Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
"I invite you to live your faith with great freedom, never believing that there exists only one form of political commitment for Catholics, a Catholic party."
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pius, who was pope from 1939 to 1958, has been strongly attacked for not speaking out publicly against the Holocaust but defended by some for the vast hidden work he did to help many victims of the Nazis, fascists and communists.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Filipe Domingues
Some members of the armed forces resent the influence and popularity of the Catholic Church in the Amazon.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“To generalize, to look at a whole category of people is never legitimate,” said Archbishop Charles Scicluna, one of the Vatican’s point man in the fight against sex abuse. Homosexuality and heterosexuality are “human conditions,” he said, adding, “they are not something that predisposes to sin.”
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“I make a heartfelt appeal for an all-out battle against the abuse of minors both sexually and in other areas, on the part of all authorities and individuals, for we are dealing with abominable crimes that must be erased from the face of the earth,” the pope said.
Television reporter Valentina Alazraki of Televisa speaks during a meeting on the protection of minors in the church at the Vatican Feb. 23, 2019, in this image taken from Vatican television. (CNS photo/Vatican Television)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“The faithful do not forgive the lack of transparency because it is a new assault on the victims,” Valentina Alazraki, a Mexican television reporter, told the 190 church leaders attending the Vatican summit on the protection of minors.