In an unusually personal letter, Benedict XVI admits mistakes in the handling of a Holocaust-denying bishop....

"Sixty-two percent of New Hampshire adults identified themselves as Christians last year, the American Religious Identification Survey for 2008 reported. This is a 23 percent decline from 1990, when 85 percent of adults called themselves Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants and other Christians...N...

Archbishop Theodosius of Sebaste By Israel Shamir | March 9, 2009 “Pope Benedict is not welcome in the Holy Land in the present circumstances", - said Archbishop Theodosius of Sebaste, the highest ranking native Palestinian Christian clergyman in Jerusalem, after it was announced in Israel that th...

John R. Donahue raises a troubling question in the current issue of Commonweal: To what extent is the restoration of pre-Vatican II liturgy and ideology a dismantling of the Church's relation to Judaism (painfully recovered at Vatican II)? Also, one wonders to what extent the neuralgic rea...

Considering they, as an organization, aided, abetted, and otherwise supported, the sexual (and mental) abuse of minors, this, doesn't necessarily, come as a surprise; Vatican defends Brazil excommunication A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-y...

In his Sunday Angelus, Pope Benedict underlined the importance of Prayer, fasting and forgiveness in our spiritual life. The Holy Father also made reference to the Spiritual Exercises he completed on Saturday in the Vatican, saying that this week of silence and prayer follows the example of Jesus wh...

Golias magazine notes that while the Vatican bends over backwards to accommodate the Society of Pius X it has been full of suspicion and mistrust of another Society, historically its most loyal and competent collaborator, namely the Society of Jesus. Golias lists (I don't know how accurately) th...

The Discovery Institute is seriously pissed off about being dissed by the Vatican, and they’re raising a stink about it through the media: The Associated Press: Rome meeting snubs intelligent design, creationism. ROME (AP) — A Vatican-backed conference on evolution is under attack from p...

About 2,000 Catholic Bishops gathered during the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council Man's deeper questionings *** The world of today reveals itself as at once powerful and weak, capable of achieving the best or the worst. There lies open before it the way to freedom or slavery, progress or regression...

Pilgrims may recall the “Tri-Diocesan Covenant� between the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle and the Catholic Dioceses of Maitland-Newcastle and Broken Bay, signed last year in a ritual at the Anglican Cathedral in Newcastle. On that occasion the “homilist� was Dominican Sister Jenny Gerathy, a...