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The Catholic Church’s formal, institutional response to Charlie Kirk’s comments has been limited and uneven: the Vatican reportedly offered prayer and a call for dialogue, while local religious commun...
The Catholic Church does not treat a civil divorce as freedom to remarry; to wed sacramentally again a person normally must obtain a Church declaration of nullity (commonly called an annulment) from a...
The Bible contains a handful of passages that many readers and religious traditions have long understood as prohibiting same‑sex sexual activity—most often Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 in the Hebrew Bibl...
The Shroud of Turin is a 4.4‑m linen cloth bearing a faint front‑and‑back image of a scourged, crucified man that has been venerated as Jesus’s burial shroud but remains scientifically and historicall...
To petition a diocesan tribunal that you are free to marry after a divorce and the death of a former spouse, dioceses routinely require a formal petition plus supporting civil and sacramental document...
The Catholic Church responded to Martin Luther’s re-ordering and doubts about certain books by definitively reaffirming the full traditional canon — including the seven deuterocanonical books — at the...
Washington’s 2025 effort to make clergy mandatory reporters sparked a national legal fight over whether priests can be forced to disclose child abuse revealed in confession; federal judges and settlem...