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...Bookcases lay in disarray around the room, their volumes — The Catholic Encyclopedia, Conversations with Saint Josemaría Escrivá — covered in dust....
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...Late last month Pope Francis asked Cardinal Becciu to resign — relieving him of his position as the man in charge of overseeing the canonisation of Catholic saints — as a result of allegations about the...
...The indictment of Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who until last year was the cardinal overseeing the body in charge of selecting Catholic saints, marks a dramatic acceleration of Pope Francis’s drive to reform...
...They have day jobs teaching or doing charity or social work, emulating the life of Francis of Assisi, their founding saint....
...The cardinal, who denies wrongdoing, lost his job as head of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Vatican agency that oversees canonisations....
...Becciu, who up until last year was in charge of the Vatican’s office for deciding who becomes a Catholic saint, had fiercely denied any wrongdoing....
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...He should be answerable now on Catholic paedophilia, too briskly condemned; on gay rights, kicked once more into the pastoral long grass; and on the eternal Holy See dilemma of whether to participate in...
...So it wasn’t as if it was a triumphalist display of Catholic Ireland at its zenith. It was that they knew.” Can Pope Francis make a difference now to the situation of the Irish church?...
...In Saint Peter’s Square last week at Pope Francis’ general audience, the Catholic faithful seemed untroubled by the backlash, and satisfied with their leader....
...This led to her beatification in 2003 — the first step towards becoming a saint under the rules of the Catholic Church....
...In the old Roman Catholic faith, the year was shaped around high days and holy days, saint’s day after saint’s day: different memories for different kinds of sanctity and martyrdom....
...“This sad fact [of the books] will certainly not divert me from the reform work that we are pursuing with my collaborators and with the support of all of you,” Pope Francis told a crowd in Saint Peter’s...
...Vatican officials made a startling discovery shortly after Pope Francis was elected in 2013: outside payments were routinely made to a small office in the Holy See to boost the prospects of a candidate for...
...Pope Francis, who was elected in 2013, has declared that there should be “zero tolerance” against perpetrators of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, after years of criticism that the Vatican has been...
...“It might sound kitsch but there was something of Saint Francis about him,” Frias Filho commented. “Everywhere Glauco went, the children and animals seemed to follow him.”...
...Pope John Paul II promulgated it in 1988, since when it has served as the essential reference point for Holy See governance. Meanwhile, Pope Francis has been anything but inactive....
...“Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II co-operated with the Holy Spirit in renewing and updating the Church,” said Pope Francis in his homily, calling them “men of courage”....
...A medieval tradition linked the incorruptibility of a holy person’s body with proof of purity of life; there are some leathery, off-colour examples under the altars of Catholic churches around Europe, lying...
...of regulators because of their business relationships with the Holy See....
...Jorge Mario Bergoglio, almost unknown to the world before his ascent this spring to the chair of Saint Peter after the sudden abdication of Pope Benedict XVI, is creating a real stir in the Roman Catholic...
...… Pope Francis will also have to tackle other powerful economic institutions, namely the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See (APSA)...
...If the Catholic Church were just any organisation, the descriptions of Pope Francis that emerged in the press this week – a “friend of the poor”, a “very holy man”, the “most deeply spiritual man in the...
...Across Catholic Europe, bits of bone and hair of blesseds and saints are treasured in satin-lined gilt receptacles....
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