John Allen of the Boston Globe usually sits down at the end of the year to write something about the biggest uncovered Catholic stories from the past 12 months. But the longtime Vatican correspondent says he didn’t need to this year, thanks to a news media sensation focused on Pope Francis.
The Vatican reprimanded the largest group of Catholic nuns in the United States two weeks ago for promoting “radical feminist themes.” The reprimand was issued after a two-year investigation. The church has appointed an archbishop to oversee reform of the group, but many Catholics have come out in support of the American nun group.
Former US Ambassador Ryan Crocker, the man who says he’s been called “a crisis junkie” shares some of his personal thoughts with anchor Marco Werman on why American diplomats need to serve in conflict zones.
The soap opera continues. The FBI investigation into an alleged affair between General David Petraeus and biographer Paula Broadwell, which also implicated General John Allen and a Tampa-based fundraiser named Jill Kelley, has become very public knowledge. Petraeus resigned on Friday, hoping to get in front of the scandal before it thrust him any further into the spotlight. But Congress had other […]