From the Editor’s Desk, Michael J. Matt considers the good, bad and ugly fallout from Election 2020. Here’s something: Why did JFK have to promise never to let the Vatican influence him as a Catholic president, while Joe Biden is vowing to let Francis do just that? By the way, Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com — The McCarrick report is portraying Pope Francis as the hero who immediately dismissed the homopredator prelate on receiving credible complaints while painting whistleblower Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò as the villain, whose reports of complaints to the pope regarding Theodore McCarrick are disputed. The long-awaited 450-page Read more
The official Report of the Holy See regarding the McCarrick case has been made public. Before I express myself on its merit, I will take time to analyze its content. However, I cannot fail to note the surreal operation of mystification regarding who are the ones responsible for covering up Read more
Christine Niles reportS for ChurchMilitant .com – Newly leaked documents reveal the scope and magnitude of the financial scandal engulfing the Vatican, implicating both Cdl. Pietro Parolin, Secretariat of State, and his deputy, Abp. Edgar Peña Parra, considered, respectively, the second- and third-most powerful men in Rome. A page from leaked Vatican Read more
The world in which we find ourselves living is, to use an expression from the Gospel, “in se divisum” (Mt 12:25). This division, it seems to me, consists of a split between reality and fiction: objective reality on one side, and the fiction of the media on the other. This Read more
— Although Pope Francis’ new encyclical Fratelli Tutti contains positive elements, overall it “lacks a clearly supernatural horizon” and the proclamation of the truth that Christ is the “indispensable source of true fraternity,” Bishop Athanasius Schneider has said. In an exclusive interview with The Remnant (see full text below), the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, Read more
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William Mahoney, Ph.D. reports for ChurchMilitant.com – Two priests will stand a criminal Church trial this week — one for homosexual rape of at least one minor when a seminarian and the other for cover-up as a superior. Fr. Gabriele Martinelli Father Gabriele Martinelli will appear before a Vatican criminal court on Thursday Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com : The Vatican City State Mint has issued a 10-euro silver coin depicting “Mother Earth” — an image designed for World Earth Day by Bergamo-born sculptor and engraver Luigi Oldani. Ten euro coin depicting “Mother Earth” While the Numismatic Chronicle interpreted the icon as Madre Terra (Mother Earth), Read more