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November 4, 2015

News 'VatiLeaks' 2015: Books claim strong resistance to pope's finance reform

Merchants in the Temple is Italain journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi's second book based on leaked documents from the Vatican. Photo courtesy of Catholic News Service.

VATICAN CITY - Financial wrongdoing at the Vatican, leaked documents and arrests by the Vatican police may make it seem like 2012 all over again, but the situation -- while serious -- is not the breach of papal privacy that the earlier "VatiLeaks" scandal was.

Published in International
October 17, 2014

Bishops’ debate over gays: Lost in translation?

Cardinals Mauro Piacenza, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, Timothy M. Dolan of New York, and Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, talk as they walk through Paul VI hall before the morning session of the extrao rdinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 16.

VATICAN CITY - The tug-of-war at the Vatican over calls for the Catholic Church to be more open to gays and cohabiting couples intensified Oct. 16 as conservative bishops sought to rein in or renounce draft language they feared might condone lifestyles not in accord with Church teachings.

Published in Faith
May 1, 2014

Don’t equate sexual abuse of minors with torture, Vatican tells UN

Members of the U.S.-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP hold portraits of themselves as youths as they address the media during a protest outside St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland in this picture dated Sept. 15 2010. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, which represents 18,000 victims, said that hundreds of children and adults were still being “sexually violated, tortured and assaulted” by Catholic priests.

VATICAN CITY - As Vatican representatives prepare to testify before a United Nations inquiry into torture next week, a senior official warned investigators that it would be “deceptive” to link torture with the pedophilia scandals that have swept the Catholic Church.

Published in Vatican