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Questions: Is it a legitimate tool to root out moral corruption? Could it encourage blackmail? By Robert Moynihan, ITV Editor Two American journalists — J.D. Flynn and Ed Condon (photos below), who have founded a news agency called The Pillar — have warned the Vatican that governments (perhaps that of China) might obtain compromising information [...]

Cardinal Gerhard Müller laments the social agenda being pushed by the US, and says of new President Joe Biden: "I cannot support an abortion politician because he builds public housing" By Petra Lorleberg (kath.net) German Cardinal Gerhard Müller. Now retired, he was formerly in the highest doctrinal post of the Church as Prefect of the [...]

By Christina Deardurff Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to residents in Kenosha, Wis., Sept. 3, 2020, during a community meeting at Grace Lutheran Church after a week of unrest in the aftermath of the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white police officer. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters) The American columnist [...]

In December Pope Francis announced a “Year of St . Joseph” (Dec. 8, 2020-Dec. 8, 2021) to honor the Patron of the Church St Joseph with the Infant Jesus by Guido Reni By Catholic News Agency (CNA) Pope St. Joseph Francis announced on December a Year 8 of in honor of the 150th anniversary [...]

By CNA Pope Francis in October Named 13 New Cardinals. They Will Be Made Cardinals on November 28 in Rome. Some Traditional Cardinalatial Sees, Like Turin and Venice, Were Again Overlooked Pope Francis said Sunday that he will create 13 new cardinals, including Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory, at a consistory on November 28, the vigil of [...]

Fr. Charles Theodore Murr, in this Interview Concerning His Book on Mother Pascalina Lehnert, Unveils the Mysteries of the People and Events in the Church in the Mid-1900s By Kevin Symonds In this interview, Inside the Vatican talks with Fr. Charles Theodore Murr, author of The Godmother: Mother Pascalina: A Feminine Tour de Force (2017). [...]