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June 2021

June 25, 2021

Vatican says Italy’s anti-discrimination bill is a threat to its freedom

ITALY is currently debating a bill – approved by the Chamber of Deputies last November...

June 03, 2021

US embassy’s Pride flag in the Vatican is ‘offensive to all Catholics’

RESPONSE across all social media platforms 'has been overwhelmingly negative' following the Biden administration's decision...

June 01, 2021

Long time coming: Vatican announces a new sexual abuse law

A REVIEW of existing Catholic Church laws regarding clerical abuse, led by Archbishop Filippo Iannone,...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

‘The Vatican stole my Jesus image’ says artist in a lawsuit

WHEN the Vatican unveiled a new Easter stamp last year, it clearly hadn't considered copyright...

May 19, 2021

‘What a load of piffle’ – priests can bless plants & pets but not gays

A ROW simmering in Germany over same-sex church blessings is fast reaching boiling point as...

March 2021

March 25, 2021

Pope orders pay cuts to offset millions lost due to COVID-19

IN February this year, Team Francis brought the Pope grim tidings: God was a woman...

January 2021

January 23, 2021

Vatican money men jailed for embezzling millions

FURTHER proof that Catholicism and crime go together like Bonnie and Clyde emerged this week...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Op-ed: Paris trial sent an appalling message to clerical abusers

LAST month, the Pope’s former Ambassador to France, ex-Papal Nuncio Luigi Ventura, above, was tried...

December 20, 2020

Ex-jailbird praises ‘barbarian’ Trump as a ‘champion’ of Christianity

FAR-RIGHT news outlet, The Daily Caller – which adoringly supported Trump throughout his train-wreck of...

December 15, 2020

Toss Vatican’s Thoroughly Modern Mary into the River Tiber

NATIVITY scene traditionalists have taken to social media to scream bloody murder over the Vatican's...

October 2020

October 15, 2020

Vatican consultant lavished secret diplomacy cash on luxury goods

CECILIA Marogna, an 'expert in geopolitics and parallel diplomacy' who was given €500,000 ($588,000) by...

October 15, 2020

Violent sexual abuse in the Vatican: two priests put on trial

CATHOLIC priest Gabriele Martinelli, above, accused of repeatedly raping a pupil at a pre-seminary, as...

September 2020

September 25, 2020

Saint-creating cardinal resigns. He himself, apparently, is no saint.

ITALIAN Cardinal Angelo Becciu, above, Prefect of the Congregation of the Cause of the Saints...

September 07, 2020

Vatican diplomat honoured by Ratzinger faces abuse investigations

A TWO-pronged investigation was launched today (Monday) into claims that a once high-ranking Vatican diplomat...

August 2020

August 18, 2020

Ex-jailbird Pell: Vatican has swept out ‘most, if not all of its crooks’

CARDINAL George Pell, above, who spent 400 days in an Australian prison before having his...

July 2020

July 20, 2020

‘Rogue’ exorcists are encroaching on the turf of ‘genuine’ ones

THE International Association of Exorcists, founded in 1990 by a group of six priests – ...

July 17, 2020

Eeek, naked bodies on Twitter! Vatican archbishop blasted.

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia has form for annoying Catholic traditionalists who find nudity abhorrent. A while...

April 2020

April 22, 2020

Italian police ‘breach international law’ by halting church services

AFTER police interrupted a Mass conducted in defiance of of Italy's COVID-19 lockdown measures, Catholic...

April 17, 2020

‘Real holy water’: Vatican axes Pope’s whisky quip.

AT the weekend BBC viewers will be treated to a documentary about trainee Catholic priests...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

‘Furious’ Pope robs Ratzinger of his ‘gorgeous’ companion

FOR almost 20 years, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has had pretty boy Archbishop Georg Gänswein...

December 2019

December 07, 2019

Shock, horror: Vatican invested €1-m in a bio-pic featuring gay sex

THE Vatican is reportedly investigating how €1-million of its funds was given towards the production...

October 2019

October 26, 2019

God loves shiny things – and Catholics are great at providing them

ALL BUT lost in all the heat and fury generated by the Vatican's 'syncretic' Amazon...

October 22, 2019

Catholic vandals target Amazonian statues gifted to the Pope

THE bellyaching among conservative Catholics has hardly ceased since Pope Francis, together with Amazonian indigenous...

October 07, 2019

Mafia-busting magistrate brought in to probe Vatican institutions

A TOP Italian anti-Mafia magistrate was brought out of retirement last week to head a...

August 2019

August 23, 2019

World’s oldest living archbishop stands accused of sexual abuse

ARCHBISHOP Bernardino Piñera, 103, the uncle of Chile’s billionaire President Sebastian Piñera, is being investigated by...

August 21, 2019

Elated crowds cheer as Cardinal Pell loses High Court appeal

'A wonderful day for survivors' is how one woman greeted news today that Cardinal George...

July 2019

July 02, 2019

Priests owe it to God not to report abuse confessions

AN intransigent Vatican is digging its heels in over pressure to have priests report sexual...

June 2019

June 16, 2019

Papal ambassadors admonished for bad-mouthing Pope Francis

THE Pope believes that some of his ambassadors (nuncios) are stabbing him in the back...

June 15, 2019

Vatican’s new sexuality document opens up a fresh can of worms

ON Monday the Congregation for Catholic Education published the grandly titled Male and Female He...

April 2019

April 10, 2019

Anti-vax student sues Kentucky health authority – and loses

JEROME Kunkel, 18, above, refused to to be vaccinated against chickenpox on religious grounds, wrongly...