As bishop of Pittsburgh, Donald Wuerl enabled pedophile priests to put children in jeopardy.
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Heavenly cookies await at St. Peter’s Italian Bazaar
For 93 years, church parishioners have been baking and selling the soft, anise-flavored treats.
Pope strips U.S. cardinal of title after sexual abuse claims
Prelate Theodore McCarrick offered his resignation from the College of Cardinals after a spate of allegations that he for years abused boys and had sexual misconduct with adult seminarians.
Kathleen Parker: Never mind the conspiracy theories – Catholics are rocking the courthouse
The Catholic jurists on the Supreme Court are there because their education and experience equip them to be there.
Church of England seeks revival in newer Christian congregations
The outreach effort leaders are launching signals an ‘end of the snobbishness’ the church has confined itself to, says a former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II.
Maine Voices: Dealing with immigration, America must overcome its loss of nerve
The U.S. has never been a perfect nation, but we can aspire to a vision more sublime than money, power and arrogance.
Dana Milbank: Supreme Court decision upholding travel ban validates religious discrimination
Somehow Justice Roberts and four colleagues found Trump wasn’t seeking to bar Muslims despite the president’s obvious actions otherwise.
Maine Voices: Punishment shouldn’t be used to help people fight hunger, find jobs
A Legislature that puts up barriers making it harder for people to access food is immoral and unjust.
Maine church organization expresses its outrage over separation of families at the border
The Maine Council of Churches objects to the Bible being cited by the Trump administration to justify its policy.
Here’s how liberals, conservatives picture God
Liberals imagine someone ‘more feminine, younger and more loving,’ while conservatives have a ‘powerful’ white guy in mind, researchers say.