A legal battle is looming in New York over the using of a large cross as part of a 9/11 memorial. The cross made of one of the twin tower’s T-beams became a national symbol in the days after the 2001 attacks, however a national group, American Atheists is suing one of the 9/11 memorial Read more
Paraguay president Federico Franco recently interrupted the homily of Misiones Bishop, Mario Melanio Medina, in a parish church in Villa Florida. The president did not agree with the bishop’s comments on genetically modified crops. In his homily, Bishop Medina criticised the Paraguay government for allowing the importation of genetically altered corn and cotton seeds. Bishop Medina said Read more
Parents in Scotland will be powerless to prevent their children from being taught about gay marriage and teachers could be forced out of their jobs if they fail to teach the normality of gay marriage. These are just some of the claims made by leading human rights lawyer, Aidan O’Neill QC, in a legal opinion Read more
Bishop Robert Finn is the first US Catholic bishop to be convicted of a misdemeanour for failing to report suspected child abuse. Finn, the Bishop of Kansas City – St Joseph, Missouri has been sentenced to two years probation and will not serve any jail time, nor pay a fine. The offence carried a maximum Read more
The Anglican Church is planning to appoint a ‘presidential’ figure to oversee the day-to-day running of the Church. Dr Rowan Williams made the plans known in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, saying the ‘president’ would oversee the Anglican communion and its 77 million members, leaving the Archbishop of Canterbury free to concentrate on running Read more
The U.S. Catholic bishops’ point man on sexual abuse, Bishop R. Daniel Conlon of Joliet, paints a gloomy picture of the Church’s handling of sexual abuse, saying the church’s credibility is “shredded”. Conlon compared the situation to the Reformation, when “the episcopacy, the regular clergy, even the papacy were discredited.” Bishop Conlon last month told a conference of Read more
The message of Melkite Patriarch Gregory III Laham, the spiritual head of Lebanon’s second largest Catholic community, has mysteriously disappeared from a Catholic website, just hours after if first appeared, reports Vatican Insider. Patriarch Gregory III Laham will be the first to address the pope during a welcome ceremony and according to his disappeared statement will ask Read more
For the progressive Church, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, or the “Eternal Pope in Waiting” represents a Catholic Church and papacy that never was, whereas Church conservatives saw him as a “nightmare”. As believers and non-believers alike almost brought Milan to a halt as they bid farewell to their popular pastor, his final interview, to his Read more
Those who believe in Hell are less likely transgress again leading to lower crime rates. So concludes a study by by Azim Shiraf at the University of Oregon and Mijke Rhemtulla at the University of Kansas who compared rates of crime with rates of believe in heaven and hell in 67 countries. The study acknowledged Read more
There are at least 20 people involved in stealing and leaking compromising Vatican documents. The claim comes from the Papal Butler, Paolo Gabriele, who recently parted ways with his lawyer, and who has been charged with aggravated thief and is likely to be tried for his part in Vatileaks scandal at the Vatican next month. Despite Read more