CPAC Hungary — short for the nation's conservative political action conference — kicked off in Budapest this morning, with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán opening the event with a cure for what he calls the "virus" of woke ideologies. The prime minister delivered a rousing keynote speech to a packed house at the conference venue on the shores of the Danube. Read more
The Vatican has held talks with Hindu leaders with the goal of building a "new humanism" by drawing together Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti (All Brothers) with the contested Hindu concept of "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" (the whole cosmos is one family). On Wednesday, the Vatican's Dicastery for Interfaith Dialogue joined with representatives from the Hindu Forum of Europe and the Italian Hindu Union for a meeting on the theme of "Hindus and Christians in Europe: Building together a 'fraternity-based new humanism.'" Read more
Children in Switzerland are being used as guinea pigs at the hands of a conglomeration of companies that sell bugs for human consumption. Students in a middle school outside Zurich, the country's largest city, were recently presented with an array of finger foods made up of insects, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. Read more
Pope Francis is warning freedom is under threat in Europe owing to consumerism and individualism. Reflecting at Wednesday's General Audience on his recent trip to Hungary, the pontiff discussed his visit through two images: roots and bridges. Read more
Catholic priests in the traditionally Catholic stronghold of Goa are endorsing a syncretistic festival that recasts the Blessed Virgin Mary as a Hindu goddess. During a local festival known as "Our Lady of Miracles," celebrated on the third Monday of Easter, clergy from St. Jerome's Church in the town of Mapusa, erect an image of Mary for Hindus to worship by bathing the statue in oil. Read more
Pope Francis is parroting revisionist history that alleges artifacts in the Vatican Museums may have been stolen from indigenous peoples. "The Seventh Commandment comes to mind: If you steal something, you have to give it back," Francis told an airborne press conference on his return trip from Hungary on Sunday. Read more
Female preachers in Germany will occupy pulpits and preach during Holy Mass on the so-called Feast of St. Junia, in defiance of canon law and a recent Vatican directive forbidding lay preaching at Masses. Read more
The Church's eldest daughter is celebrating the beatification of five French priests martyred by communist-styled, atheistic forces in 1871. The priests were beatified this past Sunday at the historic Saint-Sulpice Church in Paris, near the very spot on Rue Haxo where they were executed over 150 years ago. Read more
An ultra-conservative religious congregation, sanctioned by Pope Francis when he was cardinal primate of Argentina, is covering up the sexual crimes of its Argentine founder who died in Genoa on Sunday The Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), which operates in 44 countries, airbrushed out the serial homosexual predations of Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela on its multiple websites when it announced that the founder had "died completely surrendered to the holy will of God." Read more
Pope Francis introduced four modifications to the Synod on Synodality, including voting rights for men and women among religious and laity. Today the Vatican announced the four modifications to the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which Pope Francis has dubbed the Synod on Synodality. Read more
The Holy See is continuing to draw a veil over the "invisible" children of thousands of priests, despite three United Nations reports asking the Vatican to protect the rights of children fathered by clerics. Rome has failed to respond nearly a decade after the U.N. directed the Holy See to "assess the number of children fathered by Catholic priests" and "find out who they are." Read more
The Pontifical Academy for Life has categorically affirmed its commitment to life and rejected suggestions that it is on a slippery slope in support of assisted suicide. The categorical affirmation came after a social media firestorm that accused academy president Abp. Vincenzo Paglia of abandoning the Church's position on assisted suicide in a talk he delivered at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia on April 19. Read more
Jesuit celebrity artist Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, who is accused of sexually abusing over 25 nuns, is the owner of an art installation company raking in millions. In defiance of his vow of poverty, Rupnik owns 90% of a LLC registered in Italy, which recorded a turnover of €1.17 million and a profit of €119,607 in 2022, according to Italian newspaper Domani. Read more
An Anglican bishop has triggered outrage after celebrating Mass in the Roman Rite at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran — the official ecclesiastical seat of the pope as bishop of Rome. Bishop Jonathan Baker, a suffragan bishop in the diocese of London, concelebrated the liturgy on Tuesday at what's known as the "mother of all the churches of Rome and of the world" with over 30 Anglican priests from the episcopal area of Fulham. Read more
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is stepping away from Twitter after being labeled "government-funded media" by Twitter's CEO, Elon Musk. The organization announced the move on Monday, pausing activity on all its accounts after asking Twitter to re-examine the characterization. Read more