The Catholic Church in Chile has been rocked by an email scandal surrounding an infamous paedophile. Leaked emails between the Archbishop of Santiago and his predecessor show that the men c...
Cuba's Catholic Church is calling on Cubans to reject a plan to legalise gay marriage. Under the country's proposed new constitution, marriage would be defined as between "two people" rather th...
The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne has assets worth £2.5bn, making it richer than the Vatican. The Cologne archdiocese has been under pressure to divulge more of its finances since Pope Franc...
The Catholic Church in Italy has received almost £1bn from income tax-returns. The money came in via a system that sends 0.8% of tax payments to charity or to religious institutions.According ...
An investigation has been launched by the Catholic Church after two missionary nuns became pregnant whilst working in Africa. One of the nuns, a mother superior, aged 34, only realised she was pregna...
Australia's Catholic Church has committed to joining the government's redress scheme for victims of child sexual abuse. It paves the way for compensation to be paid to people who were sexually a...
It has been reported the Catholic Church will discuss plans for priests to give blessings to gay couples. According to the Daily Mail the Bishop of Osnabruck, Franz-Josef Bode, said Pope Francis and ...
The Catholic Church in Ireland has reaffirmed its belief in the dignity and right to life of every human being from conception to natural death. This comes on the first anniversary of Ireland's abort...
The Catholic Church in Fiji has warned it is prepared to close all of its schools if the government continues to insist on the appointments of non-Catholics to But Archbishop Dr Peter Loy Chong has ...
Pope Francis has set up a special commission to look into the possibility of having female deacons in the Catholic Church. A group has been set up, after the pope gave his blessing in May.Speak...
The Catholic Church in the Philippines is not sure how to deal with vigilante drug killings taking place in the country, according to religious leaders. Catholic priests are scared and unsure a...
A retired deacon is calling for the Catholic Church to stop bringing priests from Africa to lead churches in the UK. Michael Phelan from Buckinghamshire says the Church, much like the NHS, is robbing...
The Catholic church in Sri Lanka has said the government should crack down on Islamists "as if on war footing" in the aftermath of the Easter bombings Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the archbish...
The Catholic Church in the UK wants the Government to speed up the process of housing 20,000 refugees from Syrian in Britain. Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, Patrick Lynch, the Church's lead bishop on...
Italian bishops have ordered religious gatherings in the south of the country not to worship the mafia houses they pass during Easter celebration processions.&n During Easter Week traditional process...
The Catholics in Poland have welcomed a new law which bans Sunday trading. Supermarkets and most other retailers closed for the first time on Sunday since liberal shopping laws were introduced in the...
A senior Catholic cardinal has said the Catholic Church will not change its view on same-sex marriage. The Vatican's highest-ranking expert on Church law, Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, ...
Catholic leaders in Malawi in central Africa say they are worried about continued food shortages in the country. The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) and a social development ar...
A Catholic family has been reunited with a Jewish Israeli man 70 years after they saved him during the Holocaust. Michael Hochberg, 77, was taken in by the Polish family at the age of four after he w...
Two Irish relatives killed in the Berkeley University balcony collapse have been mourned with Catholic funeral. Two two cousins were amongst the six Irish students killed in the incident on Tuesday.T...
