by Francis Rocca | Jun 16, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) For seven centuries, Eucharistic adoration—praying before an exposed consecrated Communion host—was one of the most popular forms of devotion in the Roman Catholic Church, the focus of beloved prayers and hymns and a distinctive symbol of Catholic...
by Francis Rocca | Jun 14, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican will use online education and other methods to help the world’s Catholic bishops and the heads of religious orders deal with clerical sex abuse of minors. Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University will host a Vatican-sponsored symposium on...
by Francis Rocca | Jun 13, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Catholics forced to participate in ordinations of bishops without the pope’s approval may be exempt from the usual penalty of automatic excommunication, the Vatican said on Friday (June 10). Bishops who consecrate other bishops without a papal...
by Francis Rocca | Jun 7, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A Vatican investigation of clerical sex abuse in Ireland has finished its “first phase,” the Vatican announced on Monday (June 6), but a published report of its findings may not appear until next year. The announcement came four days after Dublin...
by Francis Rocca | Jun 2, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Prosecutors in Rome on Wednesday (June 1) released $33 million (23 million euros) in Vatican funds that had been frozen last September pending an investigation for possible money laundering. The prosecutors had charged the Institute for Religious...
