On
March 24, the New York Times reported that the priestly sex scandal
may have
implicated the pope. TheVatican,
including Cardinal Ratzinger who is...
The
leaders of the Anglican Catholic Church of theUnited
States andCanada
separately
sent petitions to theVatican
requesting full communion with the Catholic...
- Peru, Site of a
Eucharistic Congress
The
nation of Peru is slated to
become the site of the next Eucharistic Congress held by the Catholic Church in
Lima May 29
–...
Catholic
News Agency reported that “The Catholic Church’s membership in the United States
grew at the ‘robust’ rate of about 1.5 percent in 2008, according...
- US senator warns of ‘financial
meltdown’ risk ·
The
Financial Times reported that “the US is heading for a debt-driven
‘financial meltdown’ within five to seven years, according to Judd Gregg, the
outgoing...
“At
least 50 people have been killed in storms that have lashed parts of Spain, Portugal
and France,”
wrote the BBC. “Forty-five of the victims...
The
Salt Lake Tribune reported that Cardinal Francis George, head of the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops recently told a huge audience of 12,000 at...
The
Associated Press reported that “the disaster in Chile
has brought new attention to an undersea fault along the Pacific
Northwest capable of producing the...
“As
new details emerged on allegations of child sexual abuse by a priest in the Munich archdiocese then led by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican...
- Chile Quake Shortened Days ·
Science
reported that the massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile, the seventh strongest quake
in recorded history, “may have changed the entire Earth’s rotation and...