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Francis Jokes With Surgeon After Three-Hour Operation
Dr. Sergio Alfieri, who operated on Pope Francis, assured the media on Wednesday evening that the Holy Father "will be able to lead a normal life" following a three-hour operation for an incarcerated incisional hernia. At a historic press conference after the procedure, Alfieri said Francis had a "benign disease" and "has no other diseases." Read more
Church Protests Play Exposing Sexual Affairs of Nuns
Kerala's Catholic Church wants a play about convent abuse and nuns as lesbians and priests' lovers banned. Sister Vandana Daisy of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate remarked that "Kakkukali" shows the Church "taking advantage of poverty to recruit girls to convents and deploy them for free labor." Read more
Pope Showcases Jesuit Abuser’s Art in Video on Mary
Pope Francis is displaying the artwork of Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, a personal friend and fellow Jesuit who has been accused of sexually assaulting around 25 religious sisters. Despite calls from victims of sexual abuse for the predator priest's mosaic artworks to be removed from cathedrals and churches, Francis used a Rupnik symbol of Mary to offer papal congratulations to the XVI Marian Congress in Aparecida, Brazil, in a brief video address. Read more
Indian Priests Snap Porn Pictures of Nuns, Teachers
The cardinal-archbishop of Bombay, Oswald Gracias, who is one of Pope Francis' closest advisors, has been confronted with pornographic pictures of nuns and teachers photographed by senior Indian priests. Lay leaders from the Association of Concerned Catholics (AOCC), who obtained these pornographic pictures, confronted Gracias with the nude images on April 14 and threatened to release the photographs to the international media if the priests were not defrocked. Read more
US Embassy to Holy See Flaunts ‘Progress Pride Flag’
Catholics are expressing outrage on social media after the United States Embassy to the Holy See paraded a Progress Pride Flag on the façade of its embassy building in Rome. The embassy, headed by pro-abortion and pro- LGBTQI+ ambassador Joseph Donnelly, displayed images of the offensive flag on its Twitter and Facebook platforms on Thursday, trumpeting its support for #pridemonth #humanrights and #inclusion. Read more
SSPX ‘Horror’ Trial: Superior Knew, Kept Predator in Ministry
The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) knew of abuse allegations against a priest but kept him in ministry and failed to report him to police. Father Pierre de Maillard is on trial in La Roche-Sur-Yon, in western France, accused of abusing 27 children over the course of 25 years. Some are likening the trial to a "horror film" because of the facts revealed during victim testimony. Read more
Crisis of Faith in the Land of Saints and Scholars
The latest census in Ireland reveals an alarming downward trajectory in the practice of Catholicism but a corresponding rise in the practice of other religions. In its key findings, Census 2022 reported, "The proportion of the population who identified Roman Catholic as their religion fell from 79% in 2016 to 69% in 2022." Read more
Overturned Verdict: Maltese Priest Sentenced for ‘Homophobic’ Remarks Following Brutal Murder Case
A popular Maltese priest has been found guilty of so-called homophobic hate speech on social media after being acquitted in 2022. Dominican priest Fr. David Muscat was handed a six-month suspended sentence this week after Malta's Court of Criminal Appeal overturned the original acquittal. Read more
New Uganda Law: Life Imprisonment for Having Gay Sex
Yesterday, news broke that Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which criminalizes gay sex and confers life imprisonment and the death penalty for so-called aggravated homosexuality. Annually, the United States provides approximately $1 billion in health and developmental assistance to Uganda. However, this aid may be halted due to Uganda's opposition to the LGBT agenda. Read more
Vatican Cautions Against ‘Social Media Divide’
The Vatican is urging Christians to "weave relationships" on social media and avoid what it calls "social media divide" months after Pope Francis challenged his critics to criticize people to their faces. On Sunday, the Vatican Dicastery for Communication published a piece titled "Towards Full Presence: A Pastoral Reflection on Engagement with Social Media" to address some of the main questions regarding how Christians should behave on social media. Read more
Clerical Sex Abuse Revelations Explode Across Bolivia
Bolivia's president is warning Pope Francis of grave consequences for the Church after multiple exposés of predator priests abusing minors rocked the predominantly Catholic country in May. In a four-page letter addressed to "Brother Francis" on Monday, President Luis Arce expressed "shock and outrage" at the revelations and demanded that the pontiff instruct the Bolivian hierarchy to release diocesan secret files on sexually abuser priests. Read more
Hungarian PM Advocates Christian-Muslim Cooperation
The prime minister of Hungary did more than just talk about money at the Qatar Economic Forum (QEF) in the capital city of the Middle Eastern country this week — he broached controversial topics such as Christian-Muslim cooperation and peace in Ukraine. Viktor Orbán, who traveled to Doha to attend the QEF by invitation of his Qatari counterpart, His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, joined a wide array of heads of state and business leaders. The three-day forum, backed by the left-leaning billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg, was titled "A New Global Growth Story." Read more
Head of Pope’s Sex Abuse Council Sued for Cover-Up
Three former Catholic students are suing Cdl. Seán O'Malley, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, for covering up alleged sex abuse by a former principal of the Arlington Catholic School. The lawsuit against the cardinal, who heads the Boston archdiocese where clerical sex abuse scandals first exploded in 2002, was filed on May 5 — a day after O'Malley admitted that the commission has been "the subject of intense criticism both internally and externally." Read more
Cardinal Urges Humanae Vitae Forum to Be ‘Inclusive’
Italy's top cardinal and potential successor to Pope Francis is urging a congress on Humanae Vitae to reject groupthink on the 1968 papal encyclical prohibiting artificial contraception. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, exhorted participants at the international conference called "Humanae Vitae: The Audacity of an Encyclical on Sexuality and Procreation" to "avoid working within closed and homogenized circles." Read more
