The pictures are disturbing, and so is the story surrounding them, from Italy: Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Roma girls were laid out on…

It’s been a while since we heard any news about the “Catholic town” of Ave Maria in Florida. It’s been up and running for a little over a year now — and all indications are, it’s doing well, despite some setbacks and some less-than-enthusiastic press. This story comes from Naples News: Ambition has met reality…

Another group of women claims to now be validly ordained as priests — this time, in one of the most storied centers of American Catholicism, Boston. From the Globe: A group advocating for the ordination of women this afternoon held a ceremony in a packed Protestant church in Boston at which it declared three women…

Those four words were spoken by Pope Benedict Saturday, in a dramatic and widely anticipated gesture that may help heal some deep wounds in the Australian church. The AP has the story right here: Pope Benedict XVI apologized Saturday to victims of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Australia, describing their acts as…

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