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Cardinal Burke’s week of controversy
July 04, 2019
Cardinal Raymond Burke broke his silence last week regarding the unfortunate appearance of his name on a list of senior prelates who received monetary gifts from Michael J Bransfield, the disgraced former Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston. Bransfield is accused of sexual misconduct with adults and financial impropriety, including the use of diocesan funds to reimburse himself
Cardinal Burke breaks silence over gifts from disgraced bishop
July 03, 2019
Cardinal Raymond Burke has broken his silence over the appearance of his name among those on a list of several senior churchmen who received gifts of money from the Bishop emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston, Michael J. Bransfield, the subject of a recent Vatican-sanctioned investigation that found evidence of serious sexual and financial impropriety.  Tasked with a
Benedict thinks Church unity always prevails. Let’s hope he’s right
June 28, 2019
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has granted an exclusive interview to Corriere della Sera’s weekly magazine. It is the second major departure in recent months, from his promise to fade silently into the background and embrace a life of quasi-monastic discipline after his resignation became effective. The first departure was in April, when he brought out
The people who really keep the Vatican going
June 27, 2019
In all the talk of curial reform, most of the attention has focused on the top spots: what will they be when the dust settles, and who will hold the various positions that will emerge? Those are reasonable questions, even vitally important ones. Nevertheless, the Roman Curia is a bureaucracy, and will be the day
Cardinal Burke cuts ties with Dignitatis Humanae Institute amid Steve Bannon row
June 26, 2019
A senior churchman supportive of traditional Catholic liturgy and often cast as a leader of opposition to Pope Francis, has resigned the honorary presidency of a controversial think tank, the Dignitatis Humanae Institute founded by British conservative Benjamin Harnwell, and distanced himself from a major political agitator with strong ties to the Institute, the former
Zanchetta granted permission to return to Vatican
June 26, 2019
A judge in Argentina has granted a high-ranking Vatican official facing trial for criminal sexual misconduct to leave the country. Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, currently Assessor to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See — APSA —is charged with abusing two seminarians while he was bishop of Oran diocese in northern Argentina.  Pope Francis
‘We could have done better’: an interview with Cardinal Versaldi
June 20, 2019
The folks at the Congregation for Catholic Education were surprised, apparently, by the reaction to the document they released last week on gender ideology in education. Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, prefect of the Congregation, told the Catholic Herald: “It seemed to us that – perhaps underestimating then the echo it had – it was more a
Vatican denies Benedict XVI stroke rumours
June 18, 2019
Rome, 18 June 2019 — The Director ad interim of the Press Office of the Holy See, Alessandro Gisotti, has denied rumours Pope emeritus Benedict XVI suffered a stroke. “The rumours are false,” he told the Catholic Herald in response to queries this morning. Rumours began to circulate late Monday, that the 92-year-old pope emeritus
Cardinal Versaldi: Why we produced the gender document
June 17, 2019
Rome, 16 June 2019 — The head of the Vatican department that drafted a controversial pamphlet on gender theory has defended the document, saying attempts to impose “extreme forms” of gender ideology are reminiscent of totalitarian and dictatorial regimes. The Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, made the remark during an
Why the Pope told his nuncios not to criticise him
June 14, 2019
The thing on which journalists reporting the story of Pope Francis’s meeting with papal diplomatic representatives on Thursday rightly seized, was a line at the end of the fifth section in the Pope’s prepared remarks. He hand-delivered the speech, by the way, preferring as he often does an unscripted conversation to a set piece. The
The Church’s next scandal is money
June 13, 2019
“The Devil always enters by way of the pocket.” It’s a phrase that Pope Francis often repeats. He has it on no lesser authority than that of St Paul the Apostle, who wrote: “For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled
Why the Vatican has stepped in at Lourdes
June 13, 2019
Last week was very eventful, especially insofar as the politics of ecclesiastical crisis and scandal are concerned, so it is quite possible readers missed a significant item out of the Vatican, regarding the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. On Thursday, the Holy See put the popular pilgrimage site under the control of a special
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