Phil Lawler writes for CatholicCulture.org : At last, decisive action to address financial corruption at the Vatican! At last, a ranking prelate has been held accountable! After years of promising reforms and accountability—while leaving effective power in the hands of those who opposed reform—Pope Francis has finally broken the pattern. Consider the Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com : A top cardinal, favored by Pope Francis while implicated in the Vatican’s most sensational financial scandal in recent history, has quit after he revealed he was fired by the pontiff. Becciu speaking to the press on Friday after his sacking On Thursday Read more
Catholic World News reports : Cardinal George Pell, who served as the prefect of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy from 2014 to 2019, welcomed the resignation of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu. “The Holy Father was elected to clean up Vatican finances,” Cardinal Pell said in a statement sent to Read more
“Corruptio optimi pessima.” – Saint Gregory the Great Carlo Maria Viganò, writes : Seeking to find any coherence of the recent action of the Society of Jesus with the original intentions of Saint Ignatius of Loyola is an arduous if not impossible task, to the point that in hindsight Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com : Italy’s top Muslim leader, whose organization supports Pope Francis’ pact with Islam, is causing acute embarrassment to Catholic apologists of interfaith dialogue after he insulted Jews and Christians as heretics. Yassine Baradai (left) at an interfaith dialogue meeting Yassine Baradai, national secretary of the Union of Read more
Steve Skojec writes for OnePeterFive :Allow me to briefly bury the lede. I’ve often said that I’m not a journalist, I’m a commentator, and as such, I don’t make an attempt to hide my bias in the interest of the expected, but in most cases fictitious, ideal of journalistic objectivity. Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com : The Vatican has categorically reiterated its rejection of German-Catholic demands for intercommunion, asserting that “significant doctrinal differences” with Protestants “are still so great that they currently exclude reciprocal participation” in the Eucharist. Bp. Georg Bätzing is leading the German rebellion The Congregation for Read more
Martin Bürger reports for LifeSiteNews : The key organization of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, officially called Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, has removed a section of its website calling for a disruption of “the Western-prescribed nuclear family.” Instead of a website showing “What We Believe,” the BLM Read more