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February 15, 2019
French nuncio under investigation for sexual assault
February 15, 2019
Bishop Luigi Ventura, apostolic nuncio to France since 2009 and a long-time Vatican diplomat, is under investigation for alleged sexual assault. The French newspaper Le Mondereported Friday that Ventura, 74, is being investigated by Paris authorities after he was accused late last month of having inappropriately touched a young male staffer of Paris City Hall.
Eucharist desecrated and statues smashed in series of French church attacks
February 15, 2019
At least 10 incidents of vandalism and desecration of Catholic churches have been reported in France since the beginning of February, according to French news sources and watch groups. Vandals in Catholic churches throughout the country have smashed statues, knocked down tabernacles, scattered or destroyed the Eucharist, burnt altar cloths and torn down crosses, among
Analysis: As abuse summit looms, Farrell appointed and McCarrick case lingers
February 15, 2019
As Pope Francis prepares for his long-awaited Vatican summit on sexual abuse, Catholic commentators and U.S. bishops are waiting to see what it can accomplish. But just as eagerly, they are waiting to see what will become of “Uncle Ted” McCarrick. The two events have become, by dint of timing, linked in a way that
Satanic Temple loses abortion religious freedom case in Missouri
February 15, 2019
The Missouri Supreme Court has rejected a legal challenge against an informed consent abortion law from a self-described Satanic Temple adherent who claimed the state violated her religious beliefs. Chief Justice Zell M. Fischer, writing in a concurring opinion, said that the US Supreme Court “has made it clear that state speech is not religious
Doctors operate on baby inside the womb in pioneering surgery
February 15, 2019
Doctors in the United Kingdom performed surgery on an unborn baby, before successfully returning the child, Elouise, to her mother’s womb. The mother, 26-year-old Bethan Simpson, learned during a routine 20-week scan late last year that Elouise had spina bifida, a condition that affects the spinal cord and backbone and can lead to many complications,
Bishop to Maduro: Open your eyes to see the suffering of the people
February 15, 2019
The bishop of San Cristóbal has exhorted Nicolas Maduro to consider the suffering of the Venezuelan people amid the ongoing political and humanitarian crisis in the country. “Open your eyes to see the suffering of the people. Hear the cry of the people who want not only freedom and democracy but to be considered in
Pope Francis: liturgy is not about ‘a past that no longer exists’ or a ‘presumed future’
February 15, 2019
The liturgy, Pope Francis said Thursday, cannot be reduced to a matter of taste, becoming the subject of ideological polarization, because it is a primary way Catholics encounter the Lord. There is a risk with the liturgy of falling into a “past that no longer exists or of escaping into a presumed future,” the pope
Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/02/19
February 15, 2019
Archbishop Charles Scicluna has said that online trolls are being paid to attack him. Cardinal Blase Cupich has expressed confidence that this month’s safeguarding summit will result in “decisive action”. Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseille has said he will propose two reforms at the summit. Cardinal Raymond Burke argues that the use of papal titles
A book every young Western man should read
February 15, 2019
Every conversion story is different, yet all of them share the same ultimate conviction: that the Catholic faith is the truth, both in what it has to say about the meaning and purpose of life as well as in its self-understanding as the one Church founded by Christ. These thoughts are stimulated by my reading
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