When Sister Cecilia Gaudette, a 106 year-old American nun living in Rome, announced on CBS and the BBC that she’s voting for Barack Obama for president, she never expected the deluge of media attention it brought her. That’s because...

Certain Catholic Church leaders are upset at publishing house Simon & Schuster over the book 101 Places To Have Sex Before You Die because it advocates having sex in a Church confessional. Suggests the book: “The only sex the...

The Jesuit order of Catholic priests have named a new leader, Spaniard Fr. Adolfo Nicolas. His name calls to mind a Chrismalocaust: Father Nicolas was ordained in Tokyo in 1967 and spent most of his career in the Far...

Ceferino Namuncura, a Mapuche Indian, was beatified in a ceremony attended by tens of thousands in Southern Argentina, an event many see as his initial step toward becoming the first-ever indigenous Argentine saint. He is credited with curing a...

Strong reader response to the image that ran with today’s “Watchando” has led us to throw you a bone and share how we came up with it. Benedict Says… is a comic generator that lets you put (dirty) words...

American prosecutors are investigating whether the head honcho of the Catholic Church in Mexico arranged for a priest to go on the lam in Los Angeles, knowing he had raped a former altar boy back home. They allege that...

• Archdiocesan councils meet in Colorado over a local priest caught on an early morning naked jog. These guys’ll do anything to get the boys’ attention. [Denver Post] • Plácido Domingo will be the first opera singer to cameo...

Piety and plastic collide, as a new IRS regulation demanding proof of church donations under $250 has houses of worship considering the addition of special ATMs to their grounds. (Nothing gets people to embrace out-of-place technology like the opportunity...

Rather than face decades-old sexual abuse allegations in court today, the Los Angeles branch of the Roman Catholic Church apologized yesterday to 508 victims it has agreed to pay a record-shattering $660 million group settlement. As leader of the...

The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant People (a council responsible for making Catholics who move around the world stay Catholic) has released a 36-page document outlining the “10 Commandments” of safe driving. Some highlights include: • “Thou...

The latest study from D.C.-based think tank Pew Hispanic Center unleashes the following conclusion on an unsuspecting America: Latino Catholics favor a “distinctively ethnic” experience at Mass, which apparently means attending it with other Hispanics and carrying on in...

Brazilian supermodel and thinspiration poster girl Gisele Bundchen tongue-lashed the Pope recently for condemning condom use and abortion while he visited her motherland a month ago. Staying true to model-speak, she said abstinence (a.k.a., Catholic contraception) is, like, totally...

Reports from the #1 news source that’s holier than thou reveal an insidious plot sprung on Pope Benedict XVI during His Holiness’ recent meetings with Mexican President Felipe Calderón. The Catholic News Service chose to lowlight the political blah-blah-blah...

Mexico City voted April 24 of this year to legalize first trimester abortions in a controversial move for the capital of the historically, if not officially, Catholic country. The Catholic Church continues to urge Mexican doctors not to give...

The New York Times reports that Hispanic immigrants assimilate in this country not only by watching American Idol and eating Combos, but also by going to less church. It's not that they don't believe in God, it's that they...

Good news: The Catholic Church has decided that limbo, the special place in hell just for unbaptized babies, doesn’t exist! Apparently it was never part of church doctrine, but was taught to Catholics well into the 20th century. Oops....