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May 2018

May 10, 2018

Vatican Prepares for Life after Cardinal Pell

Cardinal George Pell continues on his "leave of absence" from his post as Prefect of...

May 07, 2018

Pope Warns Against “Dumbing Down” of Catholic Media

Pope Francis offered May 1 another chapter of his magisterium on the opportunities and responsibilities...

May 03, 2018

Nuns Shame Spanish Bishops in Country’s #MeToo Moment

The acquittal on rape charges of five men who sexually assaulted an 18 year-old girl...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Austrian, Croat Churches At War Over “Europe’s Largest Fascist Meeting”

The Catholic Church in the south Austrian state of Carinthia has distanced itself "with vigor...

April 26, 2018

Czech Bishops Blackmail City Council Over “Blasphemous” Play

October this year marks the 100th anniversary of the independence of the Czech Republic from...

April 23, 2018

French, Spanish Bishops Celebrate End of Terrorist Group ETA

The news that the Basque separatist group ETA is to dissolve after a sixty-year reign...

April 19, 2018

Maltese Bishop Slams “Blatant Incoherence” of “Stale” Church

"I wish that a certain category of Christians, in particular those in the inner circles...

April 16, 2018

Vatican Worried about ‘Killer Robots’

Against the background of Trump's beating war drums in Syria, the Vatican has warned against...

April 10, 2018

Macron Makes Historic Overture to French Catholics

In an historic gesture that promises to alter the course of the venerable French tradition...

April 05, 2018

Vatican Drops the Ball on World Autism Day

As many as 77 million people around the world suffer from autism spectrum disorders, according...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

French Bishops Double Down on Opposition to Euthanasia

On end-of-life issues, the 118 French bishops that met in their Spring Assembly last week...

March 22, 2018

‘Infovaticana’ Cries Foul After Taste of Own Medicine

The Associated Press has this Tuesday taken up the story of the Holy See's supposed...

March 19, 2018

Can the Church Compromise on “Gender Theory”?

The Vatican is currently preparing two documents on so-called "gender theory", revealed the secretary of...

March 15, 2018

German Bishop “Surprised and Terrified” by Far-Right Hatred

"Xenophobia, racism and naked hatred are not legitimate expressions of opinion, but attacks on the...

March 12, 2018

Austrian Church Denounces Kurz’s “Dismantling of Welfare State”

What did Pope Francis and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz talk about in their audience last...

March 08, 2018

Vatican Turns to Young People to “Hack” Social Problems

120 young people from 57 universities on five continents around the world will come together...

March 05, 2018

German Diocese to Take Brave Step of Massive Parish Closings

The Diocese of Trier in Germany will reduce its number of parishes from 172 to...

March 01, 2018

Italian Church Scrambles to Stop Racist Salvini

Swift and harsh have been the Catholic reactions to the spectacle of Matteo Salvini, head...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Intercommunion: The Humbling of the German Bishops

It is highly significant that the two main outcomes of the German bishops' fall assembly...

February 22, 2018

“Rosary to the Borders” Sickness Spreads to France

Two opposing sectors of the French Catholic Church have organized activities for the coming weeks...

February 19, 2018

Catalan Bishops Reaffirm “Moral Legitimacy” of Independence Push

In the midst of the political paralysis brought on by the Spanish central government's ongoing...

February 15, 2018

Czechs Call on Pope to Sack Cardinal Duka

A group of Czech Catholics has called on Pope Francis not to extend the tenure...

February 12, 2018

Cardinal Marx Breaks New Ground in Care for Gay Catholics

Catholic blessings of gay relationships may not be appropriate in each and every situation not...

February 05, 2018

Old Rite Wreaks Havoc at Mariawald

By Cameron Doody and Hendro Munsterman Pundits on the far right skewed it as the...

February 01, 2018

The Focus of the Pope’s Lenten Retreat

L'Osservatore Romano announced last Saturday that Pope Francis has chosen the Portuguese priest poet Father...

January 2018

January 29, 2018

Anti-Semitic Mass Reveals Problems in Hungarian Church

Does the Hungarian Catholic Church have a problem with anti-Semitism? The question returned to the...

January 25, 2018

What’s the Pope’s Alternative to “Fake News”?

A 'no' from Pope Francis this Wednesday to "fake news", and a 'yes' to a...

January 22, 2018

‘La Civiltà Cattolica’ Demolishes the “Benedict Option”

Further evidence that the highest circles of the Church disapprove strongly of the "Benedict option",...

January 18, 2018

IR Expert: Church Losing Culture Wars “All Over the Continent”

All over Europe today, "religion plays a role of the epicenter of cultural resistance to...

January 15, 2018

Borghesi: “Pope’s Opponents Are The Ones Sowing Confusion”

A devastating rebuke last week of Pope Francis' critics by the Italian philosopher Massimo Borghesi....