Vatican astronomer says there’s life out there
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, the new president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, has no doubt that life exists elsewhere in the universe and that when humanity discovers it, the news will come as no big surprise. He suggested that the likely ...
Lord Patten chairs first meeting of commission overhauling Vatican media
The commission on Vatican media will meet for the first time today. The 11-member committee, which is chaired by Lord Patten of Barnes, will hold discussions over the next two days at the Domus Sanctae Marthae. In a statement, Fr Federico Lombardi said ...
Anglicans pip the Vatican in close-run T20 cricket match
A Harborough couple had an impromptu audience with the Archbishop of Canterbury at the first T20 cricket match between the Vatican and the Church of England. The Most Reverend Justin Welby commiserated with Roman Catholics Keith and Maureen Douglas after ...
RUSSIA - UKRAINE - Moscow Patriarchate tells Vatican that Uniate "problem" should be at the centre of ecumenical dialogue
Metropolitan Hilarion again attacks the "project" of the Catholic Church to proselytise in Ukraine, says theological issues should be put aside to address and solve instead the Greek Catholic "problem".
Exorcism While-U-Wait
In the latest from the Bizarre Religious News department, we have word that Catholic exorcists in Italy are being told to take it easy by the powers that be. The Archbishop of Florence, Cardinal Giuseppe Bertori, has become concerned that priests are conducting too many exorcisms. There's a danger, ...
