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October 15, 2019

Vatican promotes ‘smart rosary,’ selling for $109

October 15, 2019

The Vatican promoted the launch of a ‘smart rosary’ bracelet Tuesday compatible with an iOS and Android app, which costs over $100. “In a world of indifference and in the face of so many injustices, poverty, elementary rights denied, praying for peace in the world means reconciling ourselves in our daily relationships, with the poorest,

New York will get statue of Mother Cabrini

October 15, 2019

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced the state will erect a statue of St Frances Xavier Cabrini. The announcement comes two months after a New York City public arts program decided they would not build a statue of Mother Cabrini, despite the saint topping a poll organized by the program. During a public nominations

Pope names members of drafting committee for Amazon synod final doc

October 15, 2019

Pope Francis made four personal nominations on Tuesday of members to the group responsible for drafting the final document of the Amazon synod. In addition to the members who will be voted to the committee by the synod, Pope Francis has nominated Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, Austria; Argentinian Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, chancellor of

Bishop Byrne: Newman would be surprised to be canonised a saint

October 15, 2019

Cardinal John Henry Newman would be surprised by his own canonization as a saint, an English bishop said Monday, adding that Newman’s life offers an important witness of holiness for contemporary Catholics. “I am sure that no one would be more surprised than Newman to find himself a canonized saint. In his own life time

Archbishop and parish priest killed in California car accident

October 15, 2019

Archbishop Dominic Jala of Shillong, India and Fr Mathew Vellankal died in a car crash on October 10 during a visit to the Diocese of Oakland. The visiting archbishop and two local priests’ Toyota Prius was hit by a tractor-trailer truck on a California highway in Wilbur Springs at 2:20pm on October 10, according to

Pope Francis appoints new head of Vatican security

October 15, 2019

Pope Francis has appointed the second-in-command of Vatican security to head the City State’s national police force, after the resignation of the former chief on October 14. The Pope named Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti, who has worked as part of the Vatican’s gendarmerie since 1995, and has been vice director and vice commander of the Vatican

What the police chief’s resignation tells us about the Vatican power struggle

October 15, 2019

Things took an interesting turn here at the Vatican yesterday, in connection with a major financial scandal involving current and former officials of the Secretariat of State and the Holy See’s financial institutions and watchdogs, offices of which were raided earlier this month by the Vatican police. In the middle of Monday afternoon, the Press

The Attorney General is right about secularism – but he missed a crucial point

October 15, 2019

At the University of Notre Dame this past Friday Attorney General Barr excoriated “secularists” who were bent on destroying a country which is fundamentally made for a religious people. Taking the defense of religious liberty as his primary theme, Barr began his 4,000-word address by recalling that for the Framer’s of our Constitution, “religion was