by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jul 3, 2021 / 11:50 am The Vatican’s court announced Saturday that it had indicted 10 individuals, including Cardinal Angelo Becciu, on charges including abuse of office, embezzlement, and fraud, and that a trial will begin July 27. What is the story behind the trial? …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jul 3, 2021 / 05:30 am The Vatican announced Saturday that Cardinal Angelo Becciu will be tried on charges of embezzlement and abuse of office. The Vatican court also announced it will hold a criminal trial against nine people and four corporations in connection with …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jul 1, 2021 / 07:00 am Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignation of Chicago auxiliary Bishop John R. Manz, who has dedicated his priesthood to advocating for immigrants. Bishop Manz turned 75 in November, the age at which bishops are required to send a …

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jun 24, 2021 / 12:00 pm Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago will conduct an apostolic visitation at the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Vatican said Thursday. The inspection will begin in a few days, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told journalists June 24. He …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jun 23, 2021 / 05:35 am People attending Pope Francis’ weekly audience on Wednesday, and those following via livestream, were surprised to see sitting among the crowd a man dressed head-to-toe in tight red and blue garb decorated with a silver web. Why was Spider-Man …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jun 21, 2021 / 09:00 am Pope Francis on Monday appointed 12 new members of the Vatican’s highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, including Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark. American Cardinal James Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jun 22, 2021 / 04:35 am The Vatican has intervened with the Italian state in a proposed “anti-homophobia” law, saying that the legislation as written violates freedoms of the Catholic Church in Italy. According to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, May 15, 2021 / 07:00 am America/Denver (CNA). A polyglot priest and founder of the Society of the Divine Savior was beatified at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on Saturday. Bl. Johan Baptist Jordan, also known by his religious name of Francis …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, May 10, 2021 / 04:10 am America/Denver (CNA). The Vatican’s human development office has created a working group on the topic of the expulsion of criminal organizations from the Catholic Church. The group was created in honor of Rosario Livatino, a Catholic judge killed by …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Apr 30, 2021 / 07:00 am America/Denver (CNA). Pope Francis on Friday amended part of a law issued last year regulating Vatican City’s judicial system, now allowing the court of first instance to rule on criminal trials of bishops and cardinals. The law previously said …