The Vatican

The Vatican’s 2020 Nativity scene is a bizarre collection of ugly pieces that include an astronaut and an executioner wearing a horned mask. Furthermore, the entire thing is replete with occult symbolism. Here’s a look at this puzzling display. And, once the red drape covering the scene was removed, the crowd discovered a towering, brutalist, and totem-like Angel Gabriel staring back at them, along with an ...

For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret. That company was secretly run by the CIA, which had the ability to read all those communications for decades. Greg Miller at the Washington Post: The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machines for ...

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Luigi Ventura, the Holy See's ambassador to France, who has been accused of sexual molestation, the Vatican said on Tuesday.   Ventura last week turned 75, the age at which all bishops are obliged to hand in their resignations to the pope. Francis sometimes accepts them quickly, as in Ventura's case, and sometimes keeps people in their jobs ...

The Vatican made an official statement that disappointed many people worldwide when they communicated that they are refusing to go forward with the laboratory tests required by a consultant of the Orlandi family on the huge number of bones accidentally found during the search for Emanuela Orlandi in two ossuaries adjacent to the tombs investigated at the Teutonic cemetery. The consultant of the Orlandi family was ...

Finance and Technology Experts David Fergusson and Carlos Moreira Join Academic, Corporate, Policy and Religious Leaders to Deliberate ‘Technology and Human Flourishing’ VATICAN CITY & ROME, ITALY / ACCESSWIRE / July 29, 2019 / ​Humanity 2.0, a non-profit human progress accelerator and social impact initiative with the support of the Pontifical Lateran University at the Vatican, announces a dynamic forum, ​Technology and Human Flourishing, ​to be held ...

The Vatican’s third most powerful official has been convicted in Australia on all charges he sexually abused two choir boys there in the late '90s, according to two sources with knowledge of the case. A unanimous jury returned its verdict for Cardinal George Pell on Tuesday (Australian time) after more than three days of deliberations, the sources said, in a trial conducted under a gag order by the ...

A former Vatican official has claimed Pope Francis had known about allegations of sex abuse against a prominent cardinal in the US for years. As the pontiff ended his historic two-day visit to Ireland, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano called on him to quit over his response to the global scandal still enveloping the Church. Francis used a speech at Mass in Phoenix Park in Dublin on ...

At least 547 members of a prestigious Catholic boys' choir in Germany were physically or sexually abused between 1945 and 1992, according to Weber's report. Allegations involving the Domspatzen choir in Regensburg, which was run for 30 years by Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI's elder brother, were among a spate of revelations of abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Germany that emerged in 2010. In 2015, lawyer ...

On July 2, Leo Zagami published a sensational report detailing how Francesco Coccopalmerio, a key adviser to Pope Francis, was reportedly linked to a gay, cocaine-fueled orgy inside the Vatican. The Daily Mail would pick up the story 3 days later: Vatican police have broken up a gay orgy at the home of the secretary to one of Pope Francis's key advisers, it has been reported ...

Politicians and some church leaders in Chile have demanded the resignation of Juan Barros, Pope Francis’s tapped appointment as bishop of Osorno on January 10th, 2015 (took effect on March 21st) in southern Chile, following allegations that he helped cover up – and at times participated in – abuse against minors by his longtime mentor, a priest called Fernando Karadima. This, in spite of the fact ...