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by bcadmin | Mar 23, 2022 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Cei, Church in Europe, immigrants and refugees, Italian bishops, lead, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti on Tuesday called for an end to the war in Ukraine and urged member states of the European Union to take in more refugees in a bid to ease the burden placed on Ukraine’s borders.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 23, 2022 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Cei, Church in Europe, immigrants and refugees, Italian bishops, lead, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti on Tuesday called for an end to the war in Ukraine and urged member states of the European Union to take in more refugees in a bid to ease the burden placed on Ukraine’s borders.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Church in Europe, lead, Mediterranean, Migration, News, peace, Pope Francis, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia, the president of the Italian bishops conference, lamented the war in Ukraine in remarks on Sunday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 20, 2021 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Church in Europe, Italian bishops, Italy, lead, News, synodality | 0 |
As Pope Francis’s Synod of Bishops on Synodality begins its initial phase at the parish level, Italy’s bishops are blending the process into their own 4-year national discussion.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 11, 2021 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Child pornography, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Italy, lead, News | 0 |
This week a new pastor was appointed for a small parish in the Archdiocese of Perugia still reeling from the arrest of their pastor earlier this summer on charges of child pornography and prostitution.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2021 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, child protection, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, clerical sexual abuse, Italian bishops, Italy, lead, News | 0 |
Days after the arrest of a parish priest in Perugia on charges of child pornography and prostitution, Italian Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, who oversees the archdiocese, visited the pastor’s community in a show of support and solidarity.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 5, 2021 | Abusive priests, Canon Law, Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Child pornography, child protection, Church in Europe, lead, News, Sicily, Umbria | 0 |
A Sicilian priest who has been serving in the Archdiocese of Perguia for nearly 10 years has been arrested on charges of child pornography and child prostitution after allegedly paying for explicit images and videos of minors sent via online chats.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 14, 2021 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Church in Europe, ddl Zan, homophobia, Italian politics, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
In the first open debate in Italian parliament of a controversial anti-homophobia bill following an unprecedented complaint from the Vatican on grounds of religious freedom, the bill survived two significant steps, and could be voted into law next week.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 27, 2021 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Cei, Dicastery for Communication, lead, News, News Analysis, pre-seminary, Vatican Press Office, Vatican reform | 0 |
The conclusion many Italians in and around the Vatican have already drawn about Pope Francis’s reform is that it’s a Gattopardesca reform, meaning one in which lots of things change so the fundamentals can remain the same, and the start of this week has done little to convince them otherwise.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 31, 2021 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Italy, News | 0 |
The Catholic Church does not take sides, but it does take to heart the life and well-being of every person and the nation as a whole, said Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia-Citta della Pieve, president of the Italian bishops’ conference.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 27, 2021 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Cei, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Italian bishops, lead, Mafia, News, Poverty, Vaccines | 0 |
The Italian bishops in their winter assembly have emphasized the need for reconciliation as citizens navigate current political upheaval, the rollout of anti-COVID vaccines, and an economic crisis forcing more and more people into the growing class of the “new poor.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 20, 2020 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
On Thursday Italian Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti was discharged from the Saint Mary of Mercy hospital in Perugia, where he serves as archbishop, after spending roughly 20 days there fighting the COVID-coronavirus.
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