via BBC News Roman Catholics in the US have delivered a petition asking Cardinal Roger Mahony to stay away from the conclave in Rome to choose a new pope. The former Archbishop of Los Angeles was stripped of his duties last month over allegations he protected priests accused of child sex abuse. Continuing scandals over […]

via BBC News A high-ranking Philadelphia Roman Catholic Church official has been found guilty of endangering the welfare of a child in a sex abuse case. Monsignor William Lynn was acquitted of two additional charges. Prosecutors alleged that Lynn, who supervised hundreds of priests, helped cover-up child sex abuse, often by transferring priests to new […]

via BBC News The leader of a group of US nuns the Vatican accuses of flouting Church teaching has rejected the claims. “I’ve no idea what they’re talking about,” Sister Simone Campbell, head of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, told the BBC. “Our role is to live the gospel with those who live on […]

via BBC News Roman Catholic priest from north-west Las Vegas has been sentenced to three years and one month in a US prison for using parish funds for gambling. Monsignor Kevin McAuliffe was convicted of taking $650,000 away from his congregation to support his gambling habit. Defence lawyers asked for probation so McAuliffe could keep […]

The Episcopal church is a church of many interesying practices.The word “Episcopal” is Greek in origin and comes from the Greek word for Bishop “episkopos.” An Episcopalian is one who has been confirmed and chooses to worship in the Episcopal Church which takes its heritage from the Church of England. What Does The AME Church […]

Martin Luther just might be turning over in his grave. Hundreds of  disillusioned Anglicans were preparing Sunday to defect from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church in time for Lent, Sky News reported. The US Episcopal Church registers protests from local vicariates.