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The head of the Catholic Church also urged adult men not to ‘take the easy road’

As readers know, I've been interested in the question of abortion and religious exemption claims (see this May 9 post), so when I saw this item by Rabbi Simon, I found it much worth passing along. Rabbi Simon had been a lawyer for 20 years before becoming a full-time rabbi,…

Pope Francis will have at least five meetings with indigenous people during a trip to Canada in July, making good on a promise to apologise in the country for the Roman Catholic Church's role in abusive residential schools.

Police Scotland officers worked with their Italian and Dutch counterparts to recover a book that was illicitly removed from the collection of the Catholic Church in Scotland.

A retired priest has been charged with indecent assault following a decade-long investigation into a residential school in Manitoba, Canadian police said on Friday.

POLICE have worked with their counterparts in Italy and the Netherlands to recover a centuries-old book which was illicitly taken from a collection…

Scottish police worked with Dutch and Italian officers on the return of the Book of Sermons.

Papal visits are typically filled with the joyful pageantry, excitement and emotion of a big event. But Pope Francis’ trip to Canada next month will likely have a rather dour feel. The pope will make the transatlantic trip in part to apologize in person for past abuses suffered by Indigenous…

The United States celebrates Father’s Day on the third Sunday of June. Many countries with a Catholic heritage, however, such as Portugal and Spain, have already honored fathers on March 19: the feast of St. Joseph, husband of Mary and patron saint of fathers.

Pope Francis has taken another step to reign in and regulate new religious groups in the Catholic Church

The Catholic Church’s official line on abortion, and even on any artificial birth control, is well known: Don’t do it.