Vatican City
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Central Europe
Polish journalists reject accusation of Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II did not hide the sexual misconduct of his priests. That is the conclusion of two Polish journalists who reject the accusation of the late Pope by a Dutch news reporter. Polish journalists Tomasz Krzyzak and Piotr Litka write so in an article on the Polish news…
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Pope Francis compares Ukrainian war with Holocaust
Pope Francis compared the war in Ukraine to the Holocaust of the Second World War. He referred in particular to the Reinhard operation in Poland. During that event, up to two million people were killed. Most victims were Jewish. The Pope talked to Roman Catholic believers in Poland on Wednesday…
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Southern Europe
Hackers target Vatican website
The website of the Vatican went down for a while on Wednesday and Thursday. Experts suspect that the Russians are behind the cyberattack. The Holy See took down its main website Vatican.ca because of an apparent attack to hack the website, a spokesperson said, according to Catholic News Agency. Vatican.ca…
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Eastern Europe
Catholic leader of Ukraine shatters the Pope's “romantic ideas” about Russia
Supreme Archbishop Schevtchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has criticised the Pope's statement about the Russian writer Dostoevsky. The Pope previously said that the author was an example of Russian humanism. That led to many critiques from the Ukrainian side. During an audience, the Ukrainian Greek leader asked Pope…
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Southern Europe
“Evidence that Pope John Paul II hid sexual abuse is very convincing”
The late pope John Paul II knew as Archbishop of Krakow of several cases of child abuse, committed by priests. That is reported by journalist Ekke Overbeek in the Dutch daily Trouw. Overbeek researched Polish archives for three years. “I found concrete cases of concrete priests in the archdiocese of…
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Southern Europe
Pope condemns supporters of conspiracy theories
Pope Francis has sharply condemned supporters of conspiracy theories at Sunday's Mass at St. Peter's Basilica. The head of the Roman Catholic Church called on people not to be misled by “prophets of doom” and “sirens of populism.” According to him, they exploited people's needs and only proposed simple and…
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Eastern Europe
Pope should have read Dostoevsky better, says Ukrainian diplomat
The Pope would have known how cruel the Russians were if he had read Dostoevsky carefully. That said the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States. This statement by the diplomat attracted much attention the last few days. Pope Francis said last Sunday that he highly appreciates the Russian people and…
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Pope Francis does not want the German Catholic Church to “become Protestant”
Pope Francis does not want the Roman Catholic Church in Germany to be as progressive as the Protestant denomination in the country. “I say to German Catholics: Germany has a large and beautiful Protestant Church. I wouldn't want another, which won't be as good as the other”, he said on…
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Southern Europe
Pope appoints pro-abortion economist to pro-life Academy
Pope Francis appointed fourteen new members to the Pontifical Academy for Life, dedicated to promoting the Church's life ethic. However, one of the appointees is an outspoken abortion advocate. The Italian-American economist Mariana Mazzucato, known for her work promoting the public sector's role in encouraging innovation, was appointed on Saturday…
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Southern Europe
German Cardinal calls Roman Catholic Synod “heresy of Arianism”
The World Synod of the Roman Catholic Church is incompatible with its doctrines, the German Cardinal Gerhard Müller said in an interview with the global Catholic television station EWTN. According to Müller, the Synod is more like a political election program, which can change if the electorate wishes. Pope Francis…