Vatican radio is reducing is use of Short and Medium Wave radio transmissions to most of Europe and the United States, and replace them with new communications technologies. The move, announced by Director General of Vatican Radio, Fr Federico Lombardi, SJ, is to happen on July 1. Lombardi said newer developments in communications technology meant Read more
Anti Mafia prosecutors have asked the secretive Vatican Bank to disclose details of an account held by a priest in connection with a money laundering and fraud investigation, it emerged on Sunday. The official request was made more than a month ago but so far the Vatican Bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, Read more
Dialogue between the Holy See and the Lefebvrians has reached a crucial point. Having carefully studied the content of the doctrinal preamble with the added modifications requested by the Superior of the Society of St. Pius X, Benedict XVI took his final decision and communicated it to the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine Read more
The Holy See, a sovereign state, has hit back at Italian authorities for taking documents intended for the Pope, during a raid on the home of ousted Vatican Bank chief, Ettore Gottti Tedeschi. Calling for Italy to respect the law of an independent state, the Vatican says it expects Italian authorities to respect the Vatican’s status in Read more
Rome is not requiring total acceptance of the teachings of Vatican II a condition of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X (SSPX). Accepting the Council’s teaching is no longer “a prerequisite for the canonical solution” according to Superior General of SSPX’s Bishop Bernard Fellay. Fellay made his remarks in an interview published on the Society’s website. Read more
Speaking for the first time on the topic of Vatileaks, the Vatican’s Secretary of State (Prime Minister), Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, told an Italian television interviewer that Pope Benedict is not overly worried by the scandal. “He doesn’t allow himself to be frightened by attacks, of any sort, nor by the hard accumulation of prejudices,” Bertone Read more
Contradicting Catholic teaching on the likes of homosexuality, divorce, gay marriage and masturbation brought a stinging criticism from the Vatican of a book written by a prominent American nun. “Defective” and “not consistent with authentic Catholic theology” is how the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) labelled “Just Love: A Framework for Christian Read more
The leadership group for US nuns says the Vatican report finding they had undermined church teaching is based on “unsubstantiated accusations”. Calling the Vatican’s review process “flawed” and “lacking transparency”, the leadership group said “the sanctions were disproportionate to the concerns raised and could compromise their ability to fulfill their mission.” The nuns said the Vatican’s report Read more
New leaks from the Vatican over the weekend meant there was no respite for Pope Benedict, in Milan to celebrate an event focusing on family values. In its Sunday edition, Rome newspaper La Repubblica published more documents saying it received them anonymously after the arrest of the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele. The paper also received a Read more
The Vatican’s treatment of LCWR (the Leadership Conference of Women Religious) has raised eyebrows outside the Church as well as within it. In his column in NCR, Bill Tammeus, a Presbyterian elder, writes: “Those of us outside of Catholicism find it unfathomable that the church … would exploit or disdain the women who have committed Read more