#Vatican charges 10 with fraud, extortion in real estate scheme

#Vatican charges 10 with fraud, extortion in real estate scheme

“#Vatican charges 10 with fraud, extortion in real estate scheme” The Vatican’s criminal tribunal announced charges Saturday morning against 10 people, relating to the Secretariat of State’s participation in an investment fund and purchase of a building in London, according to reports. Five Vatican ex-officials, including Cardinal Angelo Becciu, were indicted, along with Italian businessmen…

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#Vatican seeks all-out effort to combat vaccine hesitancy

#Vatican seeks all-out effort to combat vaccine hesitancy

“#Vatican seeks all-out effort to combat vaccine hesitancy” Enlarge Image Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council of Life, speaks to reporters during a press conference, at the Vatican. AP ROME — The Vatican’s bioethics academy and the World Medical Association on Friday called for an all-out effort to combat vaccine hesitancy and…

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#Canada Day muted as country reckons with colonial history

#Canada Day muted as country reckons with colonial history

“#Canada Day muted as country reckons with colonial history” OTTAWA, July 1 – Multiple cities scrapped Canada Day celebrations on Thursday after the discovery of hundreds of remains of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools sparked a reckoning with the country’s colonial past. Calls to scale back or cancel celebrations snowballed after, beginning in May, almost 1,000 unmarked graves were…

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#Polish church report lists sex abuse of over 300 children

#Polish church report lists sex abuse of over 300 children

“#Polish church report lists sex abuse of over 300 children” WARSAW, Poland — In its latest report released Monday on the sexual abuse of minors, Poland’s Catholic Church lists 292 clergymen who are alleged to have abused over 300 boys and girls from 1958 through 2020. The cases were reported to church authorities from mid-2018…

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#,000 gold cross stolen from NYC church: sources

#$10,000 gold cross stolen from NYC church: sources

“#$10,000 gold cross stolen from NYC church: sources” He needs a refresher on “thou shalt not steal.” Police sources say a man ignored that commandment on Friday — and stole a $10,000 gold cross from a Bronx church. The unidentified suspect walked into St. Barnabas Roman Catholic Church in Woodlawn Heights at around 8 a.m….

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#Vatican looks to block Italy’s anti-homophobia law

#Vatican looks to block Italy’s anti-homophobia law

“#Vatican looks to block Italy’s anti-homophobia law” The Vatican is pushing Italy to block a proposed anti-homophobia law making its way through the European country’s parliament over concerns it’ll clash with Catholic practices, reports said. Archbishop Paul Gallagher wrote a letter to Italian government officials last week looking for changes to the so-called Zan Law,…

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#Vatican regulates lay movements to prevent governance abuses

#Vatican regulates lay movements to prevent governance abuses

“#Vatican regulates lay movements to prevent governance abuses” ROME — The Vatican took steps Friday to better regulate Catholic lay religious movements by imposing term limits on their leaders and requiring internal elections to be representative of their memberships. The Vatican’s laity office cracked down on the largely unregulated world of international associations of the…

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