Mar 17, 2010
An exaggerated media onslaught against the Roman Catholic Church over clerical sexual abuse is being orchestrated in hell, a Vatican official says.
Speaking to Newsmax today on condition of anonymity, the official stressed that, although the allegations of clerical...
Mar 9, 2010
An explosive story last week that Italian police had caught a ceremonial official at the Vatican running a homosexual prostitution ring came as little surprise to many in Italy.
La Repubblica newspaper revealed that Angelo Balducci, a papal gentiluomini (an usher who...
Mar 1, 2010
A senior Vatican official close to Pope Benedict XVI has likened U.S. President Barack Obama to the socialist Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, saying the two have the same misconceived idea of freedom.
Spanish Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, whose...
Feb 26, 2010
The news has escaped much of the mass media but Christian families are leaving the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in droves to escape a concerted campaign of violence and intimidation.
Chaldean Bishop Emil Shimoun Nona has said that Mosul is experiencing a humanitarian...
Feb 25, 2010
While officials from the United Nations and other organizations have been conspicuously trying to resolve the conflict in Darfur, a Catholic lay association based in Rome has been doing its bit to help broker peace.
Thanks in part to the efforts of the Sant'Egidio lay...
Feb 11, 2010
The Vatican has issued a rare public statement forcefully denying any involvement in a scandal that prompted the resignation of a Catholic newspaper editor last year.
After two weeks of rumours and intrigue mostly in the Italian press claiming that a high ranking Vatican...
Feb 3, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has scored a significant victory in the battle against what he sees as a secular intolerance of religion afflicting many Western societies.
The British government today backed down from pursuing parts of its Equality Bill, legislation which would have...
Jan 20, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has completed his second book on Jesus, according to an American rabbi who is a close friend of the Pope.
Once published, the book will mark the Pope's most recent attempt to try to help people encounter Jesus in their everyday lives and enter into a...