Fake, recycled or invented? A video message of Pope Francis at Italy’s famous music festival two days ago has provoked a new mess that highlights the failure of Vatican communication.

With letter to US bishops Pope declares war on Trump
In an unprecedented letter to the US bishops, Pope Francis attacks US policy against illegal immigration and invites Catholics to do the same. A purely political attack on Trump, forgetting that Biden and Obama record on immigration were even worse.

Final sentence and 'flight to Rome', the Zanchetta scandal persists
Four years and six months for the Argentinean bishop protected by Pope Francis. For the judges, he is in Rome undergoing treatment at the Gemelli hospital, but no one has seen him. Meanwhile, in Argentina, the faithful are protesting to his successor about unheard appeals. The testimonies of the victims.

Lourdes doctor: 'This is how 71st miracle was recognised'
This is the 71st officially recognised miracle by grace of Our Lady of Lourdes: the healing of John Traynor, an English sailor paralysed in both legs, who was cured during a pilgrimage to Lourdes in 1923. Dr Alessandro de Franciscis, director of the Medical Records Office, explains to Niedziela how this recognition came about - 101 years later.
Ukraine, behind Zelensky’s offer of rare earths to Trump
Ukraine is rich in rare earths and China has started restricting its exports to the US. Now Trump needs alternative sources which makes the precious materials a bargaining chip for Zelensky to receive more US aid.
On 7 February 1945, twelve Franciscans from the convent of Široki Brijeg were slaughtered by Tito’s partisans. By the end of the Second World War, 66 Franciscans had been killed in the Province of Herzegovina alone. The communists wrongly thought killing them would destroy the Catholic culture of the people educated in Široki Brijeg. But the blood of these martyrs has become the seed for new vocations.
Trump threatens everyone. But the US cannot take on the world.
Threats to Denmark over Greenland, tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, Europe to be hit next. Now, he alienates Arab allies by promising to empty Gaza. Trump can’t win by upsetting everyone.
Suspicion bishops’ in fighting lies behind Cipriani case
British data confirms homosexuality is not genetic
Post-abortion trauma, a path to healing
Japan in demographic decline, porn is to blame
Sexual scandals in Benedictine monastery blocks Cardinal Schönborn’s succession
Dom Bernhard Eckerstorfer's long-awaited promotion to the chair of Vienna was aborted probably due to some links to the affair of Dom Quartier, a monk accused of sexually abusing another male.
No to a Wojtyła museum: Tusk's government rejects Christianity
The Polish Ministry of Culture is attempting to boycott the inauguration of the Museum of Memory and Identity dedicated to Saint John Paul II. Yet another demonstration of the anti-clerical line of Tusk and co, who are spending 166 million euros on yet another museum...
Church's gender revolution mirrored in film Conclave
Women who become bishops' delegates, nuns who consider the distinction between men and women outdated, cardinals who promote the LGBT agenda, homo and trans organisations at home in the Vatican. This is the current reality of the Church, and the film Conclave, nominated for 8 Oscars, is disturbing because it foreshadows what could happen...
Archbishop Schönborn: how the man for all seasons secured his survival
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, now 80, is retiring from ecclesiastical politics. Once known for his opposition to contraception, abortion and homosexuality at the time of John Paul II, today he is a renowned interpreter of the theological innovations introduced by Bergoglio. The tactic of going with the flow has it rewards: not being cut out.