A man stripped naked and urinated on the ‘Altar of Confession’ at St. Peter’s Basilica, resulting in his swift detainment and arrest. Accoriding to Il Tempo, an Italian paper: It is likely the altar will have to be reconsecrated following the desecration.
The Vatican has relaxed rules that previously barred men with “deep-seated homosexual tendencies” from entering the priesthood, with a new document from the Bishops Conference of Italy allowing gay men to pursue and enter seminary so long as they commit to being celibate, according to Reuters and other news outlets,
The Vatican has apologized for removing a link to a prominent pro-LGBTQ advocacy group from their website after a bunch of rainbow-stained outrage, restoring the URL and offering a ‘mea culpa’ that they ever removed it in the first place. On the Vatican webpage under a ‘resources” page, there was
According to reports from The Pillar, a Roman Catholic news organization that specializes in investigative journalism, through a 26-week period in 2018 their team pulled the signal data from mobile phones in cloistered parts of the Vatican. This showed dozens of devices were “emitted serially occurring hookup or dating app
LifeSite News has launched a petition against the Vatican for hosting a “Health” Conference on “Exploring the Mind, Body, and Soul,” explaining, “Everything about the conference is rotten — morally, scientifically, and culturally,” and amassing over 22,000 signatures calling for its cancellation. Despite being populated by Roman Catholics and having an
The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture has invited a series of pro-choice guests to speak at their May conference, an event that features “the world’s leading physicians, scientists, leaders of faith, ethicists, patient advocates, policymakers, philanthropists, and influences” who will “engage in powerful conversations on the latest breakthroughs in medicine,
In a move that would have Tetzel spinning in his grave, the Vatican has released their budget, balance sheet, and earnings statement for the first time in nearly 5 years, a move prompted by the insistence on more financial transparency after several high-profile financial scandals. The Economy Prefect Rev. Juan
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