As part of Pope Benedict XVI’s campaign for transparency, the secretive Vatican bank gets an overhaul with Italian economist Ettori Tedeschi being appointed the new chief executive, replacing a predecessor that was in position for 20 years. The bank’s supervisory board has also been revamped. The venerable head of the Catholic Church has ‘shaken up [...]

On the Pope’s visit to Angola, he called for an end to wars, tribalism, corruption, and the eradication of greed. Those words describe the decades-long strife and misery in the continent. He also paid tribute to women and cultural values, aspects of the continent’s strength. In a statement over Vatican Radio, Benedict said that war [...]

The lifting of the excommunication that was earlier levied on the Holocaust denier Bishop Williamson was not a lack of communication but a mistake of the government of the Vatican. Even if the Pope did not know about the negation of Bishop Williamson and even if he is not anti-Semitic himself, everyone knows that the [...]

Richard Williamson, a Roman Catholic bishop who questioned the truth about the controversial Holocaust. The British born bishop caused outrage among the public in Argentina.
 Williamson who was living in Buenos Aires for five years now at St Pius X seminary was asked to leave the country within ten days. The bishop arrived at Heathrow airport [...]

The usual definition of Holocaust as “the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children, and million of others, by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II” is far from complete. The list of millions of other victims include the Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, political [...]

 
 
 
It is always difficult to take sides on this debate. The moral aspects involved simply are not in black and white.
Italy does not permit euthanasia. Patients have a right to refuse treatment, but there is no law that allows them to give advance directions on their treatment if became incapacitated. So when Eluana Englaro , 38, [...]

The Vatican states that Benedict XVI has already been very clear, but Chancellor Angela Merkel slams as inadequate the Vatican clarification on the reintegration of Bishop Richard Williamson who was earlier excommunicated. Williamson had explicitly declared doubts that the Jews were, indeed, mass executed during the Holocaust.
Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, had said that “the [...]

“Galileo was the first man with a telescope that looked into the sky. It opened for mankind a hitherto little-known world, expanding the boundaries of our knowledge and forcing us to reread the book of nature in a new look. The Church wants to honor the figure of Galileo, innovative, brilliant son of the Church,” [...]