Pandemic restricts attendance at consistory for new cardinals

“Our mission is to heal the world,” Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the papal nuncio to the United States, told the bishops.

Bishops will meet virtually Nov. 16-17, and are expected to discuss McCarrick report, youth protection, pastoral responses to COVID-19 pandemic and racism

WASHINGTON. The Catholic Church’s unusual transparency in a report detailing the ascent to power of former U.S. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, despite top Church officials’

Findings of the report mark “another tragic chapter” in Church’s efforts to confront sexual abuse by clergy, says Archbishop Gomez

Report called a necessary step in understanding McCarrick’s rise in the Church despite rumors, allegations of sexual misconduct

Biden follows JFK as the second Catholic ever elected president

McCarrick was dismissed by the Vatican from the clerical state in February 2019 following an investigation of accusations of abusing both children and seminarians.

In 2015 Alfred Dewayne Brown became the 154th person exonerated from death row. Tennessee has had three exonerations since 1973.

Abortion-related measures were among 120 proposed state laws and constitutional amendments on the ballot in 32 states.

The miracle that led to beatification of Knights of Columbus founder was the cure of a Dickson, Tennessee, boy

WASHINGTON. A divided Senate, in a 52-48 vote, confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as a justice for the Supreme Court the evening of Oct. 26 and