Vatican Dispatch

Alleged Rupnik victims say Church's pledge of 'zero tolerance' for sex abuse is mere PR campaign

rome – an open letter signed by five alleged victims of father marko rupnik, a former jesuit and renowned slovenian artist, asserts that rec...

Rupnik centre gets 'clean bill of health' from Diocese of Rome with doubts raised over excommunication

rome – despite being expelled in july from his jesuit order over charges of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse, famed slovenian artis...

Letter and Nazi dagger reopen debates over wartime role of Pope Pius XII

rome – two new discoveries regarding pope pius xii are rekindling debate over the role of the wartime pontiff, including a letter suggesting...

Vatican and China discuss resumption of grain exports from Russia and Ukraine

pope francis’s peace envoy has met government officials in china to discuss how to restart a deal to allow ukraine and russia to export grai...

"Putin's Pope"? A just or unjust title, there may be trouble ahead

rome – yesterday  crux  carried two stories which, at first blush, appear unrelated. the first concerned  the latest ukrainia...

Pope dismisses critics of Synod as 'ideological' with an 'incapacity for dialogue'

aboard the papal plane – pope francis warned against the influence of what he called “ideology” on an upcoming synod of bishops at the vatic...

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Pope Francis kicks off 'hot autumn' at the Vatican

rome – as summer winds down in rome and the city fills up with reluctant vacationers getting back to the grind, pope francis has kicked off ...

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Water in the desert: Pope Francis praises the faithfulness of the Church in Mongolia

ulaanbaatar – speaking to one of the catholic church’s smallest flocks, located in a region that has not always been hospitable to christian...

Pax Mongolica: Pope Francis praises the unifying legacy of Genghis Khan

ulaanbaatar – standing in a country that borders both russia and china, pope francis on saturday praised what he called mongolia’s foreign p...

Small is beautiful: Pope Francis's encouragement for Mongolian Catholics

ulaanbaatar – on his second full day in mongolia, pope francis met with pastors and missionaries who serve the country’s tiny catholic flock...