Vatican Watch

Jeanne Smits reports for LifeSiteNews : Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan, was in France for a short visit at the end of last month. He sat down with LifeSite to answer our questions on the present COVID-19 crisis, which Bishop Schneider has resulted in a “sanitary Read more

  Ed Condon  reports for CNA : An investment fund created for the Holy See Secretariat of State to invest Church assets was used to purchase millions in a bond of debt products issued by companies, some with alleged mafia links. Both the investment fund and the bond, which packaged Read more

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò writes for OnePeterFive : Much has been written in recent days about yet another Vatican scandal, this time involving Cardinal Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Faced with accusations that still have to be proven, Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s response seemed to be Read more

William Mahoney, Ph.D.  reports for ChurchMilitant.com : A clergy watchdog group is calling on Catholics to boycott Peter’s Pence this weekend. Complicit Clergy (CC), a group of lay Catholics who monitor corruption in the visible Church, are denouncing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for encouraging the faithful to Read more

Martina Moyski  reports for ChurchMilitant.com : A prominent prelate is alerting the faithful to the clear and present dangers of LGBT ideology and its end game.   LGBT iconography: Man holding “The Rainbow Madonna”   German cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued his warning in Read more

    Francesco Boezi  : Archbishop Viganò, why did you write a letter in favor of President Trump? On August 14, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI let me know that it was his conviction that at that moment my providential position was the Nunciature in the United States of America. This Read more

Marco Tosatti blogs : Dear readers of Stilum Curiae, our contributor “Martian Observer” was struck, amazed, and scandalized by the interview that Cardinal Maradiaga gave to  Repubblica. To everything you say, Martian Observer, I would like add only one observation of my own. Already in 2013 Pope Bergoglio decided – with Read more

Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com : In a feat of consummate diplomatic éclat, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo chastened Pope Francis on China, referring repeatedly to the “bold moral witness” of Pope John Paul II against communism.   Pompeo meets Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte in Rome   “Every serious Read more