The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru says it refuses to comply with a Vatican deadline to reform its statutes until an unrelated legal dispute with the Archdiocese of Lima has been resolved. As “of today there is no agreement on a comprehensive solution to the problems that exist,” the university announced on its website April Read more
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Vatican investigating Ireland priest for liberal views
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Fr Tony Flannery, founder of the Association of Catholic Priests, is under investigation by the Vatican for some of his liberal views, reports The Irish Catholic. The investigation comes just two weeks after the report of the Apostolic Visitation that described “widespread dissent” from traditional Catholic teaching by priests, religious and lay people. It is Read more
SSPX says it has reason to hope in discussion with Vatican
Friday, March 30th, 2012
A letter read at all churches and chapels of the German district of the Priestly Fraternity of St Pius X says the discussions between the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) and the Vatican are at a crucial point, but there opportunity for hope. “We are have thus arrived at a crucial point. Even if the letter Read more
Hanoi: Vatican delegation not blocked from Vietnam
Friday, March 30th, 2012
Vietnam authorities deny blocking a Vatican delegation from entering the country. The Bangkok Post reported on Tuesday that Vietnam had revoked visas for a Vatican delegation working to advance the beatification of former assistant archbishop Francois-Xavier Van Thuan. “Vietnamese authorities have not received any official request from the Vatican for such work to take place Read more
“No deal” Vatican tells traditionalists
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
The Vatican has rejected a submission from the traditionalist Society of St Pius X (SSPX) on terms for which SSPX’s reconciliation might be possible. On Friday, Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal William Levada, met with Bishop Bernard Fellay, SSPX leader. The meeting was held at the Vatican and lasted for Read more
Pope probes Vati-leaks: criminal repercussions threatend
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Distressed by disloyalty, Pope Benedict has set up a special commission to investigate what has been popularly dubbed “Vati-leaks”. The establishment of the commission coincides with the Vatican’s launch of an internal criminal investigation into leaked personal confidential and financial documents which have exposed power stuggles inside the organisation. Monsignor Angelo Becciu, undersecretary in the Read more
Ambitious Vatican restoration projects moves ahead
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Restoration is slowly but steadily proceeding on a Vatican project so ambitious it has been likened to the decades-long cleaning up of the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. Guy Devreux, who directs the Vatican’s workshop for marble and limestone structures, says cleaning the Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s statue-topped colonnade that cradles St. Peter’s Square should take Read more
Vatican preparing document on access to water as justice issue
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012The undersecretary of Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Flaminia Giovanelli, told Vatican Radio that the council is preparing a new document on the right to water.
“The right to food, like the right to water, has an important place within the pursuit of other rights, beginning with the fundamental right to life,” Pope Benedict taught in his 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate.
“It is therefore necessary to cultivate a public conscience that considers food and access to water as universal rights of all human beings, without distinction or discrimination.”
The document will be called: Water, and essential element for life.”
Read the article...Vatican archbishop rebukes Blair over his support for gay marriage
Thursday, March 15th, 2012A senior Vatican figure has rebuked Tony Blair after it was reported at the weekend that he “strongly supports the Prime Minister’s proposal” to legalise gay marriage.
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelisation, had harsh words for the former Prime Minister, who became a Catholic in 2007 and whose comments were reported in the Independent on Sunday.
He said: “If the stories in the press about Blair’s thinking are true, I think he should examine his conscience carefully”, Vatican Insider reported.
Meanwhile Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, was expected to praise marriage today. In a Social Justice Strategy Paper he is expected to say that the stability of the parents’ relationship is a key factor in the development of children and that marriage is particularly good for children, The Telegraph reported.
Read the article...Vatican confirms second hacker attack, Anonymous claims responsibility
Thursday, March 15th, 2012The Vatican has confirmed that its website suffered a second hacker attack in the space of six days but declined to comment on the event.
“It happened, but we have no comment to make on it,” the Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said.
The Anonymous hacker collective claimed responsibility for the attack Monday, which cut off access to the Vatican website www.vatican.va for several hours and violated data on the Vatican Radio computer system.
Anonymous said the incursion into the Vatican Radio system was justified by the fact that the radio’s powerful transmitters sited in the countryside outside Rome constituted a health risk to people living in the vicinity.
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