Does Catholicism require opposition to animal cruelty, including industrial farming? For two years I taught social studies at an inner-city high school; for six years I ran a Catholic Worker ...

The Catholic Church celebrates the feast day ... Father Bonaventure Chapman notes that the first ascription of animal symbols to the four evangelists seems to come from St. Ireneaus in his ...

Last month, the Bergen County Animal Shelter enlisted a rosary-sporting Roman Catholic priest in a ceremony for the furry sinners, according to a federal lawsuit, filed by the American Atheists in ...

St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church held a blessing for animals Sunday to honor St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the environment. “We held the ceremony today in hopes of ...

But we aren't there yet. Catholic concern for nonhuman animals, in our technocratic times, still has a long way to go.

GERMANY: The German animal rights organisation Peta "crucified ... calling it a "abuse of religious symbols" and an insult to Christians during Holy Week. But Jürgen Faulmann, a spokesman ...

St. Joseph Catholic Church and at Holy Cross Church. At Holy Cross Church in Deerfield on Saturday, Deacon Kevin Garvey offered a narrative and the pet blessing. “The love of animals is what we ...