Dunedin’s Bishop Campbell could be in line for a “rap over the knuckles” from the Pope for criticising the new translation of the prayers, responses and music used at Mass, a Dunedin academic says. Bishop Campbell has made a public criticism of changes endorsed Pope Benedict. University of Otago Associate Prof Greg Dawes, an authority Read more
In an interview with Anthony Gaspari of Zenit the Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza touches on all the issues that will certainly emerge during the Papal visit to Germany. He comments on women’s ordination, the influence of the Vatican, ecumenism, celibacy and vocations. Is the ordination of women to be considered Read more
Almost everything the public knows about both the Cloyne Report and the Vatican’s response to it has been filtered through the media. The public therefore has a very faulty understanding of both documents and where the truth lies between the Irish Government and the Holy See in this whole affair. For example, most people probably Read more
An anonymous letter has been sent to the Vatican secretary of state, Tarcisio Bertone. It accused him of appointing to the Curia’s top posts only people loyal to him. And it contained the dreadful prediction of a “great funeral” for the “prime minister” of the Holy See, echoing the prophecy of Don Bosco, founder of the Salesian order, Bertone’s one, against Italian monarchs in the 19th century. The episode was quickly dismissed by his inner circle as trivial, saying it is not at all unusual.
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The Vatican has given the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) little room to manoeuvre if it wants to be reconciled with Rome. At a meeting between Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of SSPX and Cardinal William Levada, head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith, Fellay received a document detailing the “doctrinal principles and criteria Read more
The Irish Government toned-down its recent fury and in what has been described as an ‘uneasy peace’, welcomed the Vatican’s response to the Cloyne report. However despite the Vatican’s expression of shame and apology to victims of sexual abuse, the Irish Government has not backed away from its earlier harsh criticism of the Holy See. Read more
Ireland’s Prime Minister, Enda Kenny is standing by his comments that the Vatican hampered an enquiry into child sex abuse by Irish priests. Kenny’s original remarks have been widely applauded in Ireland but in its response late last week, the Vatican said Kenny’s accusations were “unfounded.” “Every organization, either faith or any other, will understand Read more
An apologetic Vatican acknowledged “grave failures” in its handling of child sex abuse in the Cloyne diocese, however has rejected claims that it in any way hampered a clerical child abuse inquiry, and said the accusation against it was unfounded. In a long-awaited 24 page report the Vatican expressed deep concern at the findings and “abhorrence” Read more
