Source: CNN By Daniel Burke (CNN) A prominent cardinal resigned in disgrace. Grand jurors accused hundreds of Catholic clerics of secretly abusing children. A former Vatican ambassador urged the Pope himself to step down. It was enough for New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan to call it the Catholic Church’s”summer of hell.” The […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican secretary of state urged Iraqi Christians who have endured years of Islamic extremist persecution to forgive, reconcile and […]
Source: Associated Press By FRANCES D’EMILIO VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis offered a Christmas wish for fraternity among people of different nations, cultures, faiths, races or ideas, describing the […]
Source: CNN By Delia Gallagher Rome (CNN)Pope Francis has told those who abuse minors to hand themselves in to civil justice authorities and “prepare for divine justice,” in his strongest […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has an unusual dilemma on its hands after nearly all the nuns in a tiny French religious order […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has launched an investigation into a small Chilean religious order of nuns after some sisters denounced sexual abuse […]
By Reuters – Dec 06,2018 -JORDAN TIMES VATICAN CITY — The first visit by a Pope to the Arabian Peninsula will take place in February when Francis travels to Abu […]
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and it would be better for priests who […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has made more progress in its path to greater financial transparency by securing approval to join the European […]
Geneva, Switzerland, Nov 28, 2018 / 12:18 pm (CNA).- A Vatican representative to the United Nations called on the international community to ban killer robots – known as Lethal […]
Source: Swiss Info In protest against Pope Francis’s incendiary remarks equating abortion with the hiring of a contract killer, six prominent Swiss women have resigned from the Catholic church. They […]
Source: The Economist by ERASMUS It has other failings. Here, at least, it is sincere EVEN THE Holy See’s greatest defenders would acknowledge this much: this is not an easy time […]
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is going to Morocco in March in what is expected to be a heavy year of foreign travel for the 81-year-old […]
Source: Vanity Fair BY JOHN CORNWELL When he retired, the ultra-conservative Pope Benedict XVI was expected to disappear from view, clearing the way for his liberal successor, Francis, to clean house […]
Source: Associated Press By ARITZ PARRA MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government announced Tuesday it will use legal means to prevent the remains of Gen. Francisco Franco from being reburied under […]
Source: CNN By Bianca Britton and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN A demonstrator holds a poster of Emanuela Orlandi reading “Missing” during Pope Benedict XVI’s Regina Coeli noon prayer in St. Peter’s […]
Source: Religion News Service BY David Gibson ATICAN CITY (RNS) — A global summit of Catholic bishops on Saturday (Oct. 27) issued a powerful call for the inclusion of women […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic bishops are entering their final week of debate over hot-button issues facing young Catholics, including how the church should […]
Source: The Guardian Pope Francis will seriously consider making an unprecedented visit to North Korea, but some conditions would have to be met, a senior Vatican official has said. An invitation […]
Source: Reuters DONGLU VILLAGE, China (Reuters) – In 1996, a tiny village with a huge Gothic-style church in China’s Catholic heartland of northern Hebei province was the scene of a […]