Three American men who were sexually abused in their youth in the Louisville, Kentucky area have succeeded in naming the Vatican as the sole defendant and have named the Pope, as the only living witness to the 1962 church policy that hid pedophile priests for decades.  Pope Ratzinger spent 24 years heading the church department [...]

An Italian museum has defied orders from the Pope to remove a modern sculpture portraying a green frog holding a beer mug and an egg, crucified on a cross.  The board of directors at the Museion Museum in Bolzano, Italy, has decided that the piece is art and not blasphemy as the Vatican demands.
The wooden [...]

In a speech at the Catholic University of America, Pope Benedict warned U.S. educators that they should never contradict church teachings in any course at their school. “No child should be denied his or her right to an education in faith, which in turn nurtures the soul of a nation,” Benedict said.
In other words, [...]

Pope Benedict XVI stepped onto U.S. soil for the first time since he became pope today, just hours after saying how disgusted he is at the priest sex abuse scandal that’s rocked American Catholicism. So far, U.S. Catholic churches have paid out nearly $2 billion in settlements for priests who couldn’t keep their frocks [...]