Columnist: Nicole Winfield
Leo Wants Wealthy American Catholics To Keep Donating, In Spite Of The Vatican’s Troubling History With The Papal Foundation
Pope Leo XIV on Saturday encouraged some of the wealthiest U.S. Catholics to keep on giving to support his charitable works, in an audience that confirmed how the election of ...
Vatican Prosecutors In “Trial of the Century” Fail To Deposit Evidence By Deadline
Vatican prosecutors on Thursday seemingly defied an appeals court order to turn over to the defense all the evidence gathered in the Vatican’s big financial trial, setting the stage for ...
Vatican Launches Campaign to Encourage Divestment from Mining Industries
The Vatican on Friday launched a campaign to encourage divestment from mining industries, saying the Catholic Church should invest its money in ways that are consistent with its ecological teachings ...
Pope Francis’ Problematic Secret Decrees in Spotlight in Vatican’s ‘Trial of the Century’
Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” argued Tuesday that Pope Francis inadvertently violated the fundamental rights of their clients by issuing four secret decrees that gave prosecutors ...
Pope Leo Meets with Chicago Union Leaders, Urges Migrant Welcome
Pope Leo XIV urged labor union leaders from Chicago on Thursday to advocate for immigrants and welcome minorities into their ranks, weighing in as the Trump administration crackdown on immigrants ...
Vatican Prosecutors Suffer Embarrassing Loss As Tribunal Says Their Appeal Is Inadmissible
The Vatican appeals tribunal put an end Thursday to prosecutors’ efforts to salvage their claims of massive fraud in the Holy See’s “Trial of the Century,” in which a once-powerful cardinal ...
Pope Leo Names Successor To Embattled New Orleans Archbishop
Bishop Checchio is an odd choice given his likely involved in the cover-up of McCarrick's sexual abuse. Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday named a successor to embattled New Orleans Archbishop ...
Witness-Tampering Allegations Turn Spotlight from Becciu to Vatican Prosecutor
Defense lawyers in the Holy See’s “trial of the century” asked the Vatican prosecutor to recuse himself from the appeals trial Monday, arguing he was implicated in questionable behavior according ...
Scandalous: LGBTQ+ Catholics Make Holy Year Pilgrimage to Rome
Over 1,000 LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome on Saturday, celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church after long feeling ...
Pope Leo Meets With Homo-Heretic James Martin
Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, sending a strong signal of welcome ...
WOKE PRIORITIES: Vatican Strikes Solar Farm Deal to Become the World’s First Carbon-Neutral State
Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of controversy between the two, into a vast solar farm that ...
Pope Leo Marks Feast Day With Appeal to Help Erase Vatican’s Budget Shortfall
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American ...
Cardinal Müller Hopeful Pope Leo XIV Will Lift Restrictions On The Latin Mass
They went into last week’s conclave vastly outnumbered and smarting after being sidelined by Pope Francis for 12 years. And yet conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the ...
Vatican’s Point-Man on Charity and Migration Outraged at ‘Reckless’ USAID Cuts, Claims Millions will Die
The Vatican’s charity voiced outrage Monday at what it called the “reckless” and “unhuman” U.S. plans to gut USAID, with Pope Francis’ point-man on development aid insisting that the Trump ...
Abuse Survivors Urge Vatican to Globalize Zero-Tolerance Policy
Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged the Vatican on Monday to expand its zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002 to the rest of the ...
Belgium Prime Minister BLASTS Pope Francis For Catholic Church Sex Abuse Cover-Up
On a brutal day for the frail and aging Pope Francis, the king of Belgium, its prime minister and the rector of the Catholic university that invited him here all ...
Vatican’s Archives Shed Light on the Legion of Christ Scandal
The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn't speak out about the Holocaust. But they're also providing details ...
Women Who Say They Were Abused By Rupnik Ask For His Mosaics To Be Removed
Five women who say they were psychologically, spiritually and sexually abused by a famous ex-Jesuit artist asked Catholic bishops around the world on Friday to remove his mosaics from their ...
Belgium Bishop Defrocked 14 YEARS after Admitting to Abuse
Pope Francis on Thursday defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment. The case of Roger Vangheluwe, ...
Pope Francis Defended Bishop Who Admitted Abuse Cover-Ups
The clergy sexual abuse scandal is slowly gathering steam in Italy with increasing media coverage, criminal convictions and the launch Monday of an investigative podcast dedicated to a case that ...
Pope Meets With Child Protection Board As Events Show Abuse Scandal Isn’t Going Away
Pope Francis sought to encourage his child protection board on Thursday to continue helping victims, as new developments outside the Vatican underscored that the Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse scandal ...
