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This story landed like a like grenade yesterday, and the alarm over it is only growing. If you haven’t heard about it by now, take a deep breath and read on: A proposed bill that would take power from Catholic priests and bishops and turn it over to parishioners has sparked outrage among church leaders,…

The Archdiocese of New York is kicking off Lent with a big push for an oft-neglected sacrament, reconciliation. Many churches offered it round-the-clock this weekend. And the New York Times dropped in to see what was going on: Around midnight Friday, the Rev. Gilbert Luis R. Centina III appeared outside his church in East Harlem,…

Continuing his custom, Pope Benedict plans to baptize a number of new Catholics at the Easter Vigil this year — and one of them will be a woman from California. CNS reports: This year, parishioners at St. Joseph Church in Modesto, Calif., are more excited than usual about Easter. That’s because 40 of them, along…

When the new archbishop for New York was announced last week, it continued the unbroken tradition: an Irish leader for a cathedral named for an Irish saint. Could that one day change? This morning’s Times takes a look: Latinos account for at least half of the Roman Catholics in New York. Their neighborhood churches are…
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