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Cardinal Müller on Synod: ‘This is the great hour of manipulation’

September 14, 2023

On Tuesday Cardinal Müller gave a frank interview to Spanish Catholic news website InfoVaticana, in which he has expressed his grave concern about multiple aspects of the upcoming Synod Assembly on synodality and the current state of the Church. The interview was done in writing as the Cardinal is in Poland, and followed the announcement

Church rushes to Morocco’s aid after devastating earthquake

September 13, 2023

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – As Morocco continues to struggle to cope with its worst earthquake to strike a major urban centre in a century, which so far has left almost 3,000 people dead and at least that number injured, Catholic leaders are scrambling to contribute to the relief effort. Rescue teams are engaged in a race

Pope’s Ukraine envoy to meet Chinese premier on Wednesday

September 12, 2023

ROME – An Italian newspaper reported Tuesday morning that Pope Francis’s personal envoy for the conflict in Ukraine, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, will depart today for Beijing, where he is expected to meet Premier Li Qiang, considered China’s second most important official after President Xi Jinping. Zuppi’s trip to Beijing has been widely anticipated, coming after

30,000 attend beatification of Ulma family in Poland

September 11, 2023

Some 30,000 people attended the beatification of the Ulma family in the Poland on Sunday 10 September, the first time an entire family has been beatified. The beatification Mass for Józef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children, who were martyred during World War II for sheltering two Jewish families from the Nazis, took place

Opus Dei may have to seek new status under canon law, says spokesman

September 11, 2023

ROME – A leading member of Opus Dei and its spokesman in the UK has suggested that in light of revisions made recently by Pope Francis to the nature of “personal prelatures”, a status Opus Dei has held under Church law since 1982, the group may be forced to seek another category that better reflects

Pope dismisses critics of Synod as ‘ideological’ with an ‘incapacity for dialogue’

September 04, 2023

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – Pope Francis warned against the influence of what he called “ideology” on an upcoming Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, indicated that his future travel plans may be curtailed given considerations of health and limitations on movement, and also distanced himself from climate change extremists. The pontiff also largely rejected

Pope Francis kicks off ‘hot autumn’ at the Vatican

September 04, 2023

ROME – As summer winds down in Rome and the city fills up with reluctant vacationers getting back to the grind, Pope Francis has kicked off what promises to be a true autunno caldo, or “hot autumn” at the Vatican. For Francis, this autumn promises to be one of his busiest yet, with two international trips,

Moscow thanks Pope for ‘balanced approach’ to war in Ukraine

August 30, 2023

ROME – Russian spokespersons have praised what they called Pope Francis’s “balanced approach” to the war in Ukraine, in the wake of protests by both Ukrainian civic and church officials that the pontiff recently used rhetoric which, even if unintentionally, could be seen as boosting Russia’s imperial ambitions. The controversy erupted in the wake of