CHURCH NEWS

Articles selected by J. Martos

2018

Cardinal Pell found guilty of "historical sexual offenses"At the Vatican women ask for the right to vote.Pope Accepts Archbishoop Wuerl’s Resignation Review of the accusations of Archbishop Carlo Maria ViganoThe plague of sexual abuse is worse than you think. By Matt Malone Cardinal Roger Mahony's fight for immigrants Past Catholic Positions on AbortionThe [probable] Assassination and Martyrdom of Thomas Merton
- Pope Francis and Cardinal Cupich on Economic Justice
- Vatican declines to rule on German dispute over Communion.
- Proposed request of synod on women
- Gallup: 39% of Catholics and 45% Protestants attend weekly
- Recommendations from 300 young people to the Vatican
- To Pope: “Tear down Church's 'walls of misogyny'”
- New Feast of the Virgin Mary
- Only 24% of Catholic women attend mass weekly
- Tobin: "No theological reason why the pope couldn't name a woman cardinal"

2017

- Catholicism is losing ground in China
- German cardinal: the "heresy" of Amoris Laetitia

- Clerical sex abuse in Argentina
- An image of the Catholic Church's future
- Why Millennial Women Are Embracing Atheism
- Pope Francis reshaped the Church
- Pope Francis' decentralization of liturgical power
- Bitter fruit for pro-Trump Catholics
- The Catholic Church as impact investor
- Nearly 100 sex abuse lawsuits against the Church in Guam
- Chicago Archdiocese opens first cremation garden in a cemetery
- Interview of Fr. James Martin on LGBT
- Australian police charge Vatican cardinal with sex offenses
- Pope Francis’s New Man in Newark
- Pope declines to renew mandate for German doctrine chief
- Pope honors 'rebel' priests censured for commitment to poor
- Pope again flexes papal muscle to keep tabs on cardinals
- Trump Rolls Back Birth-Control Mandate in Name of ‘Religious Freedom’ and This Nun Is Angry
- Vatican Message to Muslims for Ramadan
- Trump Rolls Back Birth-Control Mandate
- Vatican Message to Muslims for Ramadan
- Pope in Fatima to honor ichldren of peace
- The Vatican and Myanmar establish diplomatic relations
- The Pope's TED talk with a translation
- Francis leading against anti-migrant populism
- Muslim converts in Europe’s struggling churches
- Restored Jesus's tomb reopens in Jerusalem
- A married priest: priests shouldn't get married
- Pope: $100,000 to war-torn Aleppo
Pope: elderly married men could become priests
- Kupich: No to immigration agents without a warrant
- To Catholics: "Become Disrupters!"
- Powerful right-wing multimedia empire
- Posters in Rome: voice of the conservatives
- Staggering scale of sex abuse in Australia
- Communion to divorced:
      Cardinal Muller: No
      German bishops: Yes
- Bishops against death in priest's killing
- Francis to Trump:Care for the Poor
- Going beyond pope in remarriage guidelines

2016

- There's "Serious Division in the Church"
- Francis holds firm against conservatives
- Conservative cardinals challenge Pope
- First Latin American Jesuit General
- Pope gives $100,000 to Haiti
- Message to US about new cardinals
- Comment about the new cardinals
- 19 Photos of P. Francis' Arrival in U.S.
- One Catholic church Supports Its LGBTQ Members
- Religion's contribution to the economy
- Mormons and Catholics to Help New Refugees in U.S.
- Catholic Church Responds to Slavery at Sea
- Vatican: Panel on Female Deacons
- Vatican's push for breakthrough with China
- Chaput: Live like "brother and sister"
- Francis: Christians must apologize to gay
- Pope Francis: "the great majority" of marriages are null..."
- Bishop: "It is religion, including our own, that targets LGBT people"
- Canonization of Two New Saints
- US Lutherans: Agreement with Catholic Church
- Vatican: Panel on Female Deacons
- Catholic Church Responds to Slavery at Sea
- Francis's Amity with Islam
- How Catholic Women React to Women Deacons
- Pope criticizes West for trying to export own brand of democracy to Iraq, Libya
- Two Steps Back: The USCCB & the Ouster of an Editor
- Cuch: Pope's document on sex, marriage, family life: "A Game Changer"
- How Pope Francis makes change in the church inevitable
- Founder Mother Angelica died on Easter Sunday
- Catholic Trumpism Is Reigniting The ‘American Problem’
- Emeritus Benedict Warns of 'Deep Crisis' in Church
- Pope's abuse accountability tribunal going nowhere fast
- Vatican newspaper essays: Let women preach at Mass
- Pope challenges conservatives on Zika, immigration, death penalty
- Pope more popular than Trump
- Francis in Mexico on the exploitation of the indigenous
- Child abuse commission: "a token body?"
- Bishops not obliged to report child abuse
- Yes, Catholics may vote for Bernie Sanders
- Pope Francis, Iranian President meet face-to-face at the Vatican
- Pope Francis alters foot-washing ceremony with a decree
- Pope Francis: World’s powerful are ‘slaves to sin’ who risk hell by ignoring the poor
- What Pope Benedict Knew About Abuse in the Catholic Church
- The political crisis of ‘Conservative Catholicism’
- How Do Sunni and Shia Islam Differ?