Car With Vatican Plates Carrying Drugs Caught In France
A car with license plates registered to The Vatican was stopped in the French Alps carrying nine pounds of cocaine and 20 ounces of pot, and two Italian men are in jail, Daily Mail is reporting. The car, a Jaguar, is the personal vehicle of Argentinian ...
French Police Find 9 Pounds Of Cocaine In A Vatican Car
APPope Francis blesses the faithful from the backseat of his car as he leaves the Quirinale Presidential palace. Police in France found cocaine and marijuana in a vehicle with Holy See diplomatic plates belonging to Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia. Pope Francis ...
91-Year-Old Vatican Worker’s Car Found to Contain Kilos of Cocaine
An official Vatican car with diplomatic license plates was recently stopped in the French Alps, containing a trunk-full of items you might not expect to find inside a 91-year-old Vatican official’s vehicle. Local reports say the car, belonging to ...
Vatican Car Stopped at French Border With 4 Kilos of Cocaine
A diplomatic Vatican car was stopped at a France border checkpoint carrying four kilos of cocaine with an estimated street value of $817,000. The car apprehended is a Jaguar owned by Cardinal Jorge Melia, a 91-year-old Vatican library who is currently ...
Middle East Church leaders to UN : Protect us
2014-09-17 Vatican Radio - The leaders of the Churches in the Middle East have appealed to the United Nations to protect minorities in Iraq and Syria from the “massacres and atrocities” being committed by ISIS. Addressing the UN in Geneva, the Patriarchs of the Eastern Churches said that if not stro ...
US Bishops on peace pilgrimage to Holy Land
2014-09-17 Vatican Radio - A delegation of 18 U.S. bishops have been in the Holy Land since September 10 to pray for peace. The “Pilgrimage for Peace” has visited and prayed at the various holy sites in Jerusalem, Galilee, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (US ...
Caritas Intl on Mideast crisis: aid to victims, not militants
2014-09-17 Vatican Radio Caritas Internationalis, the confederation of Catholic aid and development agencies wrapped up a high level meeting in Rome Wednesday discussing how to best respond to the humanitarian crises enveloping the Middle East. The September 15-17 meeting brought together directors ...
Is Prayer Worth the Effort?
During the past month two middle-aged friends died of cancer. For years I had been praying for their full recovery...but they died (peacefully in both cases). Was the prayer a wasted effort? Few scientifically-rigorous surveys have been done of the efficacy of intercessory prayer. One of the most fa ...
Pope Francis vows to promote more useless people
In a striking breach with Catholic tradition, Pope Francis has promised to demote the reliable, orthodox clergy who hold very senior positions in the Roman Curia, and to appoint a number of useless time-servers instead. It is believed that in the more egalitarian church of Francis, one should not be ...
Moral Culpability: Vaccines and Cheese & Crackers (Updated)
There’s been a lot of buzz for a long time over vaccinations, and some Catholic parents have chosen not to vaccinate over a fear of being morally complicit if they use vaccines that were developed using a line of stem cells derived from abortions done 40+ years ago. The Vatican considered the use of ...
