Columnist: Claire Giangravè
Leo Claims Iran Conflict Is NOT A Just War
Pope Leo XIV said the war in Iran does not qualify as a “just war” according to Catholic teaching, while answering questions by journalists aboard the papal plane for his ...
Catholic Ritual Blended with Neapolitan Folklore in Pilgrimage for Queers
The pews of the Church of the Annunziata in Mercogliano, a town just outside of Naples, were filled with guests wearing lacquered nails, towering wigs and heavy eyelashes. The group ...
Vatican Enlists Pro-Abortion, Pro-LGBT Schwarzenegger To Bring Muscle to Catholic Church’s Climate Push
To mark the the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’” (Blessed Be), the Vatican has invited more than 1,000 religious leaders, activists and scientists to ...
Does Vatican-Approved Document Allow Italian Homosexual Men to Become Priests?
UPDATE: Catholic Culture reported that the President of the Italian Bishops’ Episcopal Commission for the Clergy and Consecrated Life and the Italian Bishops’ newspaper have denied media reports that newly ...
Never-Ending Synod: Vatican Delays ‘Controversial’ Topics to 2025
A three-year process aimed at putting the most pressing concerns of lay Catholics front and center in the church was reshuffled on Thursday (March 14), as the Vatican announced that ...
Pope Asks Theologians to ‘Demasculinize’ the Church
Speaking to members of the International Theological Commission at the Vatican on Thursday, Pope Francis asked theologians, in an unscripted remark, to “demasculinize” the church. “There is something I don’t ...
Pope’s Legal Crony Tries to Justify Bergoglio’s Rash Actions
A high-ranking Vatican official who oversees church law clarified on Tuesday (Nov. 28) the protocols for disciplining a bishop, saying any failure to act in communion with the church and ...
New Indictments and ‘Cardinal’s Lady’ Shake-Up Vatican Financial Trial
Vatican prosecutors issued new indictments Tuesday (Jan. 25) against four individuals involved in a financial scandal over the Roman Catholic Church’s money-losing investment in a London real estate deal, further ...
Former Economic Czar Warns the Vatican is Facing Major Deficit
Former Vatican economy czar Cardinal George Pell warns in a new book that the Catholic institution is facing a growing deficit, but he hopes financial reform efforts have put a ...
Ex Head of Vatican Bank Faced ‘Spite, Traps, Threats and Intimidation’
In two recent interviews, the former president of the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), better known as the Vatican Bank, spoke about the relationship between members of the ...
How Obscure Italian Hospital Became the Eye of a Global Storm
In February 2013, in his last official act as pope, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI appointed a commissioner for a small, seemingly insignificant hospital in Rome, the Immaculate Dermatological Institute (IDI) ...