The Catholic Church will soon get its first millennial saint, an Italian teenager who designed websites for the church, Pope Francis announced Wednesday. Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old who died of leukemia in 2006, will be canonized in April next year, the pope said at his weekly audience in the Vatican. Acutis was beatified in 2020 … Read more
Other countries are likely to be pulled into the Italian investigation. Calamucci, who previously boasted of penetrating the Pentagon with the Anonymous hacktivist collective, frequently referenced dozens of hackers working for him in Colchester, England. The firm also made use of servers in the United States and Lithuania, where they felt they were less vulnerable, according … Read more
Rome — A major Vatican meeting gathering clerics and laity across the globe to discuss the future of the Catholic Church closes this weekend, thwarting discussion of women becoming priests or deacons in the world’s largest Christian denomination. But that didn’t stop a half-dozen Catholic women from “ordination” in a secret ceremony in Rome that … Read more
Others say the field of discussion has been narrowed to the point of meaninglessness. “Given that the Synod is about developing processes of communication, discernment, and decision-making within the church, it would be surprising for anything substantive to arise from it — on LGBTQ+ or other issues,” said Cristina Traina, a progressive activist and assistant … Read more
The remarks came at the close of an extraordinary papal trip to Belgium during which both the country’s king and prime minister excoriated the pope for the failure of the Catholic Church to deal with child abuse and urged him to do more. “Words alone are not enough, concrete steps must also be taken,” PM … Read more
Gmür, the beleaguered bishop of Basel, was among those in attendance. He recalled a discussion in which African bishops sought allowances for polygamy — asking, in particular, whether a man would have to leave all his wives in order to convert — while some European participants sought canonical recognition of LGBTQ+ rights. “We did conclude that … Read more
By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Saturday, June 22, 2024 Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, above, reads the Apostolic Mandate during the Installation Mass of Archbishop Blase Cupich at Holy Name Cathedral, on Nov. 18, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. | Getty Images/Charles Rex Arbogast Roman Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 83, who served as the Vatican’s … Read more
By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Friday, June 07, 2024 Historic St. Paul’s Catholic in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, was built in 1865, according to its website. | Screenshot/Google Maps A Roman Catholic parish in Kentucky is offering scheduled blessings for same-sex couples despite the Vatican’s recent directive that such blessings should be spontaneous. Historic St. … Read more
In hindsight, Carlo Acutis might have appeared as any other typical teenager: engrossed in school, socializing with friends, and spending considerable time on his computer at home. Yet, what set him apart from his peers was an unwavering devotion to his faith, a commitment that would profoundly impact both his own life and the global … Read more
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Friday overhauled its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena that have marked church history, putting the brakes on making definitive declarations unless the event is obviously fabricated. The Vatican’s doctrine office revised norms first issued in 1978, arguing that … Read more
