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Is Pope Francis is a heretic? No, but he does raise questions

(RNS) Is Pope Francis endorsing heresy? It might look that way from headlines that made it seem as though the pontiff had said that everyone – even atheists! – were destined for heaven. What he actually said was boilerplate Catholic doctrine.
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Pope Francis: God redeemed everyone, ‘not just Catholics’

(RNS) In remarks that may prompt a theological debate about the nature of salvation, Pope Francis declared that God “has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone!”
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Christian leaders seek to overcome polarization

WASHINGTON (RNS) “Faith leaders have a remarkable opportunity to shift the conversation, but it’s very challenging, particularly in a larger society that wants to understand everything as a battle,” said Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
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Harold Camping may be facing doomsday, but not the one he intended

(RNS) Two years after radio evangelist Harold Camping erroneously predicted the end of the world, his California-based Family Radio has sold its prominent stations and let go of veteran staffers.
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Survivors of Magdalene laundries still waiting for an apology

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (RNS) Teresa Bell was one of thousands of young girls who were sent to the Magdalene workhouses run by Roman Catholic nuns when she got pregnant at age 16. She worked long hours washing clothes with no pay and little rest; after giving birth, her daughter was put in an orphanage.
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Abuse watchdogs say bishops’ ‘failings’ hurt their credibility

(RNS) Even as an annual review this week gave Catholic bishops high marks on sex abuse prevention policies, officials with the church’s oversight agencies expressed serious concerns about “recent high-profile failings” in several dioceses.
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Scott Carroll, ordained as priest early because of health, dies at age 46

The Rev. Scott R. Carroll, a Toledo diocesan seminarian who was ordained as a priest early because of failing health, died today (Friday, May 10) of cancer. He was 46.
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Toledo bishop makes 22 pastoral appointments

Bishop Leonard Blair of the Toledo Catholic Diocese has made 22 pastoral appointments throughout the 19-county diocese.
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British church attendance stabilizes after years of decline

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The number of people attending Sunday services at Britain’s Anglican churches is continuing to drop, but church officials say there are signs that the decline is stabilizing.
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Pope tells nuns to be spiritual mothers, not ‘spinsters’

VATICAN CITY (RNS) With one of the more colorful unscripted expressions that have become a hallmark of his young pontificate, Pope Francis reminded nuns that they should be “fertile” spiritual mothers, not “‘spinsters.”
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Vatican cardinal says he was sidelined in crackdown of U.S. nuns

VATICAN CITY (RNS) When the Vatican’s doctrinal office informed the office that oversees religious orders about a probe of American nuns, the cardinal who heads the office was told the investigation was already completed.
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