Roman Catholic Church News

Lawyers for a man who wants to hold the Vatican accountable for the priest who molested him in the 1960s asked a federal judge Wednesday to allow them to question top cardinals.

The Michigan Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the Catholic Church in Michigan, has named longtime Vice President Paul Long of East Lansing its new president and CEO.

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's son has told an Italian news agency he was appealing to Pope Benedict XVI and to Italy to try to stop his mother's execution.

A Muslim stonemason who spent nearly four decades helping to restore an Roman Catholic cathedral in France has been immortalized as a winged gargoyle peering out from its facade - albeit with the inscription "God is great" at his clawed feet.

Pope Benedict XVI thanked the British on Wednesday for the "vast amount of work" they have put into his upcoming visit and said he hoped their efforts would pay off.

Standard-Speaker File Photo The former Ss. Peter and Paul Lithuanian R.C. Church at Diamond Avenue and Lincoln Street in Hazleton.

September 8, 2010. Pope video message to people of Britain: "I'm looking forward to my visit to UK". "I am very much looking forward to my visit to the United Kingdom in a week's time and I send heartfelt greetings to all the people of Great Britain", said the Pope.

Members and supporters of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests , from left, Kevin Waldrip, Lou Serrano, Mark Crawford, Kerri , of Bergen County Rape Crisis Center, and Stephen Marlowe, pose outside the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart before delivering a letter to the Archdiocese of Newark last month.

U.S. religious leaders joined on Tuesday to condemn an "anti-Muslim frenzy" in the United States, and the head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan warned that a Florida church's plan for a Koran-burning could endanger American troops abroad.

Pope Benedict XVI leaves at the end of the first Vesper at Rome's St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica on June 28, 2010.

A Florida church is rebuffing warnings by the U.S. military's top official in Afghanistan to cancel a scheduled Sept.

A Catholic College seemingly took revenge on a faculty member by barring him from teaching and making statements that he had downloaded child pornography--even though the images on a shared computer were not of children, and even though another individual told the administration that he, and not the accused, had downloaded the material.

September 7, 2010. Researchers will soon be confronted with a somewhat different Vatican Library after three years of renovations.

September 7, 2010. The Vatican is considering launching a sports initiative to coincide with World Youth Day in Madrid next year. “I work with Madrid and the host country, and the bishops of Spain to make sport, get together before the wyd in valencia or another cities outside of Madrid. We hope that sport could be a way to help different countries to meet.”

The promoter in the case of Pope John Paul II's sainthood says doctors are still analyzing a supposed miracle attributed to him in which a French nun was allegedly cured from Parkinson's disease by praying to the late pope.

Parishioner Sean Glennon, shown planting flowers at Mary Star of the Sea Chapel, lamented not having time to prepare.

Heavy tourist traffic through the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, is endangering the world-renowned frescoes decorating its walls.

Cardinal Keith O'Brien claims BBC is biased against 'Catholicism in particular'. Cardinal Keith O'Brien Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, has accused the BBC of resorting to an institutional bias against "Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular". In an interview with the Sunday Times , the ...

Peter Smith to tell campaigners to show respect to Catholics celebrating Pope Benedict XVI's visit to London Protesters have planned a march on 19 September in London to coincide with the pope's visit to the capital.

The state visit of Pope Benedict to Britain will include an audience with the Queen and Prime Minister David Cameron.