Vatican Watch

Martin Barillas  reports for ChurchMilitant.com  — Pope Francis describes his environmental conversion in a new book by leftist Carlo Petrini, while also praising the pleasures of eating and sexual intercourse as “divine.”   Pope Francis Petrini has been described as an activist, sociologist, journalist and gastronome. Published last week, his book is titled (in translation from Italian), TerraFutura: Conversations With Pope Francis on Integral Ecology. Vatican Read more

Fr John Zuhlsdorf blogs –– Remember that “survey” that the CDF wanted to make of the world’s bishops about the use of the “Extraordinary Form” and matters concerning Summorum Pontificum? Keep your heads cool.  Don’t panic. Christian Marquant reacts post factum in the Paix Liturgique newsletter there is an interesting Read more

Steve S|kojek writes for OnePeterFive — I’ve got to be honest, I absolutely agonized over writing my piece, No More Platitudes: It’s Time to Take a Hard Look at the Crisis of Catholicism. I started writing it weeks ago. Well, I should say, I wrote the first draft of a piece that Read more

Martin Barillas reports for ChurchMilitant.com — A noted researcher is disputing assertions made by historian David I. Kertzer in Atlantic Monthly magazine that Pope Pius XII and Vatican officials conspired to prevent Jewish children from being reunited with their families in the aftermath of the Holocaust. In an extensive interview with Church Militant, historian William Doino Jr. — a principal Read more

Peter Kwasniewski writes for OnePeterFive :  The following letter exchange addresses some of the difficult questions Catholics are asking themselves today. Dear Dr. Kwasniewski, In your article “The Failure of Todaying: Abandon the Passé and Recover Tradition,” you wrote: “The reality is that the Church is already in schism. It Read more

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in his recent interview states that the premises of Vatican 2 opened the way for a Globalist Revolution against God and His will for humanity in Christ: There can be no doubt about this. If this were not the case, the substantial funding that globalist organizations, Read more

Jeanne Smits reports for LifeSiteNews : Pope Francis received 14 French ecological activists from widely different horizons on September 3, in a bid to show that the Catholic faith is not a prerequisite for commitment in favor of “Our Common Home.” Days after launching the World Day for Creation and calling Read more

There is a case now before the criminal courts of Germany in which two priests testify to gruesome sexual abuse at the hands of a then-senior official in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, Monsignor Christoph Kühn.   John-Henry Westen reports for LifeSiteNews :   At the time of Pope Benedict’s resignation Read more