The president of the Polish Bishops’ conference said that in meetings with a Vatican official, several church leaders criticized the Vatican’s handling of sex abuse cases, particularly “dispro-portionate punishments” inflicted on bishops accused of cover-ups in...
After months of anticipa-tion, the White House announ-ced on October 8 afternoon that President Joe Biden will nominate former U.S. Senator Joseph Donnelly as the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. Like President Joe Biden, Donnelly is a devout Irish Catholic. Donnelly,...
Kathi Aultman was six weeks postpartum when she returned to work at an abortion clinic in Gainesville, Florida. She performed abortions on the weekends to earn money while in medical school. “I felt really strongly that abortion was a woman’s right,” Aultman told in...
Leaders of various religious communities and social organizations have started a journey in the southern Indian state of Kerala to promote communal harmony and national integration. The journey named ‘Sarva Dharma Sadbhavana Yatra’ (Journey to foster goodwill among...
A top court in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has ruled that a Dalit Hindu woman marrying a Christian or displaying religious symbols such as the cross cannot be cited as reasons to revoke her scheduled caste (SC) community certification. The Madurai bench of...
