Two steps forward, one step back: mixed signals from Vatican on abuse and accountability
Yesterday, buoyed by the latest news from the Vatican, I concluded a happy comment by observing that with the removal of a Paraguayan bishop: The message from Rome is loud and clear: It doesn’t matter what else you do; if you don’t protect children ...
Evidence on its ex envoy’s sex abuse case ‘sent to the Vatican’
Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Francisco DomÃnguez revealed Wednesday that most of the evidence has been sent to the Vatican against its former envoy Jozef Wesolowski, who is under house arrest in the Holy See, charged with of paedophilia by the Church.
Vatican media need to 'up their game,' says adviser
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A new papal commission is looking at how Vatican media outlets can better communicate the church's message "of healing, of love, of hope, and of generosity of spirit," said the panel's leader. The group is drawing up "proposals that ...
Art World Abstracts: The Vatican Says Let There Be Light in the Sistine Chapel, and More!
Roberta Smith is glad “Miracle Paintings,” the new show from Dan Colen, only takes up one third of Gagosian Gallery’s 24th Street Space. When it comes to these miracles, she’s a Doubting Thomas. [NYT] But, well, Karen Rosenberg likes the ...
Vatican Arrests Former Archbishop on Child Sex Abuse Charges
The Vatican announced this week that it has placed under house arrest a former archbishop accused of sex crimes against children. Sixty-six-year-old Jozef Wesolowski was defrocked in June for sexually abusing boys in the Dominican Republic while serving ...
Vatican accuses UN panel of sowing confusion
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican accused a U.N. human rights committee on Friday of sowing confusion and violating its own norms and the church's religious freedom with a report into the Holy See's record on child sexual abuse. The Vatican released its ...
A Match Made in Heaven
Two Adult Formation studies began this week. Called, “ Conversations”, one study discusses selected Jewish practices and their theological underpinnings and the other explores aspects of our Catholic faith which distinguish us from other Christian traditions. Interestingly, the “conversation” on Jud ...
The Jesuit Agenda at Andrews University
Andrews University proclaims "The History of Catholicism is the history of Christian faith. Anthony E. Gilles traces its development -- from its beginnings in hushed gatherings within the Roman Empire to its current size and influence ... It details centuries of crucial turning points, from the deve ...
Fountains for All
' Here lies one whose name is writ in water' is the epitaph of John Keats, the English Romantic poet who died in Rome of tuberculosis on 23rd February 1821 at just 25 years old. He had been advised to travel to warmer climes by his doctor and he lived in what is now the Keats - Shelley Museum at the ...
