Today’s Catholic must-reads: 30/05/12
Benedict XVI addressed the so-called Vatileaks scandal directly at his general audience this morning, saying that the affair had “brought sadness to my heart” (video, full text of comments in Italian)....
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Pope Francis appealed for an end to slave labour at his general audience this morning (full text, full video). The Holy Father condemned the working conditions of those who died in the factory collapse...
View ArticleArchbishop says Vatican officials are ‘ashamed to tell people’ where they work
The Vatican is not “a den of thieves”, and such insinuations are an injustice to employees who are proud to serve the Pope and the Church, Archbishop Angelo Becciu, a top official in the Vatican...
View ArticlePope names Archbishop Becciu as personal delegate to Order of Malta
Pope Francis has named a top Vatican archbishop as his special delegate to the troubled Knights of Malta and given him “all necessary powers” to help the sovereign religious order reform its...
View ArticleOusted Knights of Malta leader returns to Rome to vote in election
The Knights of Malta soap opera took on new drama on Wednesday as the order’s ousted leader apparently returned to Rome on the eve of the election for his successor in spite of a papal delegate asking...
View ArticleThe Knights of Malta have done the Vatican’s bidding – and the stage is set...
On Saturday, the Council Complete of State of the Knights of Malta declined to elect a new Grand Master. Instead, they submitted to the express instructions of Archbishop Angelo Becciu, Pope Francis’s...
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Pope Francis is calm but “also suffers” because of claims that he is betraying Church teaching, Archbishop Angelo Becciu has said. Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego has called Donald Trump’s proposed...
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