Bishop Bill Morris, bishop of Toowoomba who was forced by the Vatican to resign early, was farewelled at a Mass of Thanksgiving at St Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday.
The congregation overflowed from the cathedral into outside marquee where the service was broadcast live.
Read the article...At the beginning of 2012, Benedict XVI will have to decide on a key-appointment for his pontificate: a Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the most delicate department head of the Roman Curia, a task Ratzinger held for 24 years before being elected Pope. Levada has turned 75 years, and does Read more
The Vatican has summoned the head of traditionalist Society of St Pius X (SSPX) to continue the two-year doctrinal dialogue between the schismatic group and the Holy See. Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Society will meet with top officials who are trying to normalise relations. The meeting will also include Cardinal William Levada, head of the Congregation Read more
Several priests and laymen in China’s underground Catholic church have been detained in a struggle over the appointment of a new bishop. Independent Catholic Asian news agency, ucanews.com, believes that dozens of lay people as well as Tianshui diocesan administrator, Fr John Baptist Wang Ruohan; retired Bishop Casmir Wang Milu; Father John Wang Ruowang and several other Read more
Responding to protests in Spain that Spanish taxpayers will be footing the bill for World Youth Day, the Vatican has released a statement saying that all costs will be absorbed by participants and corporate sponsors. The Vatican acknowledged there will be some indirect costs to the country such as security and traffic control, but it Read more
The ‘partial release’ of internal files held by the Vatican, on a priest accused of sexually abusing boys in Ireland and the US, was not an indication of a changing church, abuse victims have said.
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Elitist and narcissist is how Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny has described the Vatican’s handling of the sexual abuse scandal in Ireland. Kenny said after three government reports on clerical abuse and cover-ups rocked one of Europe’s most devout societies, the church needs to be “truly and deeply penitent for the horrors it perpetrated, hid and Read more
The Vatican published online more than 70 pages of documents which, it said, prove the Vatican had no knowledge of a priest’s sexual misconduct until he and his religious order petitioned for his laicisation.
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The Vatican has begun a massive restoration project on St Peter’s Square that will take it back in time to the 1600’s. The project will encompass all of the square’s 376 columns and pillars, 140 statues and 1,200 metres in terraces and cornices, as well as the Clementina and Gregoriana fountains and the Egyptian obelisk Read more
The digital revolution means an event that may occur three or four times in a lifetime, now happens every Wednesday, on Facebook. Once a week, in a game called “Vatican Wars”, an impassioned struggle occurs on Facebook whereby a new pope is selected who can change or reaffirm the Church’s long established teaching. Papal electors Read more