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December 28, 2022

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI under medical care as health takes sudden turn

December 28, 2022

Vatican City, Dec 28, 2022 The Vatican confirmed Wednesday that pope emeritus Benedict XVI has experienced a sudden decline in his health, but is stable and under medical care. “I can confirm that in the last few hours there has been a worsening due to advancing age. The situation at the moment remains under control,

The Rupnik Scandal: the Jesuit must stand trial, says New York canonist

December 28, 2022

Father Marko Rupnik at a private audience with Pope Francis at the Apostolic Palace on January 3, 2022 (Vatican Media) (ROME) Fr Marko Ivan Rupnik should stand trial, and any involvement Pope Francis had in directing the Vatican or the Jesuits on how the case was to be handled should be made known “sooner rather than

Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults

December 28, 2022

How do we help children and adults who have been abused? The first thing is to talk about it, recognising that it is endemic in our world. The second is to be clear that it isn’t the victim’s fault – that any shame they may feel is misplaced. Abuse is always an abuse of power

On the Fourth Day of Christmas: Martyrs in deed, not will

December 28, 2022

The sad truth is that the murder of however many infants there may have been at the time, a monstrous crime though it is, would barely have made a ripple in the violent, stormy history of Judea, says Richard Ounsworth OP