Media FAIL: Vatican admits it doctored photo of letter from Benedict — UPDATED
From AP: The Vatican admitted that it altered a photo sent to the media of a letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI about Pope Francis. The manipulation changed the meaning of the image in a way that...
View ArticleA beautiful new resource: Vatican releases text for Way of the Cross written...
From the Holy See’s website: The texts of the meditations on the fourteen stations of the Via Crucis rite of this year were written by fifteen young people, aged between 16 and 27 years. Therefore,...
View ArticleVatican: ‘We don’t want to preclude anything’ regarding women or married...
From Crux: At a press conference on the summit of bishops focusing on the Pan-Amazonian people and region set for October 2019, Vatican officials did not close the door to the possibility of opening...
View ArticleThis Christmas, the Vatican Nativity scene will be made of sand
From CNS: Although sand castles and sculptures usually conjure up images of hot summers on the beach, the Vatican will unveil a massive Nativity scene made entirely of sand during the cold Roman...
View ArticlePope Francis Names Cardinal Farrell as Camerlengo
The news dropped in the Vatican bulletin this morning: The Pope has nominated Cardinal Jerin [Kevin] Joseph Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life, as the Camerlengo of...
View ArticleThe Next Scandal: Vatican Confirms Secret Rules for Handling ‘The Children of...
From The New York Times: The Vatican has confirmed, apparently for the first time, that its department overseeing the world’s priests has general guidelines for what to do when clerics break celibacy...
View Article‘You Have to Exonerate the Human Being’: How They Handle Sex Abuse Cases in...
Not all abusers are treated the same way in every country, as The Wall Street Journal makes clear: One Sunday morning last year, the Rev. Jacek Wentczuk stood before his congregation and made a...
View ArticleBREAKING: Pope Francis Opens Vatican Archives on Pius XII, Declaring ‘The...
From remarks by Pope Francis this morning to “superiors, collaborators, and employees” of the Vatican Secret Archive, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the election of Pius XII: By wish of Pope...
View ArticleReport: In a First, Pope Francis To Name Lay Woman to Head Vatican Dicastery,...
Details (translated): Continuing his journey of naming lay people in important structures of the Vatican, Pope Francis will designate, for the first time in history, a woman to lead a Vatican...
View ArticleVatican to Launch Weekly News Program — in Latin
From CNS: A weekly news program about the pope and the Vatican will now be offered in Latin, the official language of the Holy See. The five-minute news flash “will be an actual, real news broadcast...
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