On his last full day as pope, Pope Benedict XVI delivered an unusually personal and emotional farewell address, thanking the faithful around the world for…
Pope Benedict XVI’s resignations has caused a flurry of speculation and scandalous talk. On Thursday, the popular paper published an article alleging that Pope Benedict…
Parrots may squawk in the Vatican Gardens during a conclave, but the cardinals are not allowed to tweet. For most of the 117 red-vested princes…
From the New York Times: Roger Vangheluwe, the longest-serving bishop in Belgium, resigned from his post Friday after admitting to sexually abusing “a young man in my close entourage” many years ago. In a statement issued by the Vatican on Friday, Vangheluwe, 73, the bishop of Bruges since 1984, said that the abuse had occurred […]
From the New York Times: VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI, making a rare direct comment on the sexual abuse crisis, promised Wednesday that the Roman Catholic Church would take action to deal with the widening scandal. During his weekly audience here, Benedict told pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter’s Square that he met with […]
From the New York Times: ROME — Pope Benedict XVI spoke on Thursday of the need for the faithful to do “penance” in light of “the attacks of the world that talks to us of our sins,” in an off-the-cuff portion of a homily that was his most direct reference to the sex abuse crisis […]
From New York Times: ROME — After a week of angry counterattacks by the Roman Catholic Church against its critics over clerical sex abuse, the Vatican changed course on Friday with a conciliatory statement from its spokesman, who implicitly raised the possibility that Pope Benedict XVI would again meet with victims. The spokesman, the Rev. […]
From the New York Times: ARMAGH, Northern Ireland — As the sexual abuse scandal sweeps through the Roman Catholic Church in Europe and the United States, there are few places where dismay and confusion among worshipers strikes as deep a chord as here in Armagh, seat of the embattled cardinal whose fate has become closely […]
