The Knights of Malta have suspended the author of a book accusing Pope Francis of governing the Church like a Latin American dictator. The lay religious order has distanced itself from the book, which members describe as “biased”. In his book “The Dictator Pope”, Henry Sire describes Francis as an “authoritarian, manipulative and politically partisan Read more
An ultra conservative movement in the US which has links to the Evangelical Churches and to conservative economists, is behind the opposition to Pope Francis according Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager. He is the recently reinstated Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta. “What the pope says about the world economy naturally angers them and they are Read more
Pope Francis’ transfer of Cardinal Raymond Burke on Saturday from being the Vatican’s “chief justice” to a mere cardinal-protector of the Knights of Malta has intensified yet more irresponsible talk of schism within the Catholic church. And top prize for the person most responsible for being irresponsible goes to none other than the man wearing Read more
After a long recruitment search, a German lawyer has been headhunted to become president of the Vatican Bank, an institution troubled in the past by scandal and more recently by complaints about inadequate safeguards against money-laundering. Ernst von Freyberg is currently chairman of the Blohm+Voss Group, a Hamburg-based company that builds and repairs yachts and Read more