Ghost of the Papal States haunts Vatican’s ‘Trial of the Century’
The conflation of executive and judicial authority directly contradicts the Catholic Church’s own social teaching.
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by bcadmin | Jun 5, 2022 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Catholic social teaching, London financial scandal, News, News Analysis, Papal States, Vatican trial | 0 |
The conflation of executive and judicial authority directly contradicts the Catholic Church’s own social teaching.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 1, 2022 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal States, Pope Paul VI, Vatican trial | 0 |
Popes have made their peace with the separation of powers ad extra, but they have yet to do so ad intra.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 3, 2021 | Associated Press, Church History, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Italy, News, Papal States, Rome | 0 |
A blaze, possibly sparked by a gas canister explosion, destroyed part of an historic bridge spanning the Tiber River in Rome before firefighters extinguished the flames early Sunday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 14, 2021 | atheism, Cardinal Angelo Comastri, Christopher Hitchens, Giosué Carducci, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal States, Risorgimento | 0 |
Giosué Carducci, the poet most identified with the risorgimento uprising in the late 19th century, and an ardent atheist and anti-cleric who once composed a celebrated “Hymn to Satan,” reportedly confessed his sins thirty years later and went to his death a faithful Catholic, albeit without announcing his change of heart.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 9, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church History, News, Papal States, Pope Pius IX, Vaccinations, Vatican, Vatican City State | 0 |
When popes were king, they ordered all their subjects in the Papal States to be vaccinated, using punishments and rewards to convince the hesitant and making sure the poor and the prisoners were inoculated as well.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 7, 2021 | COVID pandemic, News, Papal States, U.S. & World News, Vaccinated, vaccination | 0 |
When popes were king, they ordered all their subjects in the Papal States to be vaccinated, using punishments and rewards to convince the hesitant and making sure the poor and the prisoners were inoculated as well.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 25, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church History, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Papal States, Plague, Vatican | 0 |
The church has had centuries of experience with the do’s and don’ts during a pandemic — and far from being antagonistic, it has often been at the forefront of endorsing public health measures considered to be the most effective at the time for containing contagion.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 5, 2020 | Battista Montini, Italy, News, Papal States, Rome, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The loss of the papal states and the declaration of Rome as the capital of a united Italy 150 years ago was a “providential” event that changed the city and the church, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Italy, Lateran Pacts, Lateran treaty, News, Papal States, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
The loss of the papal states and the declaration of Rome as the capital of a united Italy 150 years ago was a “providential” event that changed the city and the Church, Pope Francis said.
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