Fr Lombardi: words in Scalfari interview ‘cannot be attributed to the pope’
The Vatican has said that a recent interview with pope Francis in which he talks about sex abuse should not be considered a record of his exact works. In the article, published yesterday in the Rome...
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The Church of England’s decision to ordain women bishops is “a further obstacle on the path” to unity, English Catholic Archbishop Bernard Longley has said. The massive influx of unaccompanied Central...
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The Vatican is revising canon law on penalties for abuse. Fifty-two priests have been laicised in England and Wales since 2001, according to the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission. Caritas...
View ArticleAtheist interviewer asked Pope Francis to bless his family
The 90-year-old Italian atheist who twice interviewed Pope Francis has revealed that he asked the Pope to bless his family. Eugenio Scalfari, one of Italy’s most prominent atheist intellectuals and for...
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Pope Francis has discussed Donald Trump, immigrants and the poor in a new interview with La Repubblica’s Eugenio Scalfari (Italian text). More than 20 million pilgrims have visited Rome during the Year...
View Article‘I don’t judge politicians’: Pope Francis skirts Trump question
Pope Francis has declined to offer any comment about Donald Trump in a new interview, but said he was concerned about how political policies may affect the lives of the poor. The interview with Eugenio...
View ArticleDon’t trust the claims that Pope Francis doesn’t believe in hell
Italy’s daily La Repubblica newspaper ran another “colloquy” this morning, between the paper’s 93-year-old atheist founder, Eugenio Scalfari, and the 81-year-old Bishop of Rome, Francis. To hear...
View ArticleVatican distances itself from claim that Pope doesn’t believe in hell
The Pope says Hell doesn’t exist – this was the shock news in an Italian newspaper on Thursday. Eugenio Scalfari, co-founder and first editor of Repubblica, published his latest conversation with Pope...
View ArticleWhy on earth does Pope Francis still trust Eugenio Scalfari?
To call this latest one a head-scratcher is to put oneself in the running for understatement of the year. The facts are that Eugenio Scalfari, the 93-year-old atheist founder of Italy’s centre-left...
View ArticleCardinal Burke: Scalfari interview on hell was ‘profound scandal’
The fallout from the Pope’s interview with Eugenio Scalfari, in which he apparently cast doubt on the existence of hell, is “beyond tolerable”, Cardinal Raymond Burke has said. Scalfari, the co-founder...
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