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November 26, 2019

On papal flight, Pope Francis talks Vatican financial scandal

November 26, 2019

Although investigators are looking into a controversial Vatican investment in a luxury London property development, whether the deal was corrupt is still an open question, Pope Francis said Tuesday. Answering questions aboard the papal plane from Tokyo to Rome Nov. 26, the pope said that investing funds from Peter’s Pence is an acceptable form of

How classical liberals paved the way for white nationalists

November 26, 2019

Earlier this month, a skirmish broke out on the American right between white nationalists and classical liberals. The white nationalists, calling themselves the “groyper army” (don’t ask), have been attending campus events organised by classical liberals in order to ask questions about “demographic replacement”, US support for Israel and the morality of homosexual acts –

As secularism advances, law itself is in the dock

November 26, 2019

On November 8, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York signed into law sweeping new legislation that not only expands access to abortion, and abortifacient drugs, but effectively demands that every crisis pregnancy clinic, hospital, school, faith-based business and church conform to the new secular dogma that abortion is healthcare. Or else. The so-called “Boss Bill”

Priests convicted of abusing children at Argentina school for the deaf

November 26, 2019

Two Catholic priests have been convicted of sexually abusing students students at an institute that cared for deaf children. The priests have been sentenced to more than 40 years in an Argentine prison. Their victims say one abuser should have been stopped seven years before his arrest, when he was accused of abusing children at

University should not be for the privileged few, Pope Francis says in Japan

November 26, 2019

At a Jesuit university in Tokyo on Tuesday, Pope Francis said a quality university education should not be something out of reach for the average person, and should promote justice and the common good. He asked Nov. 26 that the education of students at Sophia University may prepare them to “be concerned that their conduct

Morning Catholic must-reads: 26/11/19

November 26, 2019

A priest kidnapped by jihadists in Yemen has attributed his survival to prayer. An Argentine court has sentenced two priests to more than 40 years in prison for abusing deaf children. The Pope’s personal secretary will leave the post in December. A Japanese boxer who converted to Catholicism on death row attended yesterday’s papal Mass