Pope's video at music festival highlights Vatican's communication failure
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.
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.
Široki Brijeg, the blood of Franciscan martyrs shaped Herzegovina’s identity
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.
Suspicion bishops’ in fighting lies behind Cipriani case
The attack by the Peruvian Bishops' Conference on a media scoop describing alleged abuse by the Archbishop of Lima smacks of revenge. He protests his innocence and answers the media and his brothers point by point.
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.
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Women who become bishops' delegates, nuns who consider the distinction between men and women outdated, cardinals who promote the LGBT agenda, homo and trans organisations at home in the Vatican.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.
Scandal in Italy: bishop approves hamburger party in church
On 31 January, in Trissino (diocese of Vicenza, Italy), a hamburger party is planned in St Peter's Church, with the idea of attracting young people to church. An outraged group of faithful wrote to the local Bishop Giuliano Brugnotto. But, he approves the initiative contravening Canon Law and which profanes the house of God. More protests are expected.
Cardinal Parolin intervened to close blasphemous exhibition in Carpi diocese
A letter by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has come to light during the trial against artist Andrea Saltini and Bishop Castellucci for contempt of religion, in which he expresses his disappointment at the blasphemous exhibition on show in the diocese of Carpi. And hints that he was in favour of its early closure. The lawyer representing the faithful: “We will call Parolin as a witness”.
Cardinal Robert Sarah: 'A diabolical project against the Latin Mass'
To abolish the Tridentine Mass is 'an insult to the history of the Church'. Benedict XVI had already recalled that 'the First Vatican Council did not define the Pope as an absolute monarch'. A clear no to indifferentism: "Whoever comes to salvation outside the visible boundaries of Christianity, always and only comes to it through the merits of Christ on the Cross and not without a certain mediation of the Church". This is Cardinal Robert Sarah speaking on the occasion of the presentation of his latest book Dio Esiste? (Does God Exist?) organised by La Nuova Bussola/Daily Compass.
God's new star: cause for beatification begins for Sister Clare Crockett
The Northern Irish nun and former actress who died at the age of 33 and whose life continues to inspire and give hope to countless people, has been proclaimed a Servant of God. The postulator: testimonies "from over 50 countries" where her fame for holiness is already widespread.
