The UN torture committee has concluded that the Catholic Church is not guilty of torture or in violation of international law. In a report issued today, the UN torture committee does criticize the Church for its handling of various abuse
It’s been slightly more than two weeks since the Holy See stood in the dock before the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva and was told the Church may be in violation of international laws against torture. On Friday, the
Despite the fact that the Holy See has recently been excoriated by two U.N. Committees for its beliefs about sexuality and abortion, the U.N. is finding use for the Catholic Church in Pope Francis’ expression of support for global awareness
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Pope Francis will arrive this weekend in the land where Christianity was born — and where Christians are disappearing. This ancient community has dwindled to around 2 percent of the region’s population as economic hardship,
VATICAN CITY, May 20 (UPI) — Twenty-six Italian women, who say they are in love with priests, wrote Pope Francis to ask him to end the celibacy mandate and let them marry. The Vatican Insider newspaper reported that the 26
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS–One of the more influential leaders of the Catholic Church came to the UN Thursday to deliver a strong message about the importance of the family. At a side-event organized by the Holy See, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president
A group of four self-proclaimed female Catholic priests from Southern California who are part of a larger, international group of 180 women who were excommunicated are reportedly defying the Catholic Church by pushing to oversee the ordination of female priests despite
French poet Charles Baudelaire once observed, “The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.” That trick was not working from May 5-10 in Rome at the Pontifical Athenaeum “Regina Apostolorum,” an educational institution
On Breitbart News Saturday, Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon and Editor in Chief Alex Marlow discussed Pope Francis’s remarks to the United Nations where he called for “legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the State,” using government and the private
Prince Charles has had to replace the Queen in a traditional ceremony after she decided she would be unable to climb a steep flight of stairs. The 88-year-old monarch was due to take part in an ancient installation ceremony for
Pope Francis met with the Secretary General of the United Nations along with the heads of all the major UN agencies. In his message he directly and indirectly mentioned the thorny UN issue of abortion. Francis told the gathered heads
As previously reported by Breitbart News, the Harvard Exchange Cultural Studies Club wound up in the middle of a controversy Wednesday when an event announced for May 12 began to look like a serious attempt at denigrating the Catholic Church. As
Abortion advocates on the UN anti-torture committee hectored Vatican representatives for two days running in Geneva this week, insisting that opposing abortion is tantamount to torture and therefore a violation of international law. On Tuesday the Vatican rep pushed back
GENEVA (AP) — The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572 with lesser penalties, providing the first ever breakdown of how it handled the more
The Holy See is once again before a UN Committee, this time the Committee on the Convention Against Torture (CAT) and, once again, the Catholic Church is being rebuked for its beliefs about sexuality and abortion. Given that the CAT
The UN Committee Against Torture began its questioning of the Holy See Monday morning in Geneva. So far, the questions have focused on a number of controversial topics including the sexual abuse of minors and Catholic opposition to abortion, both
The U.N. is cracking down – on the Vatican. A U.N. committee said Monday that the numerous cases of sex abuse by priests should be prosecuted and dealt with by the Vatican as cases of torture. The committee wanted to know why the
It’s so predictable: When Pope Francis reminds the world that he is pro-life, the right cheers and the left sulks. But when the Pope reminds people that he is on the economic left, the left cheers and the right sulks.
Former Polish President Lech Walesa honored Pope John Paul II in Rome this week, where he noted that is was “the value of God and the Spirit” that won the war against communism. In his statements, he compared Poland to
On Breitbart News Sunday broadcast on Sirius XM patriot Radio channel 125, Editor-in-Chief, Alexander Marlow sat in as host for Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon. Bannon, who is at the Vatican and conducted his own radio show on Breitbart News
Earlier this week, Stephen K. Bannon spoke with Edward Pentin, from the National Catholic Register, at the Pontifica Universita in Rome, during events leading up to the canonization of Pope John Paul II and John XXIII. Pentin remembers Pope John
There’s an old saw about standing on the shoulders of giants and thinking you’re tall. In other words, you take full advantage of what came before you while pretending, or even wrongly believing, that it sprang fully-formed from your own
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — Nine years after his death, Poles are once again lauding their beloved countryman, Pope John Paul II, as he was declared a saint in an unprecedented Vatican ceremony Sunday. Bells tolled across Poland and the crowds
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis declared Popes John XXIII and John Paul II saints before some 800,000 people on Sunday in an unprecedented ceremony made even more historic by the presence of emeritus Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s
As the news of the canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II streamed across the world Saturday morning bringing joy to Catholics everywhere, Huffington Post found that news of “Instagram Feuds,” the fact that “Miley Loves Pancakes,” the
