The story about the letter from Pope Benedict to Msgr. Viganò (see here, here, here, and here for our coverage) has, as new deceptions have come to light piecemeal over the past week, grown from something seemingly insignificant into an enormous …
Vatican Credibility Takes Another Hit: Photo of Benedict Letter Intentionally Altered
The Vatican published parts of a letter from Pope Benedict this week, and the Catholic world suddenly lost its mind. The reason? Because the letter said that “Pope Francis is a man of profound philosophical and theological formation” and that …
New Sources Bolster Report that Pope Benedict Played Key Role in Synod Compromise
Preliminary Note: Today, 12 March, Vatican News published a report that Pope emeritus Benedict XVI wrote yet another letter. In this new letter, he praises a set of new books on the theology of Pope Francis which make clear to …
A Sad Clerical Bestiary: Perhaps the Roman Pontiff is Telling Lies…
By Marco Tosatti (11 February 2018) [Editor’s Note: A bestiary was a medieval compendium of animal stories, which often contained a moral point.] This is a sad clerical bestiary. More sad than anyone can imagine. Let’s give a reason: perhaps …
Commentators on Homosexual Blessing Scandal Call for Correction or Dismissal of Cardinal Marx
The recent statements made by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the president of the German Bishops’ Conference and papal counselor, concerning the possibility, even if only in some parishes, of blessing same-sex couples has caused quite a stir in the Catholic world. …
In the Church, The Problem is not Pedophilia but Homosexuality
By Riccardo Cascioli The scandal of sexual abuse in Chile is now a loose cannon that threatens to explode even in Rome. The facts are now well-known and revolve around the extensive cover-up – in Chile above all, but now …
A Breaking Point in the Papacy?
At the beginning of 2018, Steve Skojec predicted that this year would mark “the beginning of the end” of Pope Francis’ power. It is now becoming increasingly clear that this pontificate might be facing several distinct points of fracture. Francis’ …
The Escalating War Against Orthodox Catholicism
When it was announced last year that Fr. James Martin, SJ, was being brought in as a “consultor” to the Vatican’s communications team, reactions were predictably on a spectrum ranging from deeply perplexed to blood-vessel bursting outrage. Known for his …
Pope Doubles Down With “Apology”, Insists Abuse Victims Lack Proof
It was arguably his most stunning statement to date as pontiff. As I reported last week, while in Chile, the pope accused victims of clerical sexual abuse perpetrated by Fr. Fernando Karadima of “calumny” for alleging that his protege, papal …
If Henry Sire Had Distributed Condoms to the Poor, He’d Still Be in the Knights of Malta Right Now
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Henry Sire, Oxford-educated historian and writer of Phoenix from the Ashes, was in fact the pseudonymous “Marcantonio Colonna”, author of the blockbuster book, The Dictator Pope. Approximately five seconds later, he was summarily suspended from the …
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