Catholic Church Scores Legal Win Over Attempted Change to Confessions

A federal judge sided with Catholic priests, blocking a Washington law that targeted the confidentiality of confession.

Catholic Church must do more to help sexual abuse survivors and hold church leaders to account, hard-hitting report says

A Vatican commission for the protection of children has said the mishandling by the Catholic Church’s leaders of sexual abuse allegations involving clergy is causing “ongoing harm” to victims.
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Catholic nonprofit’s global religious freedom report to be released Oct. 21

International Catholic nonprofit Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will release its religious freedom report on Oct. 21 in Rome ...

The Catholic Church wanted to give him a lifetime achievement award. Some disagreed.

Pope Leo XIV didn't have a problem with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin receiving a lifetimme achievement award from the church.
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Santa Rosa Diocese’s bankruptcy paused 260 sexual abuse lawsuits against Catholic church. Now some may proceed to trial

The judge in the Santa Rosa Diocese’s bankruptcy case recently put a small set of lawsuits on the path to trial, where they ...
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Worldwide Catholic population up, vocations down

On the occasion of World Mission Day, to be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 19, the Vatican news agency Fides presented statistics ...

12-Year-Old Girl, Who Was Injured Protecting Another Child During Minn. Catholic Church Shooting, Speaks Out: I'm 'Angry'

Lydia Kaiser, a 12-year-old girl who was among the dozen plus people injured in the Minneapolis Catholic Church shooting that ...

Catholic Church criticises Labour after VAT raid triggers faith school closures

The Catholic Church in England and Wales has criticised Labour’s private school raid for disrupting the lives of children.