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At trial, Vatican auditor says he was shocked by misuse of funds

The Vatican auditor general said he was surprised by the lack of ethical standards demonstrated by officials considering in-vestment opportunities, including a failed London property development deal. During the Vatican trial of 10 defendants accused of various charges related to financial malfeasance, Alessandro Cassinis Righini, auditor general of the Holy See and Vatican City State, […]

New poll finds 4 in 10 non-Catholic Latinos were once Catholic and left

A new NBC News/Telemundo poll focusing on the Latino electorate found that 41% of Latinos who do not currently claim Catholicism as their religion said they had previously been Catholic. Jonathan Calvillo, an assistant professor of Latinx studies at Emory’s Candler School of Theology, said the flip side of that statistic is just as important: […]

Knights of Malta Consider Quitting Church

Knights across the world are considering leaving the Catholic Church because of Pope Francis’ reforms, the former grand chancellor of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta revealed. In a confidential letter obtained by Church Militant, Albrecht von Boeselager lamented that many confreres had expressed to him “their great dis-appointment in the Holy Father – they […]

Vatican cardinal cancels trip amid backlash over synodal way remarks

A Vatican cardinal cancelled a weekend visit to Germany after reportedly receiving threats re-lated to his recent remarks about the country’s “synodal way.” Cardinal Kurt Koch was due to celebrate Mass and give a lecture on Oct. 2 in the southern German city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. He was also expected to celebrate Mass in the […]

Synodal way has no power “to compel the bishops …to adopt new ways of governance” German bishops’ ad limina visit

Germany’s bishops are meeting in Fulda, a town in the centre of the country, this week ahead of a crucial trip to the Vatican. Their fall plenary meeting, which began on September 26, is dedicated to two major themes: the controversial “synodal way” and the bishops’ November ad limina visit to Rome. The stakes are […]

Karnataka schools to teach Bhagavad Gita from December

The Karnataka government has announced that it would include teachings of the Bhagavad Gita as part of moral education in schools from December this year. B.C. Nagesh, the state’s primary and secondary education minister, said the government has amended its earlier proposal to introduce Gita as a separate subject in schools and decided to teach […]

Church congratulates Diliip Tirkey for becoming Hockey India president

The Church in India has congratulated Dilip Tirkey, who was elected unopposed as the president of the Ho-ckey Federation of India. “We extend our congratulations to Dilip Tirkey for this new top job in India. The Church of India is definitely proud of him,” said Divine Word Father Nicholas Barla, secretary of the Office of […]

Remembering the crimes of India’s Dara Singh

The Christian community in India remembers Jan. 22, 1999, as the day Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines, who worked with leprosy patients in Odisha, and his young sons Timothy and Philip, were burned alive. It was on that day that the Western world really came face to face with the violence being meted out to […]