A high profile United States sex abuse lawyer, Jeffrey Anderson, has withdrawn a sex abuse case which held responsible Pope Benedict and senior church officials. The Vatican’s US attorney, Jeffrey S. Lena, welcomed the decision saying the case was “held together by no more than a mendacious web of allegations of internal conspiracy.” The case was filed at the Read more
The day before Cardinal Joseph Ratziner was elected pope, the US embassy at the Vatican said he appeared to lack sufficient support. The statement was made in an unclassified diplomatic cable, and is one of many documents made public in the latest release of Wikileaks documents. “Despite a week of media speculation suggesting that German Read more
Pope Benedict told his former students meeting to discuss the new evangelisation, that his generation, cradle Catholics did not evangelise enough. Gathered for their annual seminar with the pontiff at Castel Gandolfo, Benedict said. “We, who have been able to know [Christ] since our youth, may we ask forgiveness because we bring so little of Read more