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BEIJING (AP) — A Catholic monk has confessed to stabbing to death a priest and a nun whose bodies were found at the hospice in northern China where they worked, state media said Friday.Priest Zhang Shulai and nun Wei Yanhui were both members of China's unauthorized church, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. A report by AsiaNews, a missionary news agency close to the Vatican, said their bodies were found in a pool of blood after they failed to show up for morning Mass on Tuesday.Monk Zhang Wenping, 43, was arrested Thursday in Hohhot, capital of the Inner Mongolia region, the Xinhua report said, citing a police spokesman in Wuhai city where the hospice is located.Zhang Wenping told police that he had personal grudges against the priest and nun, Xinhua reported. It did not give details.Zhang Wenping, like the victims, was also a member of the unauthorized church, said Zhang Pengyao, a local priest in the official church, who confirmed the arrest.Phones in the administration depart...
A Roman Catholic nun testified Thursday that she and two relatives were sexually abused by a priest described by a church leader as "one of the sickest people I ever...
Authorities have re-opened a 2007 fondling complaint against a priest who taught at a suburban Philadelphia high school and is now the Roman Catholic bishop of West ...
Pressure is on to change the Roman Catholic Church in America, but it's not coming from the usual liberal suspects. A new breed of theological conservatives has take...
A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of walking into a Catholic church and shooting his father-in-law in the back of the head during Mass.Charles Richard...
A Catholic bishop in Northern California whose diocese has been embroiled in priest sex abuse cases recently resigned Thursday from his post after 11 years.The Vatic...
DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's senior Roman Catholic, Cardinal Sean Brady, said Monday he would not resign despite admitting he helped the church collect evidence against a...
Faced with the threat of a criminal indictment, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester has avoided charges by allowing state oversight and admitting it failed to p...
Former Bishop Walter F. Sullivan, a progressive leader in the U.S. Roman Catholic church and the longest-serving head of the Richmond diocese, died Tuesday. He was 8...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Two Belgian bishops openly questioned mandatory celibacy for Roman Catholic priests, rekindling a debate Monday within the scandal-hit church.The bis...
A Colombian court has ordered a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church to pay $220,000 in restitution to two youths who were sexually abused by one of its priests in 2...
Got a hankering to repent? There will soon be an "app" for that.A Roman Catholic prelate from Wisconsin will become the first priest to log on to a soon-to-debut sma...
Dozens of parishioners have gathered outside a Roman Catholic church in Dominica to support a parish priest who has been accused of molesting a girl nearly two decad...
Pope Francis should pressure President Nicolas Maduro to focus on the promotion of democracy and peaceful coexistence to help ease tensions sparked by the South Amer...
China's government-backed Catholic church ordained a bishop who did not have the pope's approval Saturday, despite objections from the Vatican and comments by a key ...
China's government-backed Catholic church was ordaining a bishop who did not have the pope's approval Saturday, despite objections from the Vatican and comments by a...
BAD STAFFELSTEIN, Germany (AP) — A prominent archbishop called Thursday for justice for sexual abuse victims in Germany's Roman Catholic Church , saying they need to...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's Roman Catholic leadership hopes Pope Benedict XVI can visit in 2012, a bishop said Thursday, in what would be the first papal trip to Cuba since...
ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish man was charged Friday with murder in the stabbing death of a Roman Catholic bishop, the Vatican's apostolic vicar in Anatolia, for whom he...
ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish man was charged Friday with murder in the stabbing death of a Roman Catholic bishop, the Vatican's apostolic vicar in Anatolia, for whom he...
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