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Pope Francis comments on financial scandals

Pope Francis has made his first public comments about Vatican financial scandals following the sudden dismissal of a powerful Rome-based cardinal over claims of embezzlement. On Sunday 4 October, as he prepared to release a new encyclical to the world, Francis told a crowd in St Peter’s Square: “It is awful to see when people […]

Spanish bishops decry government plan to redesign national memorial

The bishops’ conference of Spain warned of conflict over government plans to remove Catholic symbols from a civil war memorial site near Madrid from which the remains of former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco were exhumed a year ago. The bishops’ conference of Spain warned of conflict over government plans to remove Catholic symbols from a […]

Australian academic Rowland wins prestigious Ratzinger Prize for theology

Tracey Rowland, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, has won the Ratzinger Prize for theology, often described as the field’s equivalent to the Nobel Peace Prize. The award is a stunning win for the Melbourne, Australia-based academic, who is the first Australian and only the third woman to receive the prestigious […]

Avoid the temptation of nationalism, Pope tells UN

Pope Francis is urging world leaders not to go down the path of nationalism and isolation following the Covid-19 pandemic. In a speech to the United Nations, Pope Francis warned against ideologies which place power before people. The 83-year-old Roman Pontiff told the UN general assembly that the Coronavirus pandemic was forcing the world to […]

Gay children are ‘children of God,’ Pope tells parents

Pope remarks came following the General Audience where he had a brief meeting with members for an Italian group Tenda di Gionata (Jonathan’s Tent), which supports the parents of LGBT children. According to reports of the encounter, Francis said “God loves your children as they are.” He also said: “The Pope loves your children as they are, because they […]

Catholic women criticize ‘mansplaining’ of pope’s masculine encyclical title

Prominent Catholic women across the globe are continuing to raise objections to the title of Pope Francis’ forthcoming new encyclical, “Fratelli tutti,” which uses the Italian masculine plural to address the world’s population. Some are also baldly upset at the Vatican’s most recent explanations for not reconsidering or adapting the title, which appears to place […]

How Lebanon’s First Female Militant Made Her Fight More Faithful

On July 31, Jocelyne Khoueiry passed away mercifully five days before seeing Beirut destroyed, again. A key player in the civil war that once tore the city apart, she spent the rest of her life trying to stitch it back together, and all of Lebanon with it. The Beirut explosion on August 4 reminded many of the […]

Church says Cardinal Pell returning to Vatican in crisis

Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’ former finance minister, will soon return to the Vatican during an extraordinary economic scandal for the first time since he was cleared of child abuse allegations in Australia five months ago, a church agency said on September 28. Pell will fly back to Rome on Sept. 29, CathNews, an information […]