Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington said his decision to remove a high-profile priest as an archdiocesan exorcist was driven by the public way he exercised his ministry, not by his specific beliefs about UFOs.
The El Paso Diocese-run nonprofit is one of the largest providers of legal services for unaccompanied children. It says the U.S. is defying a court order.
Vietnam is among the five largest contributors to marine plastic pollution globally. For local fishing communities, the consequences are becoming impossible to ignore. Every trip brings encounters with floating debris.
Mexican soccer fans have prayed for World Cup success at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City, where the faithful dressed a Christ Child in the country's official soccer kit.
Despite the fact that many Venezuelan faith leaders have been themselves impacted by the ongoing disaster, they’ve sprung into action to provide food, psychological support and other basic needs to the large population of victims.
On the anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling reinstating the U.S. death penalty, faith leaders join calls for an end to the death penalty. But religion has also been present in support for capital punishment.
St. Agnes in St. Paul is not affiliated with SSPX, but parishioners said they were saddened by the schism and would continue to pray for a united church.
One deacon was also cited in the sixth of seven such investigations into the handling of abuse in each of Michigan's Catholic dioceses. The report cites 104 victims, with most cases before 2002.
