Women in Vatican

The ‘two speed Church’ agenda for the synod

By Ed Condon, The Pillar, February 19, 2024 The second session of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will convene October 2 for another three week series of discussions and debates.  But while that second marathon session in Rome is still months away, the... read more

Remembering Wanda Półtawska, a Model of the Feminine Genius in the Postmodern World

By  Solène Tadié, National Catholic Register, October 31, 2023 Summarizing the life and work of a figure such as Wanda Półtawska is no easy task. One thing is certain: The last survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp “guinea pigs” will remain one of the main faces of resistance... read more

Vatican prosecutor seeks 7 years in prison, $15 million in cardinal’s financial trial

By Daniel Payne, Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency, July 26, 2023 The top public prosecutor for the Vatican on Wednesday asked the judge in Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s financial malfeasance trial to serve the embattled prelate with seven years and three months in prison and to... read more

Rupnik superior: ‘From an ecclesial point of view it’s illegal’ for priest to own business

By Walter Sanchez Silva, ACI Prensa Staff/Catholic News Agency, April 27, 2023 Father Johan Verschueren, the superior of Father Marko Rupnik, a Jesuit priest and artist accused of sexually abusing numerous nuns, explained that from an ecclesial point of view it is “illegal” for Rupnik... read more

‘Confusion, control and abuse’: Report offers new details about Jean Vanier’s secret sect and sexual exploitation

By Katie Collins Scott, National Catholic Reporter, January 30, 2023 When revelations emerged nine months after his 2019 death that Jean Vanier — a philosopher, author and activist once deemed a living saint — had sexually and spiritually abused women, his legacy was... read more

The War Between the Catholic Cardinals

By Ross Douthat, New York Times, January 28, 2023 The death of the pope emeritus, Benedict XVI, was succeeded by a small literary outpouring, a rush of publications that were interpreted as salvos in the Catholic Church’s civil war. The list includes a memoir by Benedict’s longtime... read more

Throwing St. John Paul II Under the Bus

By E. Christian Brugger, the Catholic Thing, August 13, 2022 The Pontifical Academy for Life is no longer what it was under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Under its present leader, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the Academy has undertaken some irresponsible initiatives, but none worse... read more

The problem with women helping select bishops is not what you think it is

Pope Francis’s decision to appoint two women to the Dicastery for Bishops was devoid of consultation – and from a pontiff who is constantly tooting the horn for “collegiality” and “synodality.” By Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Catholic World Report, July 9, 2022 When word... read more

TLM Typo: Vatican Says ‘Extraordinary Form’ Mention in New Constitution was a Mistake

Addressing the use of the term 'extraordinary form,' Bishop Mellino said that article 93 should have been reformulated before its publication. By Courtney Mares/CNA, National Catholic Register, March 22, 2022 VATICAN CITY — A Vatican cardinal said on Monday that the inclusion of the words... read more

Top Vatican cardinal talks celibacy, abuse, clericalism, and women

By Elise Ann Allen, Crux, February 18, 2022|ROME – Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, who is presiding over a high-profile Vatican symposium on the theology of the priesthood, has spoken out on a range of hot-button issues, including clericalism, the abuse crisis, and the call for women’s... read more

Bishop apologizes to fired LGBT Catholic educator at theology gathering

By Joshua J. McElwee, National Catholic Reporter, June 8, 2021 Margie Winters, a former educator at Waldron Mercy Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania, who was fired because she is married to a woman, speaks June 4 during a session of the College Theology Society's annual gathering. (NCR... read more