Crux Staff, Author at Catholic Herald

Crux Staff

Synod on Synodality urged to condemn Hamas attacks in name of ‘moral clarity’

October 14, 2023

ROME – An official of the oldest Jewish advocacy organization in the United States has called upon the ongoing Synod on Synodality in the Vatican to issue an explicit condemnation of terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel, suggesting it’s a needed gesture of “moral clarity.” “To this point, the synod gathered in the Vatican has

Parolin calls for coexistence with Palestinians as Israel presses Vatican on ‘ambiguities’

October 10, 2023

ROME – On a day in which Israel objected anew to efforts by Christian leaders to be even-handed in their approach to the new war with Hamas, the pope’s top diplomat said that until the deeper Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved, there’s a perennial risk that such acts “will repeat themselves with ever great ferocity”. “The

Pope’s new eco-manifesto slams climate sceptics and urges dramatic action to combat climate change

October 04, 2023

ROME – Warning that “the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point,” Pope Francis on Wednesday released a new document urging dramatic action to combat climate change ahead of the U.N. COP28 summit scheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 12 in Dubai. The new document, titled Laudate Deum, or “Praise God”,

Lawyer in ‘trial of the century’ claims defendants treated Vatican bank ‘like a cash machine’

September 28, 2023

ROME – A panel of Vatican judges overseeing the trial of ten defendants for extortion and other financial crimes, dubbed the Vatican’s “trial of the century”, heard Wednesday from a lawyer representing the Vatican bank who complained that the accused had treated the bank “like a cash machine, which always had to respond positively to their

Papal envoy in leopard print vestment causes social media frenzy

September 21, 2023

ROME – A veteran Vatican diplomat recently became a brief cause célèbre in Italy after images of him celebrating Mass in a leopard print chasuble went viral on social media, generating an avalanche of largely derisive commentary and forcing the local cathedral to issue a clarification. Archbishop Nicola Girasoli, 66, currently the papal ambassador to

Alleged Rupnik victims say Church’s pledge of ‘zero tolerance’ for sex abuse is mere PR campaign

September 20, 2023

ROME – An open letter signed by five alleged victims of Father Marko Rupnik, a former Jesuit and renowned Slovenian artist, asserts that recent events show pledges of “zero tolerance” for sexual abuse by church officials are merely a “PR campaign … followed only by frequently covert actions, which support and cover up for the

Rupnik centre gets ‘clean bill of health’ from Diocese of Rome with doubts raised over excommunication

September 19, 2023

ROME – Despite being expelled in July from his Jesuit order over charges of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse, famed Slovenian artist Father Marko Rupnik’s base of operations in Rome has drawn a clean bill of health from the pope’s diocese, which praised his Centro Aletti for fostering “a healthy community life free of particular

Letter and Nazi dagger reopen debates over wartime role of Pope Pius XII

September 18, 2023

ROME – Two new discoveries regarding Pope Pius XII are rekindling debate over the role of the wartime pontiff, including a letter suggesting he had earlier knowledge of the Holocaust than previously believed and a Nazi dagger presented to the pontiff by a repentant SS officer. Both items were published in a Sunday insert of Corriere

Vatican and China discuss resumption of grain exports from Russia and Ukraine

September 15, 2023

Pope Francis’s peace envoy has met government officials in China to discuss how to restart a deal to allow Ukraine and Russia to export grain. The meeting in Beijing between Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi and Li Hui, China’s Special Envoy for Eurasian Affairs, took place even though the Holy See and the People’s Republic of

Pope’s Ukraine envoy to meet Chinese premier on Wednesday

September 12, 2023

ROME – An Italian newspaper reported Tuesday morning that Pope Francis’s personal envoy for the conflict in Ukraine, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, will depart today for Beijing, where he is expected to meet Premier Li Qiang, considered China’s second most important official after President Xi Jinping. Zuppi’s trip to Beijing has been widely anticipated, coming after

Opus Dei may have to seek new status under canon law, says spokesman

September 11, 2023

ROME – A leading member of Opus Dei and its spokesman in the UK has suggested that in light of revisions made recently by Pope Francis to the nature of “personal prelatures”, a status Opus Dei has held under Church law since 1982, the group may be forced to seek another category that better reflects

Pope’s “Great Mother Russia” comments slammed by Zelensky advisor while Ukrainian bishops protest

September 09, 2023

ROME – A senior advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has labeled Pope Francis as “pro-Russian” and “not credible,” flatly rejecting any prospect that the Vatican might play mediating role in the current Russian war in the country. The advisor also suggested that the Pope’s line on the war may be influenced by Russian investments

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