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

VATICAN

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.

SEXUAL ABUSE

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.

Interview / De Franciscis

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 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.

Ecclesia 07_02_2025 Guido Villa

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.

AUSTRIA

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. 

POLAND

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...

VATICAN

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...

VIENNA

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.