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He stands by those to whom he’s loyal but, when faced with new evidence, is also willing to change his mind.

The prefect for the Congregation for Bishops expresses his firm disagreement with the former nuncio's testimonies, calling his position "incomprehensible and extremely troubling" and offers to help him "return to communion" with the Holy Father.

While it points backward to St. John Paul and Benedict XVI and their senior officials, it also raises questions about those presently in office.

No matter what their archbishop doesn't say, pastors are still required by canon law not to admit to holy Communion those who 'obstinately persevere in manifest grave sin.'

They don't have the faith to tear it apart. They can't tear apart what they don't have. That doesn't mean that they can't sow confusion. But they can't touch the Faith.

The church is not holy because saints preside over it. God's grace makes it holy.

"In spite of everything the newspapers say," says the German theologian (and baroness) Nina-Sophie Heereman, "the future of the [Latin-rite] Church belongs to the US!"

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Washington's Cardinal Donald Wuerl on Friday, while asking the cardinal to continue leading the Archdiocese of Washington on an interim basis until a permanent successor is appointed.

She was condemned after drinking water from a supply used by Muslims.

In Central African Republic, Islamist rebels attacked a group of civilians in the central town of Bria earlier this month.

Seventeen Christians, including four children and one grandmother, were shot dead last week by Fulani radicals who raided their homes in Jos, Nigeria.

In Rosarito, the priest was found inside a vehicle, which was impacted against a slope of land, while the body showed several injuries caused by firearms.

Cardinal O'Malley expands sex abuse investigation to include all Boston seminaries.

A hilarious send-up of academic twaddle makes a serious point.

Unfortunately there are many instances in which people shuffle off this mortal coil in a small, dimly lit hospital room, with no company at all. This increasingly common situation has inspired a new hospital program.

Talk about going against the flow: Thousands of Americans choose to join the Catholic Church each year.

In the case of romantic relationships, choose someone you admire, not just someone you are attracted to. Choose someone whose qualities inspire you to the degree that the possibility of becoming more like them doesn't bother you.

They say it takes two to tango — and it also takes two to practice natural family planning, or NFP.