Dec 12th, 2008 · Two new movies — Doubt and The Reader — deal with sex with minors. Doubt takes place during a time of change for the Roman Catholic church in the 1960s. The Reader is about two generations of Germans, those who lived through World War II and those who learned about it as history.
Aug 14th, 2008 · The Luke Wilson vehicle is a parable of averted martyrdom that turns on a Roman Catholic notion of the miraculous — though its fundamental message is closer to a Hallmark card than to the New Testament.
Apr 16th, 2008 · A look at modern Roman Catholic pontiffs who have taken the papacy global to minister to the Catholic flock and spread their vision of social justice.
Apr 14th, 2008 · Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States comes at a time when Roman Catholic seminary enrollment in the United States is down 60 percent since 1968. Two seminarians talk with Michele Norris about the shrinking pool of priests and other issues facing the church.
Apr 14th, 2008 · Before he became pope, Benedict had earned a reputation as a strict policeman of Roman Catholic doctrine. But many theologians feel he has softened during the past three years.
Mar 13th, 2008 · Roman Catholic priest and cosmologist Michael Heller won this year's Templeton Prize. "Science without religion is not only meaningless, it's lame," he says.
Jul 15th, 2007 · The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $660 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits from people who claim they were abused by Roman Catholic clergy. The settlement is the largest in the church's sexual abuse scandal.
May 8th, 2007 · Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders from opposite sides of the political spectrum in Northern Ireland have been sworn in as members of a new power-sharing government, in a move aimed at putting an end to violence.