News from the Universal Church
The Church's reasoned response over the span of 170 years signals a need for careful analysis By Paul Kengor Some 69% of American “ Millennials” (those born between 1981 and 1996) have a positive view of socialism and communism, casting millions of votes for lifetime socialist Bernie Sanders and "Democratic socialist" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez There [...]
The Vatican's Dilemma as Aggressive Globalism Continues on the March By Thomas Storck A session of the United Nations’ Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) British Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States (the Vatican’s “foreign minister”). Very recently Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations [...]
The themes of the process are "encounter, listen, and discern." But some warn that the process is flawed... By CNA (a service of EWTN News) Pope Francis visits a Roman parish in the southern suburbs of the city, meeting the children and young people of the parish (Photo Grzegorz Galazka) Pope Francis formally launched [...]
St. Irenaeus was a second-century bishop and writer revered by both Catholics and Orthodox Christians Pope Francis on October 7 said that he plans to declare St. Irenaeus of Lyon, who lived from 130 to 202, A.D. (shown in a stained glass window, right), a Doctor of the Church with the title Doctor unitatis (“Doctor of [...]
Francis reportedly has set his sights on Summorum Pontificum, which liberalized use of the extraordinary rite of the Mass By CNA/ITV staff Pope Francis, in an address to the Italian Bishops upon the opening of their national assembly on May 24, told them that a “reform” of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, which under Pope Benedict [...]
Is blessing homosexual unions another step toward schism? By CNA/ITV staff More than 100 Catholic congregations in Germany have been offering blessings to same-sex couples in recent days. The Vatican forbids it, but priests have been offering the blessings anyway Priests and Church officials in Germany thumbed their noses at the Vatican May 10 [...]
The 4-day journey to Iraq took Francis to six cities and sites In the north and south of the country. He comforted Christians harshly tried by sectarian violence, and appealed for tolerance, fraternity, and peace By Robin Gomes (Vatican News) Iraqi President Barham Salih and his wife seeing Pope Francis off at Baghdad Airport. [...]
By Thomas Storck As many globalists began to speak of the need for a “Great Reset,” Pope Francis met with a group of leading capitalists on November 11, 2019, to create a global “Council for Inclusive Capitalism.” What is it all about? What is the Pope’s role? Where in all this is the salvation brought [...]
The Vatican is reportedly weighing Cardinal Patriarch Bèchara Raï’s proposal By Giuseppe Rusconi In the main photo, a fire in Beirut’s harbor Lebanese Cardinal Patriarch Béchara Raï Little reassuring news continues to arrive from Lebanon on the country’s strength. After the resignation of the Sunni government of Hassan Diab on August 10, [...]
Confusion continues regarding Vatican finances as one cardinal (Becciu) is sacked, another (Pell) returns to Rome, a new report on the Holy See’s finances appears, and a Vatican consultant is arrested By Christina Deardurff Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu The Roman Curia of the Catholic Church released, for the first time in years, a relatively [...]
