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June 2019

June 06, 2019

Vatican to Launch Weekly News Program — in Latin

From CNS: A weekly news program about the pope and the Vatican will now be...

April 2019

April 28, 2019

Report: In a First, Pope Francis To Name Lay Woman to Head Vatican Dicastery, Replacing Cardinal Pell

Details (translated): Continuing his journey of naming lay people in important structures of the Vatican,...

March 2019

March 04, 2019

BREAKING: Pope Francis Opens Vatican Archives on Pius XII, Declaring ‘The Church is Not Afraid of History’

From remarks by Pope Francis this morning to "superiors, collaborators, and employees" of the Vatican...

February 2019

February 22, 2019

‘You Have to Exonerate the Human Being’: How They Handle Sex Abuse Cases in Poland

Not all abusers are treated the same way in every country, as The Wall Street...

February 18, 2019

The Next Scandal: Vatican Confirms Secret Rules for Handling ‘The Children of the Ordained’

From The New York Times: The Vatican has confirmed, apparently for the first time, that...

February 14, 2019

Pope Francis Names Cardinal Farrell as Camerlengo

The news dropped in the Vatican bulletin this morning: The Pope has nominated Cardinal Jerin...

November 2018

November 02, 2018

This Christmas, the Vatican Nativity scene will be made of sand

From CNS: Although sand castles and sculptures usually conjure up images of hot summers on...

June 2018

June 08, 2018

Vatican: ‘We don’t want to preclude anything’ regarding women or married priests at Amazon summit

From Crux: At a press conference on the summit of bishops focusing on the Pan-Amazonian...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

A beautiful new resource: Vatican releases text for Way of the Cross written by young people

From the Holy See's website: The texts of the meditations on the fourteen stations of...

March 14, 2018

Media FAIL: Vatican admits it doctored photo of letter from Benedict — UPDATED

From AP: The Vatican admitted that it altered a photo sent to the media of...

March 05, 2018

Cardinal Kasper: ‘Tradition is not stagnant’; Amoris Laetitia is not heresy

From Vatican News: As Cardinal Walter Kasper turns 85, the former President of the Pontifical...

March 01, 2018

Vatican magazine slams treatment of nuns

From Reuters: A Vatican magazine denounced widespread exploitation of nuns for cheap or free labor...

October 2015

October 24, 2015

Sexism at the Synod?

Over at America's blog "In All Things," Fr. James Martin points out a significant oversight...

October 20, 2015

From the Synod: Cardinal Napier optimistic about Synod’s outcome

From NCR: One of the 13 cardinals said to have signed a letter to Pope...

October 16, 2015

From the Synod: Chicago’s Cupich on divorce, conscience, reconciliation

One archbishop's take, via NCR: The Catholic church has to respect decisions divorced and remarried...

October 15, 2015

From the Synod: “We do not support a process of admitting the divorced and remarried to the Eucharist”

That comment comes from a Polish archbishop who briefed reporters Thursday. Details: Archbishop Gadecki, President...

October 13, 2015

From the Synod: “Is there someone out here who knows how a perfect marriage takes place?”

View image | gettyimages.com Some interesting commentary last week, from an Indian couple discussing their...

October 13, 2015

Lombardi on the “Letter from 13 cardinals”

Vatican Information Service (VIS) reports: The director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi,...

October 12, 2015

From the Synod: Observers say media coverage “doesn’t reflect what we see in there”

From today's press briefing, via CNS: Two couples attending the Synod of Bishops on the...

October 08, 2015

From the Synod: Ordaining women deacons raises concerns that “need to be studied”

From the daily press briefing, via Vatican Radio: On Thursday Oct. 8 Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckley...

October 05, 2015

Pope’s opening remarks to Synod: “With faith in God, fidelity to the Magesterium, the good of the Church…”

From Monday morning: Let us remember, that the Synod will be a space for the...

October 03, 2015

Vatican fires gay priest ahead of Synod—UPDATED

Fron AP: The Vatican on Saturday fired a monsignor who came out as gay on...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

He’s back: Cardinal Burke reappointed to the Curia

Details: Via Zenit The Vatican announced today that Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, metropolitan archbishop of...

September 22, 2015

A Jewish writer asks: “Why haven’t Jews responded to Vatican II?”

An interesting, perhaps even surprising, perspective, from The Forward: The arrival of Pope Francis in...

September 18, 2015

Vatican welcomes first refugee family

From Vatican Radio: A Vatican statement on Friday (18th September) said a Syrian refugee family,...

September 07, 2015

Washington Post: conservative dissent brewing inside the Vatican

Not surprising, but a timely overview: As he upends church convention, Francis also is grappling...

September 06, 2015

Report: Vatican cracks down on Medjugorje visionaries, prohibits spreading messages in local parish

From Rorate Caeli: The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with an order signed...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

Vatican says autopsy reveals disgraced former nuncio died of natural causes

From Vatican Radio, confirmation of what was reported yesterday— that former Nuncio, Jozef Wesolowski, while facing trail...

August 24, 2015

Want to pass through the Holy Door at St. Peter’s next year? Get a reservation.

From CNS: Drawing on the experience of the public exposition of the Shroud of Turin,...

May 2015

May 15, 2015

Vatican official credits TV series “Modern Family” for drawing attention to family issues

Well now. This is different. From Crux: Politics has no monopoly on making strange bedfellows,...