Category: Catholic

Washington After Roe: Day Two

WASHINGTON—The Epoch Times is continuing its ongoing coverage of protests and other reactions to Roe v. Wade in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital. This story will be updated throughout the day. Faithful Bear Witness to a New Dawn Two days after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, no protesters could be seen…


Washington After Roe Day 2: Faithful Bear Witness to a New Dawn

WASHINGTON—Two days after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, no protesters could be seen outside Washington’s Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Situated next to the campus of The Catholic University of America (CUA), the shrine is the largest Catholic church in North America. Yet, after the Department of Homeland…


Former Proud Boy Leader Charged With Seditious Conspiracy; 50 Killed in Catholic Church: Officials | NTD Evening News

The former leader of the Proud Boys was charged on June 6 with seditious conspiracy for allegedly coordinating an attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2020. At least 50 people, including many children, were killed in a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria, according to reports and officials. …


Catholic Priest Stabbed Multiple Times, Nun Injured in Knife Attack at French Church

A Catholic priest was stabbed multiple times on Sunday morning in a church in Nice, France, while a nun was also injured during the knife attack, officials have said. The attack came as France began voting in a presidential run-off election race between incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen. French politician Eric Ciotti,…


New Jersey Catholic Diocese Agrees to $87.5M Proposed Settlement in Sexual Abuse Claims

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $87.5 million in a proposed settlement with 300 survivors who accused members of the clergy of child sex abuse. The settlement was negotiated amid an ongoing bankruptcy case after the Diocese of Camden filed for bankruptcy in October 2020. The diocese had accumulated mounting debt in…


New Jersey Catholic Diocese Agrees to $87.5 Million Proposed Settlement in Sexual Abuse Claims

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $87.5 million in a proposed settlement with 300 survivors who accused members of the clergy of child sex abuse. The settlement was negotiated amid an ongoing bankruptcy case after the Diocese of Camden filed for bankruptcy in October 2020. The diocese had accumulated mounting debt in…


Former Philadelphia Catholic Priest, 84, Sentenced for Lying to FBI in Sex Abuse Case

A former Catholic priest has been sentenced to five years of probation with two years of home confinement and location monitoring, for lying to investigators about not knowing a former parishioner and victim of sexual abuse. Robert Brennan, 84, of Perryville, Maryland, was a priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1993 to 2004. He…


Divide Grows Amid Catholic Groups Over Aid to Illegal Aliens

A Catholic organization questioning another Catholic organization’s involvement with moving COVID-sick immigrants into the U.S. filed a lawsuit earlier this month in Texas federal court. CatholicVote and conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed the federal lawsuit based on two denied Freedom of Information Act requests made to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…


Defend Canada’s Freedom of Speech, Association, and Religion: Conservative MP

Conservative MP Garnett Genuis says Canada is under attack by populists bent on silencing views contrary to theirs, and calls on Parliament to resist the pressure and defend the country’s freedom of speech, association, and religion protected in the Charter before it’s too late. “I have worked extensively on international human rights issues, but nowadays,…


Divine Art and the Heritage of Beauty to be Discussed in Chicago Conference

The late philosopher and writer Sir Roger Scruton famously said: “I want to persuade you that beauty matters; that it is not just a subjective thing, but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.” The award-winning classically-trained painter Kathleen Carr founded the Chicago-based non-profit…