The Vatican’s sports office has paid tribute to Chelsea striker Didier Drogba after the Catholic soccer star gave credit to God for his team’s UEFA Champions League victory. Father Kevin Lixey, the director of the Vatican’s Office of Church and Sport, explained that “if they give thanks to God for their talents, it is good Read more
The ordination of women as Church of England bishops may still be in doubt after a concession to traditional Anglicans. Even those who campaigned for women to be allowed to be a part of the episcopacy may now themselves vote against the proposal. The English Church’s House of Bishops gave its approval to the proposed Read more
Confidential letters and memos to and from Pope Benedict and his personal secretary have just been published in a book by Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi entitled “His Holinesss”. The book refers to power struggles and corruption inside the Holy See and the approach of its top banker who has been under scrutiny. Vatican spokesman Rev. Read more
After a Vatican report on the American Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) caused an uproar particularly in the popular press, Pope Benedict offered an olive branch. Addressing visiting U.S. Bishops he said, “I wish to reaffirm my deep gratitude for the example of fidelity and self-sacrifice given by many consecrated women in your country.” Read more
The Catholic and Anglican Bishops of South Sudan are asking the International community for a “more balanced “position on the conflict that is setting their country against Sudan. “We believe that it is important that our friends in the International community assume a more balanced position. The attitude of United Nations and of the greater Read more
The author of “The Exorcist” and who used Georgetown University in this book, is now planning to sue the school for not being Catholic enough. William Peter Blatty, a graduate of Georgetown was upset at the university’s invitation to Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Sergice Secretary. She has been criticised by some Catholics for Read more
Archbishop Mark Coleridge was installed as the seventh Bishop and sixth Archbishop of Brisbane on May 11. He indicated that he is determined to lead in facing “the Church’s greatest challenge in these times”. Preaching during his Liturgical Reception of him as Archbishop of Brisbane in the Cathedral of St Stephen he said, “Our greatest Read more
Italian gangster Antonio Mancini has said that the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee was killed in 1983 because a criminal gang was irate over the loss of funds deposited in the Vatican bank. Emanuela Orlandi was 15 when she disappeared in 1983 after leaving her family’s Vatican City apartment to go to a music Read more
Tom Savage, the chairman of Ireland’s Public Service broadcaster RTÉ says that it is inexplicable that the “Mission to Prey” item in Prime Time Investigates programme was allowed to air. The programme wrongfully accused Fr Reynolds of raping a woman and fathering a child in Kenya while a missionary 30 years ago. Referring to the findings Read more
The personal ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, under the patronage of St Augustine of Canterbury, will be established on June 15. It will be Australia’s first. A Personal Ordinariate is a church structure for particular groups of people who wish to enter into communion with the Catholic Church. In 2009 Pope Benedict Read more