Pope: recent stealing of documents was a crime Vatican Radio: "" Pope Francis responds to the latest PR crisis with a frontal assault that would have been uncharacteristic of previous papacies. John Allen has a good analysis of the recent leaks of... [Continue Reading]
Pope Benedict’s new Apostolic Exhortation based on the work of the Synod on the Eucharist in October 2005 was released by the Vatican this morning under the title “Sacramentum Caritas” (that’s the link to the document in... [Continue Reading]
Finally, the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation is coming! The document, entitled “Sacramentum Caritatis,” will be released at the Vatican next Tuesday, March 13. This is the second major document of Pope Benedict’s pontificate and... [Continue Reading]
Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, this year’s preacher of the papal Lenten retreat, said this week that excesses of ecumenism and a tendency to downplay Christ’s sacrifice are signs of the Antichrist. In a meditation preached during the Lenten... [Continue Reading]
The Associated Press is making a big deal out of a PBS station owned by a diocese in Texas not showing a Frontline documentary called “Hand of God” that discusses the Scandal in Boston. public television station owned by the Roman... [Continue Reading]
A friend is attending the US bishops' meeting in Baltimore this week and sent along the following. (One must find ways to keep oneself amused... and awake.) These are all actual words used by the bishops from the last hour of the bishops’ meeting... [Continue Reading]
You see in some places reference to a breaking news story from LifeSite that the US bishops at their meeting this month will issue a document telling Catholics who dissent from Church teaching on certain matters that they should not receive... [Continue Reading]
Charlotte Allen reviews “Deliver Us from Evil,” the documentary on the Oliver O’Grady pedophile priest case. Allen says that the basic premise is good—to examine how a bishop and a hierarchy could allow one sick man to prey... [Continue Reading]
Apparently, for the first time today, the Catholic Church has condemned abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and other misuses of sexuality and procreation, at least if the breathless reports by the mainstream media are to be believed. What... [Continue Reading]
Here is a translation of the document leaked by an Italian news agency today: Update: The whole translation has been tweaked and improved. The official translation will probably vary a little bit, but I think this is fairly accurate and faithful to... [Continue Reading]