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October 06, 2023

Vatican backtracks on Synod media blackout

October 06, 2023

ROME – Despite Pope Francis’s insistence on a media “fast” during this month’s Synod of Bishops, Vatican officials have said that engagement with the press is a personal decision, and participants who choose to give interviews will not be “punished”. The clarification came after German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, a former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal

Belgian Catholic bishop advocates euthanasia for the elderly

October 06, 2023

A Catholic bishop in Belgium has declared his support for the euthanasia of elderly people. Bishop Johan Bonny of Antwerp made a distinction between killing people who were old and suffering from an incurable illness and those who were young. He also suggested that the euthanasia of the elderly was a form of killing as

Pope’s Synod media blackout backfires as Cardinal Zen is handed a platform

October 06, 2023

ROME – Yesterday’s big news out of the Synod of Bishops really did come from outside, i.e., it didn’t emanate from within the Paul VI Audience Hall where the event is taking place, but rather from someone who isn’t even there: 91-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, the retired Bishop of Hong Kong, whose September 21 critical