Lawyers for Raffaele Mincione have claimed that the Vatican’s chief prosecutor may have perverted the course of justice because of the misleading allegations leveled against him in British courts. The allegations form a central part of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” and relate to a property deal where the Vatican invested £124m in a … Read more
Gay “clubs” operate openly in Catholic seminaries, the institutions that prepare men for the priesthood, the late Pope Benedict XVI has claimed in a posthumously published book scathing of Pope Francis’s progressive agenda. In a blistering attack on the state of the Catholic Church under his successor’s papacy, Benedict, who died on Dec 31 at … Read more
Pope Francis warned against excluding marginalised sectors of society from global solidarity and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic Sunday, saying to do so could result in “an even worse virus”. The Argentinian pontiff traveled outside the Vatican for the first time in several weeks to celebrate Sunday mass at a nearby Rome church to mark … Read more
A German cardinal on Friday provoked anger and controversy when he claimed the Catholic church was not responsible for sexual abuse by its clerics, and instead sought to pin the blame on homosexuality. “What has happened in the church is no different from what is happening in society as a whole,” Cardinal Walter Brandmüller said. … Read more