A Benedictine abbess who granted refuge to female asylum-seekers faces trial for refusing to pay a fine, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA.

Governor Doug Ducey today extended an executive order pausing operations on gyms, bars, nightclubs, movie theaters, water parks, and tubing. Mass gatherings limited to 50 people or less.

One area in which those internal contradictions are especially clear these days is its approach to the LGBTQ+ community, as the recent case of an Italian priest who presided over the civil union of a lesbian couple on the outskirts of Rome neatly illustrates.

"Because of the pandemic, physical presence has become more difficult and, therefore, the website aims to be a place for welcoming, collaboration and openness,"

Prof. Myriam Wijlens, a canon lawyer and member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, hails a new Vademecum on procedures regarding cases of sexual abuse of minors, calling it a major step forward in seeking justice and truth.

A firm that has filed previous legal complaints against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick added another complainant against the defrocked prelate alleging he abused a boy at a beach house in Sea Girt, New Jersey, in the early 1980s.

About two weeks after having no public Masses, St. Joseph Church in Yoakum started livestreaming on Facebook. The challenges then followed.

nocente Orlando Montano, ex coronel del ejército salvadoreño acusado de participar en "la decisión, el diseño o la ejecución de los asesinatos" de seis jesuitas en 1989, testificó en su juicio en España que nunca se ordenó eliminar a los sacerdotes.

La Congregación para el Clero del Vaticano emitió una nueva instrucción sobre el cuidado pastoral que explica el papel de los laicos en la misión de evangelización de la iglesia y ofrece orientación en las reformas y reestructuraciones de la parroquia.

Daniel murió a causa de un disparo en el corazón cuando un tirador entró en la casa de su familia en North Brunswick Township, New Jersey, el 19 de julio.

La destrucción de una estatua de Cristo en una iglesia católica de la Arquidiócesis de Miami entristeció a la comunidad parroquial de la Iglesia del Buen Pastor y provocó que el arzobispo de Miami Thomas G. Wenski llamara a la policía para investigar el incidente como un crimen de odio.

'Humana Communitas' en la era de la pandemia", detalla una serie de meditaciones clave e "inoportunas sobre el renacimiento de la vida" frente a una crisis mundial de salud, medioambiental y económica.

"It is too soon to arrive to any conclusion, but we have seen other churches vandalized around the country. We totally 'condemn' this action. We invite our community to pray for peace," parish officials said in a statement.

The coronavirus pandemic is creating fear over limited resources for treating patients, especially the most seriously ill, but "this is not a time to sideline our ethical and moral principles," said the chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Thousands of saints have been raised to the altars after these thorough investigations, while the causes of many other candidates are usually suspended or closed when there is insufficient evidence of one's sanctity or the lack of miracle. Some are delayed due to proverbial "skeletons in the closet" uncovered during the investigation into their lives.

The death of Michael Hickson, a 46-year-old quadriplegic, inside an Austin, Texas, hospice in June, pricked the conscience of Charlie Camosy. Camosy is an associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University in New York, has focused on medical decisions that might have gone unnoticed.

Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, slated for 19 to 25 July, is an educational campaign organized by Bishops of the United States to promote Catholic beliefs about human sexuality and conjugal love.

Prior to the July 17 execution of Dustin Honken, a 52-year-old man from Iowa, Catholic leaders pleaded for a lesser sentence or at least a delay.

The Church offers space for everyone to find their place, while respecting the vocation of each individual. This idea forms the core of the Instruction on the parish, which the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy released on Monday.

French police have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a Gothic cathedral in Nantes. The blaze broke out in three places in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul July 18.