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Catholic church says it won’t make nearly $1m interest payment but calls fraud accusation ‘extreme stretch’The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans is planning to default on paying a nearly $1m interest payment on more than $41m in bonds it sold i…
News comes after Catholic diocese in Camden tried for years to block such proceedingsNew Jersey can have a grand jury examine allegations of clergy sexually abusing children, the state’s supreme court ruled on Monday, after a Catholic diocese that had …
Excavation crews begin sealing off site in Tuam, Co Galway, before full-scale dig starts on 14 JulyPreliminary work aimed at identifying the remains of nearly 800 infants is starting on the site in Tuam, Co Galway, as Ireland continues to wrestle with …
Pontiff addresses young people at baseball stadium on Saturday amid ‘No Kings’ protests across the countryPope Leo XIV, born in Dolton, Illinois, and a White Sox baseball fan, has been anointed by Chicagoans as the “South Side Pope”, appearing via vide…
Campaign pushes to change law that could lead to survivors living in UK being disqualified from means-tested benefitsSurvivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes are being “retraumatised” by the prospect of losing benefits in the UK if they accept comp…
During Sunday mass in St Peter’s Square, the pope asked that God ‘open borders, break down walls [and] dispel hatred’Pope Leo has criticised the emergence of nationalist political movements and their “exclusionary mindset”, without naming a specific co…
Census finds just 56.7% in world’s biggest Catholic country follow Roman church as evangelical numbers riseHome to the world’s largest Catholic population, Brazil has once again witnessed a decline in the faith’s following, according to new figures rel…
Catholic Charities had argued it should not be required to pay unemployment taxesUS supreme court sides with heterosexual woman in ‘reverse discrimination’ caseThe US supreme court has sided with a Catholic charity group in a case that tested whether t…
US state department says on website it may ‘actively review’ status of Americans who ‘serve as a foreign head of state’Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first US-born leader of the Roman Catholic church elevated him to the rare, legally thorny, position o…
A potential agreement with survivors is in the works, but some parties are unhappy with settlement amountThe Catholic archbishop of New Orleans made a rare in-person appearance in federal bankruptcy court on Friday, days after announcing a potential ag…