National News Schoolgirl Offers $1 Million if Pope Exchanges Argentine Beef for Vegan Tacos
First, she wrote a letter that’s now been published in major newspapers around the globe asking the pope to go vegan for Lent. Now, she’s knocking at his door asking for a meeting in person so that she can make her case directly to him. Read More
National News Survivor on Pope’s Anti-Abuse Summit: ‘He’s Gotta Deliver’
One of the most outspoken survivors of clerical abuse says that he wants to see accountability for both the crime and cover-up of clerical abuse, and that if an upcoming summit fails to yield these results, Pope Francis will have failed victims. Read More
International News US Bishops Laud Pope’s Call to Defrock McCarrick as ‘Just,’ ‘Determined’
Pope Francis’s historic decision to defrock former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Saturday prompted an immediate wave of responses from U.S. prelates, who lauded the decision. Read More
International News Former Cardinal McCarrick Defrocked for Sexual Abuse
Pope Francis approved the removal of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the clerical state, colloquially known as “laicization” or “defrocking,” the Vatican announced Feb. 16. Read More
Diocesan News Diocese of Brooklyn Releases Names of Credibly Accused Clergy
“We know this list will generate many emotions for victims who have suffered terribly. For their suffering, I am truly sorry,” Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio said in a video statement. Read More
International News New Book Claims Gay Subculture Flourishes at Vatican
A new book, whose release is timed to coincide with the start of Pope Francis’s major summit on sex abuse on February 21, contains sweeping, although unverified, claims that 80 percent of the Vatican clergy are gay. Read More
National News NJ Dioceses Release Names of Clergy Credible Accused of Abuse
Following a trend throughout the country, New Jersey’s five Catholic dioceses released on Feb. 13 the names of its priests credibly accused of sexual abuse. Read More
Columns
Surrendering To Something More
Marriage: A Relationship for Holiness
The World God Created Brings Him Joy
Editorials/Letters
Editorial: This Is Infanticide
Letters: Msgr. Keane: A Good Priest
Letter: Respect and Admiration
Letter: Cuomo: Spin and Duplicity
Letter: Spirit of the Law
Letter: Excommunicating Cuomo
Obituaries
Sister M. Bernardus Dwyer, I.H.M.
Sister Rita Maria McCauley, C.S.J.
