Roman Catholic Church News

Rev. William Lori will be installed as the 16th archbishop of Baltimore, the nation's first diocese, at a Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen on Wednesday afternoon.

A small Catholic college in Ohio said Tuesday it was dropping health insurance coverage for students rather than comply with a federal mandate that the plan provide free birth control.

The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from 2009 revelations that its founder was a pedophile who fathered three children, was hit Tuesday by another scandal after its most well-known priest - a prominent author, lecturer and television personality - admitted he had fathered a child several years ago.

Italian fashion firm Benetton has agreed to make a donation to a Catholic charity to end a legal dispute with the Vatican over an advertisement that showed Pope Benedict kissing an imam on the lips, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

May 15, 2012. The last day of his visit to Milan, Benedict XVI will have lunch with families from the World Meeting.

Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel has criticised the Catholic Church, saying it is "not an institution for respectable people". Mrs Mantel, who lives in Budleigh Salterton, East Devon, was raised a Roman Catholic but spoke out against the church in an interview with a Sunday newspaper.

Iraq war veteran Leo Dunson is using rap music to examine the disappointment he feels since returning to civilian life.

A Roman Catholic cardinal and his top aides lied to their lawyer about shredding a key piece of evidence in the Philadelphia clergy-abuse scandal, the lawyer testified Monday.

BOSTON - The Vatican has rejected an appeal by parishioners who've occupied a Scituate church in protest since the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston closed it eight years ago.

Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of one of its employees.

Greek party leaders are to resume power-sharing talks Monday as negotiations to create a government drag into a second week, raising the specter of fresh elections that could threaten the crisis-stricken country's... Marathon efforts to break Greece's post-electoral paralysis are lurching into a ninth day amid the country's worst crisis in decades, ... (more)

In this May 11, 2012 file photo, people stand in the lobby of JPMorgan Chase headquarters in New York.

An Indiana diocese is denying that it discriminated against a parochial school teacher who claims she was fired for violating Roman Catholic doctrine by using in vitro fertilization to try to get pregnant.

Edward Kennedy will be giving a spring commencement speech at a Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts after all.

Pope Benedict XVI has moved a Bayonne nun one step closer to sainthood by elevating Sr.

'It's hard to believe that these stories were not investigated for fear of upsetting Muslims; very much easier to believe that one motive for ignoring them was fear of giving comfort to the far right.' Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images I have been brooding on two cover-ups of the sexual abuse of children that have been uncovered this ... (more)

On Thursday , Benedict ordered Hildegard, who died in 1179, to be inscribed "in the catalogue of saints," thus extending her cult "to the universal church." Despite having been considered a saint for centuries, the visionary abbess's sainthood had never been officially recognized.

It's been nearly a month since Bishop Richard Lennon announced he would reopen 12 closed churches in the diocese, but so far no shuttered sanctuaries have been resurrected.

Out of order the Legion of Christ leader, Marcial Maciel, whose order is under scrutiny over sex claims, with the late Pope John Paul II.

A community has joined together to mourn the loss of five children who were killed in a house fire as they slept in their beds.