Tag: Vatican
A vaccine for all: 20 points for a fairer world
Here we have a broad horizon that evokes the principles of the Church’s Social Doctrine, such as human dignity and the preferential option for the poor, solidarity and subsidiarity, the common good and the care of our common home, justice and the universal destination of goods
Unprecedented law brings transparency to finances, Vatican official says
Although the pope's new rules are part of a larger, ongoing effort to reform Vatican finances, Bishop Galantino told Vatican News "it would be hypocritical to say" that the scandal surrounding the London property deal did not influence the new measures.
‘Ad Patris domvm’: Famed Carmelite Latinist dies at 81
Alexander Stille wrote an essay on the work of Fr Reggie published in The American Scholar and which was titled “Latin Fanatic.”
Pope removes finance, property management from Secretariat of State
However, when asked by a journalist on 25 September if the money in the Secretariat of State fund came from Peter's Pence, Cardinal Becciu said, "Yes."
George Weigel: Where is the Vatican as Chinese faithful suffer?
Joshua Wong is a young Chinese human rights activist, recently sentenced to 13 and a half months in prison on the Orwellian charge of...
Pope at Christmas: Jesus’s birth brings hope in troubling times
Pope Francis questioned why the "greatest of kings" was born "without decent accommodation, in poverty and rejection."
Archbishop welcomes CDF statement on COVID vaccines
Using these vaccines is morally licit when the "passive material cooperation" with the evil of an abortion "from which these cell lines originate is, on the part of those making use of the resulting vaccines, remote."
Away with the manger? Vatican nativity causes stir
Controversy continues over 1960s nativity at St Peter's
Especially in a year when the COVID-19 pandemic will rule out many people's favourite Christmas traditions, they...
Blaming St. John Paul II for McCarrick’s advancement misplaced
Theodore McCarrick, a priest and bishop of the Catholic Church, brazenly lied to the bishop of Rome
U.K. Abuse Inquiry Says London Cardinal, Vatican Did Not Show Leadership
The Catholic Church in England and Wales and the Vatican failed to show compassion or leadership in the fight against child abuse, a U.K. inquiry...
Victims in McCarrick report show fear, courage, anger, need for action
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican Secretariat of State's report on Theodore E. McCarrick provides a glimpse into how a number of witnesses and...
Latest McCarrick report indicates failure of Church response
Theodore E. McCarrick was able to rise up the Catholic hierarchical structure based on personal contacts
