Rome-Based Jesuit Journal Announces Launch of Chinese Edition
The Rome-based Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica has announced the launch of a new edition of the magazine in simplified Chinese, Vatican News reported Monday.
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Pope Francis Endorses Essay Trashing U.S. Conservative Christians
Pope Francis has publicly endorsed an essay that appeared in 2017 criticizing relations between Evangelicals and Catholics in the United States as an “ecumenism of hate.”
Pope Francis: I Don’t Read Websites That ‘Accuse Me of Being a Heretic’
For the sake of his peace of mind, Pope Francis says he doesn’t read websites that accuse him of heresy, which he attributes to “resistance” to necessary reforms in the Vatican.
Vatican-Vetted Journal Says No ‘General Rule’ in Morality Valid for All Cases
In a striking departure from traditional Christian moral teaching, the Vatican-vetted journal, La Civilità Cattolica, claims that no general moral rule is valid in all cases. In a post on Twitter, the Jesuit-run magazine stated: “Every case is singular. You
NYT Weighs in on Widening U.S.-Vatican Rift and Attacks on Steve Bannon
The New York Times has added its voice to a chorus of commentators on the recent Vatican hostility toward American Catholics, conservatives, and Steve Bannon in particular.
Philly Archbishop Decries Vatican Article Attacking U.S. Christians as ‘Willfully Ignorant’
In a hard-hitting essay, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput has joined the dozens of Christian leaders who have denounced the ignorant and insulting article published this week by the Vatican-vetted journal, La Civiltà Cattolica.
Pope Francis Aides Attack Steve Bannon as Promoter of ‘Apocalyptic Geopolitics’
Two of Pope Francis’s closest aides have written a scathing article denouncing conservative American Christians in which they assail Stephen K. Bannon by name as a fundamentalist with an “apocalyptic” views of geopolitics.
Papal Advisers Bash American Christians in Bigoted Screed
In a peculiar, rambling essay, papal adviser Father Antonio Spadaro SJ has caricatured white southern evangelicals as well as conservative American Catholics as ignorant, theocratic, Manichean, war-mongering fanatics anxiously awaiting the apocalypse.
Italian Police Hunt Culprits Behind Anti-Pope Posters
Italian police spent Monday combing through surveillance video footage in an effort to apprehend the culprits behind the hundreds of anti-pope posters that were plastered around Rome over the weekend.
