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Here’s what the defrocking of Vangheluwe suggests about the Rupnik scandal

March 22, 2024 Christopher R. Altieri 37

Thursday’s news about the defrocking of Roger Vangheluwe has given us an answer to a question raised with some palpable urgency by another high-profile scandal touching the very echelons of power in the Vatican. The […]

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The Election of Pope Francis is informative and captivating—and raises many questions

January 10, 2020 Conor Dugan 45

Gerard O’Connell is one of the top Vaticanistas working today. An associate editor and Vatican correspondent for America magazine, he has rightly earned a reputation for his fair and in-depth reporting. While his sympathies skew […]

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Ahead of abuse summit, lay people assemble in silent protest in Rome

February 20, 2019 Alessandra Nucci 2

Taxi drivers looked around to see what the matter was when anti-riot police units in full gear appeared on three corners of Rome’s busy St. Sylvester Square on Tuesday. It took a few minutes for […]

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Sending Abp Scicluna to Chile raises more questions than it answers

February 2, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 15

The Vatican is sending a highly-qualified investigator to examine the case against Bishop Barros. Is this an ad hoc response to bad press, or a […]

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The life and legacy of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor

September 12, 2017 Daniel Blackman 11

The former cardinal archbishop of Westminster, who died on September 1st, had a significant and sometimes controversial role in the Church in Britain for four […]

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