The Vatican next year will publish a collection of never-before-seen homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI during his private Sunday Masses, most of them penned during his 10-year retirement, officials said Saturday. The consecrated women who tended to Benedict during his pontificate and retirement recorded the homilies as he delivered them, and have now transcribed […]
Vatican to publish never-before-seen homilies by Pope Benedict XVI written during his 10-year retirement
Vatican Slams ‘Inhuman’ U.S. Southern Border Fence
ROME — The Vatican newspaper has slammed the U.S. for its southern border fence with a frontpage article decrying “that inhuman wire.” The L’Osservatore Romano piece is accompanied by a large photo of a young woman and a child attempting to crawl through the midst of razor wire, presumably in an effort to enter the
Pope Francis selects US priest who runs outreach for LGBTQ+ Catholics to join major Vatican gathering
An American Jesuit who runs outreach ministry for LGBTQ Catholics was been tapped by Pope Francis on Friday to be among participants at a major Vatican gathering of bishops and laypeople later this year. The Vatican unveiled the names of bishops, priests, nuns and laypersons who will take part in the weeks-long meeting that the […]
Vatican Tells Muslims: Ramadan Is Important for Christians, Too
MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images The month of Ramadan is important not only for Muslims, but also for believers of other religions, “in particular Christians,” the Vatican asserted this week. In a message of good wishes to Muslims around the world, the Vatican’s department of Interreligious Dialogue said that during the month of Ramadan, existing
Pope Francis Invites Delegation of Canadian Indigenous People to Vatican
ROME, Italy — Pope Francis has invited a delegation of indigenous people of Canada to the Vatican in December amidst controversy surrounding the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at Church-run schools for natives. Vatican News reported that the encounter will take place this coming December just before Christmas and will include three separate bilateral…
Catholics Ask Trump to Probe Soros-Obama-Clinton Conspiracy at Vatican
Did billionaire speculator George Soros, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and Obama/Clinton adviser John Podesta conspire to overthrow the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and replace him with a radical, Pope Francis? Did they use America’s intelligence agencies, and our nation’s diplomatic machinery, political muscle, and financial power to […]
Marxist Mole in the Vatican? – VIDEO
America’s Survival President Cliff Kincaid and Matt Gaspers of Catholic Family News discuss the infiltration of the Vatican, the March 13 anniversary of the election of Pope Francis, and address the “errors of Russia,” as described in the Fatima revelations. Is the crisis of faith a “test” from God? What will Christians do to […]
Catholics Lecture Bannon on Immigration… But Vatican Has 40-Foot Wall
Nolte: Those 40-Foot Vatican Walls Are Logs in the Eyes of Bannon-Bashing Bishops Settled in the middle of Rome, Vatican City serves as the Catholic Church’s headquarters and is also the Church’s very own 110-acre sovereign state. And while you are always welcome to enter St. Peter’s Square, that is as far as you are […]
About Those Vatican ‘Walls’
In his short pontificate, Pope Francis has become the Catholic primate non-Catholics love to hate. Whatever you think of the Pope’s very Jesuitical mind and his near-Franciscan notions about humanity, however, the most recent flap about “walls and bridges” once against illustrates several truths: The Pope is not an American politician. The Pope’s remarks are best […]
Vatican Throws Kim Davis Under Bus
First, the Pope kept his meeting with Kentucky clerk Kim Davis a secret. Davis, of course, refused to license same-sex marriages, stating that it conflicted with her religious viewpoint; for that refusal, she was briefly jailed for contempt of court. Now, the Vatican has told the media that his meeting with Davis didn’t act as […]
WAS THERE A COUP IN THE VATICAN TO DEPOSE POPE BENEDICT XVI?
This writer, as well as many other Catholics around the world, were very surprised when His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI said that he would retire on February 11, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in a speech in Latin before the cardinals in the Vatican, citing a “lack of strength of mind and body” […]
Vatican: Pope’s Meeting with Kim Davis Not a ‘Form of Support’
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who received national attention for refusing to issue marriage licenses in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, has been a polarizing figure in the U.S., and even on the Right. Some GOP presidential candidates, for example, believe she ought to just accept current U.S. law on the […]
Obama Invited These People To Meet The Pope — The Vatican Isn’t Happy
President Barack Obama has attracted attention for planning to meet Pope Francis in the White House with a motley assortment of dissenting Catholics and others opposed to Catholic doctrine. Now, the Vatican is signaling that it isn’t happy. Pope Francis is scheduled to meet Obama on the South Lawn of the White House next Wednesday, […]
VATICAN INVITES ANTI-CAPITALIST ECO-ACTIVIST TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
Naomi Klein, a Canadian environmental crusader who describes herself as a “secular Jewish Feminist,” addressed Vatican officials Wednesday, bashing “economic experts” who place “outsized value on protecting corporate profits and economic growth” rather than the poor, who she said will be most affected by climate change. Klein is the author of the New York Times […]