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September 20, 2023

Pope condemns hitting civilian targets after Caritas warehouse destroyed by Russians in Lviv

September 20, 2023

ROME – Pope Francis has condemned the routine use of “conventional weapons” against civilian targets in a message to Ghanian Cardinal Peter Turkson, sent the day after a warehouse in Ukraine containing several tons of humanitarian aid was destroyed in a Russian drone attack. In his Sept. 19 message, the pope pointed to what he

Alleged Rupnik victims say Church’s pledge of ‘zero tolerance’ for sex abuse is mere PR campaign

September 20, 2023

ROME – An open letter signed by five alleged victims of Father Marko Rupnik, a former Jesuit and renowned Slovenian artist, asserts that recent events show pledges of “zero tolerance” for sexual abuse by church officials are merely a “PR campaign … followed only by frequently covert actions, which support and cover up for the

Critics are wrong to accuse Pope Pius XII of inactivity during Holocaust

September 20, 2023

Pope John XXIII, that short-serving but consequential pontiff – he was in office for less than five years, but was responsible for convening the Second Vatican Council – was by all accounts a gentle, pacific and kindly man. It was almost certainly an unpleasant surprise to him, therefore, to discover in the Vatican apartments an