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Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry. / Credit: CatholicChicago/YouTubeDenver Newsroom, May 12, 2023 / 12:25 pm (CNA).Longtime Black Catholic leader Bishop Joseph N. Perry, an auxiliary bishop of Chicago, is the new chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).Perry, 75, succeeds Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville, Kentucky, who served two terms as chairman. Fabre, who became archbishop of Louisville in March 2022, requested that a new chairman be named, the USCCB said in a May 10 announcement.Perry will be the third chairman of...

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Null / Credit: CathopicACI Prensa Staff, May 10, 2023 / 16:35 pm (CNA).An investigation by the Spanish newspaper El Pais has revealed that the Spanish Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno, who died in 2009, sexually abused as many as 85 boys and adolescents in the 1970s and 1980s and recorded the incidents in a secret diary as "blunders," and that the Jesuits covered it up.A nephew of Pedrajas found the diary and contacted the Society of Jesus in Bolivia to file a complaint, and then went to the Spanish prosecutor's office, which dismissed the case for having passed the statute of l...

Lybicheva Nina, 72, along with her grandchildren receives food items during a distribution to about 3,000 people by the local branch of Caritas Internationalis, a Catholic charity organization, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 27, 2022. / Credit: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty ImagesRome Newsroom, May 10, 2023 / 16:20 pm (CNA).Pope Francis on Thursday will meet with delegates of the Vatican's main charitable organization six months after he dismissed its top leaders in what the group's ousted general secretary now calls a "brutal power grab."Members of the General Assembly of Caritas Int...

Plenary of the Spanish Episcopal Conference. / Credit: CEEACI Prensa Staff, May 11, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).The Spanish Bishops' Conference (CEE) criticized the May 9 ruling by the country's constitutional court (TC) that upheld abortion as a right, thus, it said, making the human person developing in the womb "a true undocumented person."The executive commission of the CEE said in a statement that it deplores that the TC affirmed "that there are human beings who do not have rights" by supporting "an ideological, unscientific law that promotes inequality."The prelat...