to investigate the reported Marian apparitions at Medjugorje, presumably leading up to a formal Vatican statement on the ...

VATICAN CITY, 17 MAR 2010 (VIS) - The Holy See Press Office today published the following communique: "An international investigative commission on...

VATICAN CITY, 17 MAR 2010 (VIS) - In remarks to pilgrims at the end of today's general audience, the Pope addressed a special greeting to Irish faithf...

VATICAN CITY, 17 MAR 2010 (VIS) - In a brief ceremony following today's general audience, the Holy Father received the honorary citizenship of Romano ...

Latino population growth over the past two decades has boosted numbers in the Catholic Church, but a new, in-depth analysis shows Latinos' allegiance to Catholicism is waning as some move toward other Christian denominations or claim no religion at all.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI said today that Friday he will sign his letter to the Catholics of Ireland on the sex abuse crisis and “send it soon after.”

Munich, Germany, Mar 17, 2010 / 03:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Tourism chaplain for the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising has been immediately suspended from ministry after more allegations that he sexual abused minors.

The Catholic Church is again funding research into the medical use of adult stem cells.