By Courtney Grogan/CNA | WASHINGTON — The U.S. bishops’ conference called for a Vatican-led investigation into allegations of sexual abuse and cover-ups surrounding Archbishop Theodore McCarrick,…
By Stephanie Mann | On Nov. 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary to be a dogma of faith in the apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus. He proclaimed Aug. 15 a Holyday of Obligation as a Solemnity. Less…
By Sherry Antonetti | Having read 357 pages of the report so far, my heart howls to heaven and at the walls of my church. I want to cry, “Mountains, fall on us” for such systemic failures to protect the innocent and stop people…
By John M. Grondelski | Summer is, in a lot of ways, the “revelation of the body.” That’s true, even on the most natural level. People wear less. Just peruse the typical woman’s or, even more, teen…
By CNA/EWTN News | ADELAIDE, Australia — An Australian court ruled Tuesday that Archbishop Philip Wilson, who was convicted in May of failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse disclosed to him…
By Patti Armstrong | “Are you serious? How can you go back to your husband?” This woman was so angry upon hearing that a friend was going back to her husband after his infidelity that she was shaking. The two women had gotten…
By Patti Armstrong | BISMARCK, N.D. — The announcement last month from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in the United Kingdom that changing the DNA of a human embryo could be “morally permissible” is the…
By Dave Armstrong | It’s a common myth that the Catholic Church makes such a claim. The Church contends, rather, that an authoritative Christian tradition and Church were necessary to establish the canon of Scripture.
In many…
By Judy Roberts | When Ralph Martin of Renewal Ministries wrote his “Letter to Troubled Catholics” in response to the latest clergy sexual-abuse scandal, he quoted a Catholic who suggested sending Church…
By Michael Warsaw | When something divinely instituted, like the Catholic priesthood, is tarnished, you know the onslaught from the evil one is formidable.
As the sex-abuse scandal of 2002 regains a fresh…