Tag: Catholic Church

• Monday, May 13th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  A cardinal to the rescue of occupants of a property without power or hot water

  

  A cardinal who conducts acts of charity for Pope Francis has restored power for hundreds of people in a building in Rome after climbing down a manhole and flipping a switch, local media report.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Cautious support from the Catholic Church to Macri's call for a national consensus to secure stability

  

  Argentina’s bishops have offered tentative backing to the country’s president in securing a national consensus on politically sensitive issues, in a move that could be construed as giving a boost to a conservative incumbent facing a stiff challenge from a former populist president with an ambivalent history with both the current pope and the local church he once led.

• Tuesday, May 7th 2019 - 08:32 UTC

  Pope Francis tells Argentine bishops he desires to visit his homeland in the near future

  

  Despite stating at the outset that he didn’t like travel and didn’t plan to do much of it, during the first six years of his pontificate Pope Francis made close to 30 international trips, including visiting virtually every country of Latin America. Yet there’s one glaring exception: his home country, Argentina and neighbouring Uruguay.

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 07:50 UTC

  Ex Pope Benedict blames clerical abuse on the “all out sexual freedom” of the sixties

  

  Retired Pope Benedict XVI has published a letter which blames clerical sex abuse on the “all-out sexual freedom” of the 1960s. He said that cultural and historical change had led to a “dissolution” of morality in Catholicism.

• Wednesday, March 27th 2019 - 08:08 UTC

  Conservative Catholics blast the Pope because he dislikes people kneeling and ring kissing

  

  To kiss the ring on the pope’s hand or not to - that is the question. On Monday, when Pope Francis visited a Catholic shrine in Loreto, he repeatedly withdrew his right hand as a long line of people bowed and tried to kiss the ring on it.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Ex Vatican treasurer sentenced to six years in jail for sexually abusing choir boys

  

  Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to 6 years in jail on Wednesday by an Australian court for sexually abusing two choir boys in Melbourne in the 1990s. Pell, a former top adviser to Pope Francis, is the most senior Catholic worldwide to be convicted for child sex offences.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Pope Francis will open Vatican archives on Pius XII and the Holocaust

  

  Pope Francis has said the Roman Catholic Church will open up its archives on Pius XII, who was Pope during World War Two. Pius, who was Pope from 1939 to 1958, has been accused of tolerating the rise of Nazi Germany and of not doing enough to protect Jews during the Holocaust. The Vatican says he worked behind the scenes to try to protect Jews.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Another blow for the Catholic Church: Cardinal Pell found guilty of sexually assaulting choirboys

  

  Australian Cardinal George Pell who helped elect popes and ran the Vatican's finances, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys, becoming the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex crimes.

• Monday, February 25th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Pope ends sexual abuse conference calling for an “all out battle” but victims remain deeply disappointed

  

  Pope Francis has ended his conference on the sexual abuse of children by clergy by calling for an “all-out battle” against a crime that should be “erased from the face of the earth”. But victims and their advocates expressed deep disappointment, saying Francis had merely repeated old promises and offered few new concrete proposals.

• Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  “Hear the cry of the little ones who plead for justice,” Pope Francis tells Vatican summit fighting sex abuse

  

  Pope Francis on Thursday opened a landmark Vatican summit on fighting child sex abuse, calling for “concrete measures” and handing top Catholic bishops a roadmap to tackling paedophilia in the church.