The Independent26d
Opus Dei cardinal acknowledges Vatican sanctioned him after abuse allegation but denies wrongdoing
The once-powerful archbishop of Lima, Peru and the first-ever cardinal of Opus Dei acknowledged Saturday that the Vatican had imposed ... Spanish-speaking Catholic Church. Cipriani called the ...
The Christian Century2mon
David Bentley Hart’s apocalyptic view of tradition
The Second Vatican Council did not really change church teachings, Newmanists insist, so much as it effected the development of doctrine. Hart charges that, in the final analysis, Newman’s work ...
Pope is sitting up out of bed at hospital as he recovers from pneumonia
Doctors say pneumonia in such a fragile, elderly patient makes him particularly prone to complications given the difficulty in being able to effectively expel fluid from his lungs ...
The Independent5d
Another woman takes over a top job at the Vatican, this time running the city state administration
Pope Francis had previously announced Petrini’s promotion, part of his effort to place women in decision-making roles in the Vatican to serve as models for the rest of the church. The Vatican ...
The Christian Century2mon
A better response to the decline of the Christian West
The 1958 constitution formally declared France a secular republic, Vatican II’s policy of aggiornamento signaled that the church would adapt to the world ... He turned fear into fable in his ...