The Youth Synod’s youngest cardinal, 51-year-old Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga from Central African Republic, says the key question for the synod to answer is “What is God trying to tell us through young people?” The synod of 267 voting bishops, priests and religious brothers, plus 72 experts and observers, is meeting at the Vatican until 28 Read more
Cardinal Marc Ouellet has written an open letter to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò about the endemic corruption Viganò says has invaded the Church’s hierarchy. Noting Viganò had urged him to tell the truth about Archbishop Emeritus Theodore McCarrick, Ouellet – with Pope Francis’s permission – offered Viganò his “personal testimony, as the Prefect of the Congregation Read more
The media’s not responsible for the damage the abuse scandal has caused the church. Church leadership is responsible for this, says German Cardinal Reinhard Marx. Speaking at a news conference, Marx said the Church needs “more open and clear dialogue, accountability and a willingness to see abuse survivors and critics who push for remedy and Read more
A US Women’s Care Center embodies the unconditional love and radical hospitality that anchors and sustains a culture of life. The director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture’s comments were made when presenting the Evangelium Vitae Medal to the Indiana Women’s Care Centre. The Evangelium Vitae medal is the Center Read more
A looming scandal within a Sydney Maronite Catholic school is emerging as government-appointed auditors examine decades of payments to nuns and a multi million-dollar loan. Several sources associated with the school claim school funds may have been improperly used to subsidise the attached convent and the living expenses of nuns.Read more
Flying the Vatican flag in a ‘provocative manner’ could be a criminal act in Scotland, according to a police document. Exactly what a “provocative manner” entails is not described. The supposedly restricted Police Scotland document obtained by the Scottish Herald on Sunday, using Freedom of Information legislation, lists restrictions on displaying a number of flags and Read more
Becoming a Catholic has cost Princess Alexandra of Hanover her place in the line of succession to the British throne. Although the British 2013 Succession to the Crown Act allows heirs to the throne to marry Catholics, the law also says the acting British sovereign cannot be a Catholic. This is because the British monarch Read more
US Catholics’ confidence in Pope Francis’s ability to handle the sex abuse crisis besetting the Church is down by a two-to-one margin, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. The survey results released this week show: 30% of American Catholic adults say Francis is doing an “excellent” or a “good” job addressing the issue Read more
In a open letter ahead of the Youth Synod, 107 hundred young Scots say it would be a mistake to downplay orthodoxy. The letter, signed by 107 Catholics aged between 18 and 35, was addressed to Scottish Archbishop Leo Cushley. Cushley is one of the bishops attending the synod on young people which began this Read more
Popularly dubbed The Red Hat Report, a new organisation backed by wealthy Catholics is planning to spend $1 million over the next 12 months to evaluate cardinals across the world on the way they handle accusations of clerical sex abuse or cover-up. The Better Church Governance Group aims to compile dossiers “in the manner of Read more