Lianne Laurence reports for LifeSiteNews : The Vatican defended extending its 2018 controversial secret accord with Communist China after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that doing so will endanger the Holy See’s moral authority. Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said in a talk in Milan on Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com : Pope Francis’ abrogation of the death penalty in Fratelli Tutti is being blown sky-high by his chief dialogue partner Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayyeb — who, in accordance with Islamic jurisprudence, supports the execution of apostates from Islam. Public hanging above freshly-dug graves in a Muslim Read more
Rodney Pelletier reports for ChurchMilitant.com : Pope Francis’ 40,000 word encyclical Fratelli Tutti is the latest volley in the war for souls. He begins it with his version of an account taken from the life of St. Francis of Assisi — and he gets it totally wrong. He begins with the Read more
Edward Pentin reports for the National Catholic Register : Pope Francis has received in private audience the apostolic nuncio to Australia amid allegations that hundreds of thousands of euros were sent from the Secretariat of State to the nunciature in Canberra around the time of Cardinal George Pell’s trial for Read more
Steve Skojec writes for OnePeterFive : I’ve already written at length about the longstanding Catholic teaching about the death penalty and why Pope Francis is wrong in his attempts to change it. I won’t, therefore, rehash those arguments here. For the purposes of this particular debate, what matters most is Read more
Maike Hickson reports for LifeSiteNews : Pope Francis, in his new encyclical Fratelli Tutti, makes statements that seem to promote religious indifference and the view that different religions are in themselves good and pleasing to God. He claims that “we, the believers of the different religions, know that our witness Read more
John-Henry Weston writes for LifeSiteNews : In Fratelli Tutti, the new encyclical of Pope Francis released yesterday, pro-life Catholics are confronted with a political emphasis that ignores abortion. In line with U.S. bishops who have eschewed the fight for the right to life of unborn children, Pope Francis has explicitly Read more
Steve Skojec writers for OnePeterFive : Let me start by answering the question posed in the headline: we don’t know. YET. But things are looking pretty suspicious. I’ll get to that in more detail in just a bit. First, let’s rewind a little bit to set the scene. The year Read more
Italian press reported that EX-Cardinal Becciu is accused of sending €700,000 euros of Vatican money to Australia during Cardinal George Pell’s trial on charges of sexual abuse. The money transfer might also be associated with Becciu’s assistant: Msgr. Alberto Perlasca, whose home was raided earlier this year
Martina Moyski reports for ChurchMilitant.com : The lawyer defending senior Australian prelate Cdl. George Pell is calling for an investigation into claims that bribery was employed to sway the outcome of the sex-abuse case against his client. Cdl. Giovanni Angelo Becciu Robert Richter QC (Queen’s Counsel), defense attorney for the former archbishop of Read more