On 8 March, Mary McAleese, the former President of Ireland, caused a stir at a women’s conference in Rome. In her opening remarks at the event, held on the occasion of International Women’s Day, McAleese — who is notably pro abortion and an advocate of the LGBT movement — called the Catholic Church “one of the last great…
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 embarrassment for the Holy See. It has become emblematic of the mess within the Church,…
Today, 17 March, Sandro Magister, the well-informed Vatican specialist, has some more revelations to report with regard to the recent publication of a letter written by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in response to an invitation to review eleven volumes on the theology of Pope Francis. As it turns out, not only did the Vatican try…
In recent weeks, more information about the Barros case has come to us which is worth reporting. The Chilean Cardinal Javier Errázuriz Ossa – one of the members of the pope’s Council of Nine Cardinals – recently wrote a letter to various Latin American bishops’ conferences complaining about the fact that Bishop Juan Barros’ presence…
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 the 11-volume theological work on the theology of the pope “help to see the inner…
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 him “that Pope Francis is a man with profound philosophical and theological formation and [which]…
In August of 2017, InfoVaticana, a small Catholic news portal based in Madrid, Spain, was surprised to receive a letter from Baker & McKenzie, the second largest law firm in the world, demanding that InfoVaticana transfer its domain (www.infovaticana.com) to the Vatican Secretariat of State. The reason for the demand was that the Vatican alleges that…
In the wake of Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s recent strong rebuttal of the German bishops’ decision to admit Protestant spouses of Catholics, in individual cases, to Holy Communion, it is now Cardinal Walter Brandmüller who takes his own stance with regard to this new episcopal step, calling the German bishops’ referral to “individual cases” a “salami…
Cardinal Walter Kasper is turning 85. On this occasion, Katholisch.de, the news site of the German bishops quotes Anette Schavan – the German Ambassador to the Holy See – who once described Kasper in his presence as “pope maker.” To which tribute he modestly demurred. In a 5 March article, Thomas Jansen, the editor-in-chief of…
Editor’s Note: the following text is an interview with Cardinal Willem Eijk conducted by the Italian monthly magazine Il Timone and published in Italy. In this interview, Cardinal Eijk makes some courageous statements about important matters of our time. We present to our readers herewith a translation of the whole document, with the kind permission from…
Cardinal Sarah, in Belgium, spoke about the crisis of faith on the part of the church hierarchy and did not hesitate to denounce the betrayal committed by the clergy through their lack of faith In the last few days Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, was in Belgium for a…
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