Cardinal Raymond Burke told The Australian Sunday that the Catholic cardinals will have a hard time voting in the next papal conclave because they have had little contact and do not know each other very well.
Cardinal Raymond Burke said that the recent deal between the Vatican and China’s Communist Party was “absolutely unconscionable” in an interview with the Australian on Sunday.
Pope Francis has plugged the one-million-kilometer “Global Solidarity Walk” for migrants and refugees, urging Catholics to participate in the pro-immigration event.
A former Vatican ambassador said Friday that a supposed rebuttal of his claims that Pope Francis grossly mishandled the case of serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick actually confirms the substance of his accusations.
Pope Francis met with Jesuit Father Jon Sobrino this week, the liberation theologian who had previously been censured by the Vatican for the theological “imprecisions and errors” in his writings, and thanked him for his “witness.”
Leftist South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s top officials claimed on Thursday that Pope Francis was interested in visiting North Korea following a meeting between the head of the Catholic church and the head of state at the Vatican.
Pope Francis met with filmmaker Michael Moore in the Vatican Wednesday. Moore is an admirer of Francis and has called him “the Catholic church’s Gorbachev,” referring to the Soviet premier who was instrumental in bringing down the Iron Curtain.
For Jesus, insults are a way of “killing” our brothers and sisters, Pope Francis said Wednesday, urging his hearers to commit to never insulting anyone.
Pope Francis returned to one of his favorite topics this week, preaching against Christians who are “rigid” and resistant to change.
Pope Francis bemoaned a “cooling” of international solidarity in his Message for World Food Day Tuesday, while calling the U.N.’s dubious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a “rallying cry” for all people of good will.
ROME — Economic losses due to natural disasters linked to climate change have increased by 151 percent over the last 20-year period (1998-2017), the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano claimed this weekend.
Pope Francis canonized seven new saints Sunday, including Pope Paul VI, who concluded the Second Vatican Council, and Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated while celebrating Mass in 1980.
The devil’s mission is always to destroy, Pope Francis said Friday, but his worst assaults are not frontal attacks, but subtle, “well-mannered” persuasion.
ROME — Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Washington, DC, Cardinal Donald Wuerl on Friday but asked him to stay on as “Apostolic Administrator” of the archdiocese until a permanent successor is appointed.
Taiwan’s Vice President Chen Chien-jen departed for Rome late Thursday in a bid to cement diplomatic ties with the Vatican, perceived as threatened by a recent rapprochement between China and the Holy See.
The French Medical Council denounced Pope Francis Wednesday for having compared abortionists to paid “hit men” hired to bump off children.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue has denounced mainstream media silence over newsworthy remarks made by Pope Francis comparing abortionists to paid killers.
Pope Francis used some of his strongest language to date to condemn abortion Wednesday, comparing it in a series of improvised remarks to hired murder.
The Blessed Virgin Mary was “normal, educated normally, open to marrying, to starting a family,” states Pope Francis in a new book-length interview that is sending shock-waves through the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis condemned abortion in all its forms Wednesday, declaring that even a disabled child is a gift of God to be welcomed and not put to death.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un reportedly invited Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang, South Korea’s presidential office revealed on Tuesday.
Some members of the Vatican synod on young people proposed a more direct approach to addressing clerical sex abuse Tuesday morning, as well as the need to highlight the Christian call to a life of chastity.
“Pope Bergoglio himself seems willing to talk about almost every subject but his own beliefs and record,” writes Jesuit Father James V. Schall in a searing essay Monday. And yet these are the questions that “seem most at issue.” “The
The head of the Vatican’s bishops’ office has reproached a former papal nuncio for his “unjust and unjustified attack” against Pope Francis for the way he handled the case of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s serial homosexual abuse.
The Vatican announced Saturday that it will begin an investigation into the serial homosexual abuse of former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick in the face of mounting pressure to address the issue.
After signing an accord with the Vatican on the naming of bishops, the Chinese communist party continues its systematic attacks on Christians in various provinces, local sources declared this week.
Pope Francis told young people Wednesday that their critical ideas have a right to be heard and respected in a curious departure from recent statements that accusers are Satanic.
Pope Francis’ approval rating among U.S. Catholics has struck an all-time low in the face of his refusal to answer allegations that he rehabilitated serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Pew revealed Tuesday.
The Catholic bishops are gathering in Rome for a synod in a moment in which “the Church faces perhaps its gravest crisis since the Protestant Reformation in the form of the worldwide clerical sexual abuse scandals,” according to veteran Vatican analyst John L. Allen, Jr.
In the face of Rome’s refusal to open an investigation into Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s serial homosexual abuse, a group of lay Catholics has announced that it is launching its own full inquiry into all the cardinals of the Catholic Church and their relationship with abuse.
The Vatican denounced the scandal of child abuse before the U.N. General Assembly Monday but made no mention of the Church’s own crisis with allegations of mishandling abusers pointing to Pope Francis himself.
A number of religious freedom advocates have stepped forward to criticize the Vatican’s new “provisional agreement” with China on the appointment of bishops, arguing that it betrays naïveté concerning “the evil of communism.”
Pope Francis has called upon all Catholics to pray the rosary and the prayer to Saint Michael the archangel every day during the month of October to protect the church from the devil.
A number of Catholic prelates have publicly criticized new efforts by Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini to curb illegal immigration, accusing the minister of adopting a “fire and brimstone” approach to migrants.
The Vatican announced Friday that Pope Francis has dismissed Chilean homosexual abuser Fernando Karadima from the Catholic priesthood.
