https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2018/05/24/pope-doesnt-want-practicing-gays-in-seminaries-reports-say/ In a document he gave to the Chilean bishops mid-May, when 34 bishops came to Rome to talk with Francis about the crisis of the local church, a product among others of decades of clerical sexual abuse cover-up, abuses of power and conscience, the pope said that gay priests shouldn’t be forming other clerics…
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/04/the-prophetic-power-of-humanae-vitae These cradle Catholics and converts and reverts, fellow-traveling non-Catholics, clergy and laity alike have the consolation of one final realidad, which may be the most important reality of all. Whatever the anxieties of the moment, however prominent or widespread the disgruntlement, the ever-growing empirical record continues to vindicate Paul VI’s encyclical. Humanae Vitae doesn’t…
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/03/09/vaticaninsider/eng/documents/responding-to-the-five-dubia-from-amoris-laetitia-itself-0wrtch9RSgo5NGM9pyTm1L/pagina.html “I know much attention has been given to the five dubia of the four Cardinals, and some people are upset and angry that Pope Francis has not responded to them. I can’t speak for the Holy Father, but it might be that he has not responded because there is no need to do so. If we…
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/romes-colosseum-lit-in-red-to-symbolise-blood-of-persecuted-christians/126414.htm Rome’s Colosseum was bathed in red on Saturday (February 24) as part of a worldwide campaign to highlight the persecution of Christians. It came as Pope Francis met Asia Bibi’s husband and daughter. The Pakistani woman has been on death row for nine years facing spurious charges of blasphemy.
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/02/22/180222a.html The following is the text of the Message the Holy Father Francis has sent to young people of the world on the occasion of the 33rd World Youth Day, to be celebrated at diocesan level on 25 March 2018, Palm Sunday, on the theme, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour…
