Vatican megatrial to resume amid push for financial reform
The Vatican’s megatrial for the prosecution of financial crime is set to begin in October, featuring several big players indicted amid Pope Francis’s broader reform efforts.
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Posted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican finances, Vatican trial |
The Vatican’s megatrial for the prosecution of financial crime is set to begin in October, featuring several big players indicted amid Pope Francis’s broader reform efforts.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Church in Europe, lead, Mexico, News, Pope Francis, Spain, Vox |
Two major Spanish right-wing political movements are going after Pope Francis for “apologizing in the name of others.”
Read MoreCardinal Angelo Becciu has said that he personally authorized the transfer of almost $1.5 million to an Australian security firm in 2017-2018, but has declined to explain the reason for the payment.
Cardinal Becciu—whose Vatican trial on financi…
Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City has spoken out against the use of capital punishment in Oklahoma, where officials have scheduled seven executions in the next five months. In an op-ed for the Oklahoman, the archbishop said: “Our state bea…
Read MoreThe future prospects of the Christian churches in the Middle East are “not primarily a question of numbers—even if numbers are important—but rather a question of faith,” said Archbishop Michel Sabbah, the retired Latin-rite Patr…
Read MorePope Francis made a light-hearted reference to the end of his pontificate when an Italian visit invited him to join in a diocesan anniversary celebration. Bishop Giuseppe La Placa of Ragusa asked the Pontiff if he might visit the diocese for its 75th a…
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A group of California taxpayers and school parents is asking the Superior Court of California for a restraining order to block the state’s public schools from using prayers to Aztec and Yoruba gods as a […]
Read MoreWhile we were on our annual week-long camping trip with friends, our daughter fractured her elbow. The girls were jumping from bed to bed in a cabin we temporarily rented until the rain let up so we could set up our tents. Down she came on her elbow, resulting in the fracture. After her arm […]
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Angels, Best of Week, Featured, guardian angels, News, Orthodoxy, Sophia Excerpts |
Dear Father Kerper: A friend of mine, who is a very devout Catholic,always talks about her so-called Guardian Angel. I heard about these angels when I was a child. Now that I’m an adult I regard them as legends or myths made up to make children feel safe. Are Guardian Angels real? Is there anything […]
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | 2021, Columns, Declaration of Independence equality, equality v. equity, FAQs, Francis X. Maier'a "Voodoo and Its Enchantments", George Orwell, James V. Schall, Josef Pieper, magic nouns, News, Newspeak, Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing |
Francis X. Maier: Language shapes thought. Thought shapes choices and actions. Choices and actions shape and reshape the world.
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Perhaps you’ve found yourself caught in the suffocating everydayness of life. Get up, eat breakfast, go to work, pick up the kids, make dinner, watch TV, go to bed. Wash, rinse, repeat. Every morning’s alarm might as well be the same. Even if the content of each day satisfies in general, the unrelenting sameness slowly […]
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Rather than proving that the U.S. is restricting abortion while a series of countries liberalize their abortion laws, the Post…
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Pope Francis is expected to receive Joe Biden on Oct. 29, in the U.S. president’s first official visit to the…
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Read MoreI struck the board, and cried, “No more; I will abroad! What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines…
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The devil gets a lot of play in our media-driven culture: some of it factual; most of it fiction. But…
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Pope Francis has named Long Island’s own Bishop Robert Brennan – the 59 year-old head of Ohio’s capital church in…
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Read MoreBorn in Dalmatia of a Christian, Jerome (345-420) was baptized in Rome, while taking his classical courses. He then studied under the best masters in foreign cities. But the Church had need of this extraordinarily gifted man. Jerome heard and obeyed th…
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St. Jerome (Priest and Doctor of the Church) was one of the greatest scholars in the Church’s history. Thoroughly learned in languages and Scripture, he learned Hebrew in Antioch, from a Jewish rabbi. He then went to Constantinople, where he studied under St. Gregory of Nazianzus. Ordained a priest, from 382-385 he served as secretary […]
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