Vatican Appoints Judges to Decide Rupnik Sexual Abuse Case

The five judges, who include women and clerics, do not hold any position in the Roman Curia — the Vatican’s governing body — to ensure their autonomy and independence in the penal judicial procedure. The Vatican’s doctrine office announced Monday...

Palace braces for more days of pain over Prince Andrew as King Charles' Vatican visit risks being overshadowed by Virginia Giuffre memoir

The Royal Family is bracing for more days of pain over the Prince Andrew scandal ahead of the publication of a posthumous memoir from his teenage sex accuser Virginia Giuffre. Andrew, 65, last week finally fell on his sword and announced he would...

Vatican Urges Christians & Hindus to Build Peace

The Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue has released its 2025 Deepavali greeting, extending warm wishes to Hindu communities celebrating the festival of lights on 20 October and encouraging believers to deepen friendship and...

Vatican announces formal nomination of judges for Rupnik trial

The Vatican confirmed that Pope Leo had an audience the ECA without saying what was discussed

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Vatican appoints judges to hear Rupnik case

ROME – The Vatican announced on Monday that a panel of judges has been appointed to hear the case of Father Marko Rupnik, a Slovenian priest accused of serial sexual, psychological, and spiritual abuse of dozens of victims, after a review of...

The visit of King Charles to the Vatican – its significance and a timeline

By Catherine Pepinster The state visit of the King and Queen Camilla to the Vatican to meet Pope Leo on Thursday (23 October) will be an historic occasion – the monarch and the leader of the Roman Catholic Church will pray together in the Sistine...

Pashinyan visits Armenian embassies in Italy, Vatican

October 20, 2025 - 11:32 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the Embassy of Armenia in Italy, where he toured the premises accompanied by Ambassador Vladimir Karapetyan and met with the diplomatic staff. Ambassador...

Vatican names judges for trial of former Jesuit artist Rupnik accused of abuse by over 20 women

ROME – The Vatican took the unusual step on Monday of announcing that it had named judges to decide the fate of a famous ex-Jesuit artist, whose mosaics decorate basilicas around the world and who was accused by more than two dozen women of...

Vatican announces formal nomination of judges in Father Rupnik trial

9 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Three months after Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said the Vatican had identified the judges who would form the tribunal in the canonical trial against Slovenian Father Marko Rupnik on charges of spiritual and sexual...

‘Good practice’: Vatican supports diocese’s synodal approach

Bishop Michael Kennedy (Maitland-Newcastle Diocese) The Vatican’s Synod office has recognised the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese’s approach to synodality and governance as “good practice”. Bishop Michael Kennedy wrote a letter to the faithful of the...

Pope Leo is becoming the climate champion we need | Mark Gongloff

While the leader of 340 million Americans furiously works to derail climate action, the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics is embracing it. Mark Gongloff In May, when Pope Leo XIV succeeded the late Pope Francis, I suggested he could be the kind of...

Pope to educators: 'Make schools laboratories of prophecy and hope'

On All Saints' Day, during the celebration in which he proclaimed St John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church and co-patron of the world of education. 'Let us work together to free humanity from the darkness of nihilism that surrounds us. Let us...

Six months on after the most important conclave in 60 years

As we approach the six-month point (8 November) since Pope Leo XIV was elected, Christopher White reflects on the importance of the conclave that elected him and on the surprising speed with which Cardinal Robert Provost was chosen to lead the...

Catholic Church makes priest who 'sold his own soul to Satan' a saint

Rory Gannon Showbiz Journalist 12:42, 31 Oct 2025 Bartolo Longo (1841-1926), founder and benefactor of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompei.(Image: Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images) One of the latest saints in the Catholic Church...

Our first Saint. Peter ToRot cannonised in Mass at Vatican

ARCHBISHOP of Port Moresby Sir John Cardinal Ribat has described the sainthood of Peter ToRot as a national celebration that will draw the attention of the world to Papua New Guinea. “Blessed Peter ToRot, a lay catechist who died for his faith,...

The Vatican presents its second report on combating abuse, and this is what it says

(ZENIT News / Rome, 10.18.2025).- The Vatican’s second Annual Report on Policies and Procedures for the Protection of Minors and Vulnerable Adults, presented on October 16, marks a determined shift in the Catholic Church’s long and painful journey...

VATICAN - Pope Leo XIV: the Concilium Sinense, a ‘milestone’ in the history of the Church in China

Saturday, 11 October 2025 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We publish the Message of the Holy Father Leo XIV on the occasion of the opening of the Academic Year of the Pontifical Urbaniana University. To Cardinal Luis Antonio TAGLE Grand Chancellor...

The Sistine Chapel

October 31, 1512: the closing of a worksite, the final brushstroke drying and sealing the effort. It is the date that marks the revelation of the absolute. When, by order of Pope Julius II, the scaffolding of the Sistine Chapel finally gave way to...

Cardinal Cupich at Georgetown Panel: AI Is Pope Leo XIV’s ‘Industrial Revolution’

Forum was part of the university’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago described artificial intelligence (AI) as Pope Leo XIV’s “industrial revolution” at a Georgetown University forum Oct. 30....