by Josef Kuhn | Nov 4, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) As Congress prepares for a high-stakes battle over federal spending, religious leaders are lobbying senators to preserve foreign aid as a moral obligation. “We’re talking about lives—great numbers of lives that are saved with minimal input on our...
by Francis Rocca | Nov 4, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Catholic parents have a “right and duty” to report the sexual abuse of minors, in spite of any “ill-informed and misplaced considerations of loyalty” to their church, the Vatican’s chief sex abuse investigator said. Monsignor Charles J. Scicluna...
by Francis Rocca | Nov 4, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) After months of tense relations over the clergy sex abuse scandal, the Irish government announced Thursday (Nov. 3) that it will close its embassy to the Vatican. “The government believes that Ireland’s interests with the Holy See can be...
by Lauren Markoe | Nov 3, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Catholic and other Christian health care providers got their day in Congress Wednesday (Nov. 2) at a hearing Republicans called to denounce an Obama administration rule that requires insurers to cover contraception. The rule, part of the health care...
by Al Webb | Nov 3, 2011 | News
LONDON (RNS) The British government said Wednesday (Nov. 2) that same-sex couples will be allowed for the first time to use churches to seal their civil partnership vows, starting in December. But the directive added that no religious group will be forced to conduct...
by Josef Kuhn | Nov 3, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Responding to fresh controversy over Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith, a group of Catholic elder statesmen on Wednesday (Nov. 2) called for more civility in politics, saying Catholics have been subjected to similar scrutiny. Speaking as “Catholic citizens...
