In a Synod of Bishops where priest shortages in the Amazon have been driving discussion of ordaining married men, the surprise really isn’t that someone finally noticed there’s another solution, one that doesn’t require changing the traditional criteria for getting a Roman collar. The only surprise, probably, is that it’s taken this long for someone […]
Publicly, the reason for his “resignation” was a consequence of the leaking of the names of five suspended Vatican officials, but sources tell the Register it was actually triggered by other issues. The resignation of Vatican police commander Domenico Giani on Monday had been long expected, but the background to his removal remains shrouded in […]
AntroDellaMagia-News.it, a site dedicated to promoting witchcraft and superstition, praised the opening ceremony for the Amazon Synod held in the garden of the Vatican on October 4. The site characterized the event as”a beautiful ritual dedicated to Mother Earth,” and “a pagan fertility ritual with indigenous leaders who worshiped two idols of a fertility goddess […]
The St. Gallen mafia’s long war to revolutionize the priesthood has now reached a decisive moment. The showdown for the soul of the priesthood is here, raging at the Amazon Synod. Soon after the synod started, Bishop Erwin Kräutler admitted that the synod was “maybe a step to” women priests. The explosive confession came after he had […]
The pope fired the head of his security detail and called in a mafia prosecutor to get to the bottom of secret London apartments, and what happened to money in his charity fund. A few hours before Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with his Vatican counterpart Pietro Parolin in Rome in early October, the […]
The archdiocese of New York has temporarily suspended from active ministry a high-ranking priest accused of brutally raping a boy at least 150 times. Arne Haughwout sued the archdiocese of New York, St. Sylvester Church in Staten Island and Msgr. Edward Weber on Aug. 14, the day when New York’s Child Victims Act (CVA) went […]
Authorities are investigating allegations that a Lehigh County priest sexually abused a minor. The Rev. Robert J. Potts, 82, pastor of St. Ursula Church in Fountain Hill, has been removed from ministry services. Potts is accused of sexually abused a child in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Diocese of Allentown announced Sunday. Potts […]
In Brazil, most of the criticism directed towards the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon came from the government, not from members of the hierarchy. Bishop José Luís Azcona is among the minority of Brazilian prelates to raise concerns about the synod, calling the Vatican meeting’s preparatory document “weak and inconsistent.” Still, he has sought […]
California is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse more time to decide whether to file lawsuits, joining several states in expanding the statute of limitations for victims over warnings from school districts that the new rules could bankrupt them. The law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom gives victims of childhood sexual abuse until age […]
Source: This was payback for the raid of the Secretariat of State The head of the Vatican City State’s national police force has resigned, after a confidential internal memo was leaked to the press that announced the suspension of some Vatican officials and employees and restricted their access to the Vatican. The suspended officials were connected to […]