Crux Staff, Author at Catholic Herald

Crux Staff

Moscow thanks Pope for ‘balanced approach’ to war in Ukraine

August 30, 2023

ROME – Russian spokespersons have praised what they called Pope Francis’s “balanced approach” to the war in Ukraine, in the wake of protests by both Ukrainian civic and church officials that the pontiff recently used rhetoric which, even if unintentionally, could be seen as boosting Russia’s imperial ambitions. The controversy erupted in the wake of

Pope’s Ukraine war envoy says world’s challenges can only be solved through ‘multilateralism’

August 28, 2023

ROME — Pope Francis’s personal envoy for the war in Ukraine has said that multilateralism, meaning cooperation among various states and international actors, is the only way to face contemporary challenges, but also warned that such an approach today is “in great difficulty”. In diplomatic jargon, “multilateralism” is generally understood to mean an alternative to

Rebel Italian cleric formally dismissed from priesthood

August 25, 2023

ROME – A high-profile Italian priest who championed euthanasia and same-sex marriage has been dismissed from the priesthood at his own request. Fr Luca Favarin, 53, who had been suspended since last December a divinis, made the announcement of his dismissal from the clerical state in an August 24 post on Facebook, saying the Vatican

Man arrested after threatening to detonate explosives at the Vatican

August 19, 2023

ROME – A 53-year-old whose identity has not been divulged was arrested on Friday after leading police on a long chase through Rome, which ended with the perpetrator insisting that he planned to detonate a truckload of explosives at the Vatican, although the claim turned out to be a hoax. According to Italian media reports,

Vatican announces changes to canon law which may affect Opus Dei

August 09, 2023

The 90,000 lay members and roughly 2,000 priests of Opus Dei, a worldwide Catholic organisation which is currently the church’s lone personal prelature, learned on Tuesday that Pope Francis has changed canon law in a way that may somehow affect them, though it is unclear exactly how the changes to canons 295 and 296 of the

Priests must play soccer, not preach dogma, says Pope in broadside against traditionalists

August 04, 2023

Rome – Pope Francis has attacked the “corruption” of restorationist movements within the Church and said the Second Vatican Council has not yet been fully implemented. In his latest surprise media interview, with a Spanish language outlet that appeared at the same time he’s in Lisbon celebrating World Youth Day, the Argentine Pontiff hit out

Pope Francis delivers surprise Facebook live message

July 28, 2023

ROME – By now, Pope Francis’s novel use of media should surprise no one – except, perhaps, his official PR personnel, who are constantly being caught off guard by papal interviews, soundbites and messages they didn’t know were coming, so they’re forever scrambling to catch up. The latest chapter in this pope’s maverick approach to

Prosecutor seeks seven years in prison for Cardinal Becciu

July 27, 2023

ROME – Effectively resting the prosecution’s case, Promoter of Justice Alessandro Diddi yesterday requested stiff prison sentences, fines, confiscation of assets and other penalties for all ten defendants in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” for financial crimes, including an especially stern punishment recommended for Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu. All in, Diddi requested a total

Kerry Robinson new CEO at Catholic Charities USA

July 26, 2023

NEW YORK – Kerry Alys Robinson, a veteran in Catholic nonprofit leadership, was announced July 25 as the next Catholic Charities USA president and CEO, becoming only the second layperson and second woman to lead the U.S. Catholic church’s largest charitable network. Robinson joins CCUSA from Leadership Roundtable, a Catholic nonprofit organisation that promotes best

October conference to revisit ‘Pius Wars’ over role of wartime pontiff

July 13, 2023

ROME – One year after an explosive new book reopened what have often been dubbed the “Pius Wars”, meaning debates over Pope Pius XII and his alleged “silence” on the Holocaust, the Vatican and Rome’s Jesuit-sponsored Gregorian University are staging a major international conference on recently released documents from Pius’ reign. The conference, titled “New

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