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Vatican City, Aug 14, 2017 / 07:20 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The bishops of Australia have indicated that they will resist the Royal Commission's proposal that priests be legally obligated to disclose details of sexual abuse revealed in the confessional, facing criminal charges if they don't.“Confession in the Catholic Church is a spiritual encounter with God through the priest,” Archbishop Denis J Hart of Melbourne said in an Aug. 14 statement.President of the Australian Bishops Conference, Hart said confession “is a fundamental part of the freedom of religion, and it is recognized in the Law of Australia and many other countries.”“It must remain so here in Australia,” he said, but stressed that “outside of this, all offenses against children must be reported to the authorities, and we are absolutely committed to doing so.”The statement came the same day Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual ...
IMAGE: CNSBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The archbishop officially promotingBlessed Oscar Romero's cause for sainthood said he hopes the process willconclude within a year and Catholics around the world will honor St. OscarRomero, martyr."Keeping alive the memory of Romero is a noble task,and my great hope is that Pope Francis will soon canonize him a saint," ItalianArchbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator of the Salvadoran archbishop'scause, said in a homily Aug. 12 in London.In an interview with Vatican Radio's English program,Archbishop Paglia was more specific: "We could hope that in the next yearperhaps it is possible" that the Congregation for Saints' Causes will havecompleted its review of an alleged miracle attributed to Blessed Romero'sintervention and present its findings to the pope. Recognition of the miraclewould clear the way for canonization.Archbishop Paglia, in addition to promoting Blessed Romero'ssainthood cause, is president of the Pontifical Academy for...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The son and grandson of golf professionals, Justin Thomas couldn't think of a better major to win than the PGA Championship....
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. case against a British cybersecurity researcher accused of creating a malware program (all times local):...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Relatives dug through the mud in search of their loved ones and a morgue overflowed with bodies Monday after heavy rains and flooding early in the day killed at least 200 people in Sierra Leone's capital....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The CEO of the nation's third largest pharmaceutical company resigned from a manufacturing council that advises President Donald Trump days after racially tinged clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, citing "a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on President Donald Trump and the weekend's violence and death in Charlottesville, Virginia (all times local):...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- An Ohio man accused of ramming his car into a crowd of protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia will remain in jail - at least until he has an attorney....
The Holy Father on Saturday appointed His Excellency Monsignor Paul Tschang In-Nam, Archbishop of Amanzia, Apostolic Nuncio in Thailand and Cambodia and Apostolic Delegate in Myanmar and Laos, the Apostolic Nuncio to Myanmar. This comes into effect the announcement made on May 4, after Pope Francis met with the Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, to establish formal diplomatic relations, since Mynmar had an Apostolic Delegate so far.His Excellency Archbishop Paul Tschang In-Nam was born on October 30th, 1949 in Seoul, South Korea, and was ordained to the priesthood on December 17, 1976 for the Diocese of Cheongju, South Korea.He concluded ecclesiastical studies obtaining a Doctorate in Theology, and entered Diplomatic Services of the Holy See on May 1st 1985. From 1985-2002, he served as a Diplomat of the Holy See, in the capacity of Secretary and Counsellor in the Apostolic Nunciatures of El Salvador, Ethiopia, Syria, France, Greece, and Belgium.Aft...
