Columnist: Edgar Beltrán
Synod Secretariat Responsibilities Appear To Expand In Troubling Development
When presidents of bishops’ conferences and Eastern Catholic patriarchs gather in Rome next month to discuss Amoris laetitia, their meeting will have been organized largely by the Secretariat of the ...
Disgraced Sexual Abuser Bishop Zanchetta Released On Parole
Bishop Gustavo Óscar Bishop Zanchetta released on parolewas released on parole by an Argentinian court on Friday after serving only part of his four and a half year sentence for ...
French Bishop Issues ‘Fraternal Correction’ Over ‘Appalling’ Spina Appointment
A French archbishop has publicly criticized the appointment of a priest convicted of rape as chancellor of the Archdiocese of Toulouse, calling the appointment was “unacceptable and untenable.” Archbishop Hervé ...
Peruvian Cardinal Under Fire For Alleged Sexual Abuse Cover-Up
A Lima priest accused of sexual misconduct requested laicization last week, after The Pillar reported charges that the Lima archdiocese mishandled the allegations against him, in a process that some ...
Where is Zanchetta?
While a local court ordered his return to Argentina by April 1 after an extended hospital stay in Rome, it is not clear whether Bishop Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta has yet ...
Another Italian Priest Gets Wacked by ‘Francis the Merciful’
An Italian priest was declared excommunicated this month, after a December video in which he referred to Pope Francis as an “antipope.” The priest is the latest case in a ...
Tucho on Rupnik: ‘Other Cases…Are Worse’
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández (Tucho), the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, said this week that there are “worse but less publicized” abuse cases than that ...