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Why America needs to confront the Vatican

Posted by Authors, Highlights, Stephen D. Mumford 19 Mar 2012

This is the second of a series of chapters from N4CM Chairman Dr Stephen D. Mumford’s book, “American Democracy and the Vatican”, given this November’s US presidential election and the Catholic Church’s immense stake in the outcome. In the following chapter Dr Mumford documents why an American confrontation with the Vatican is required for the common good, as relevant and revealing today as [...]

Pope Says Condoms to Stop AIDS May Be Acceptable

Posted by News 21 Nov 2010

Source: New York Times, 21 November 2010. Pope Benedict XVI has said that condom use can be justified in some cases to help stop the spread of AIDS, the first Vatican exception to a long-held policy condemning condom use. The pope made the statement in a series of interviews with a German journalist, part of [...]

Why has Pope Benedict chosen a European strategy?

Posted by News 18 Nov 2010

Source: Reuters, 17 November 2010. Pope Benedict will boost the European majority among the men due to elect his successor when he creates 24 new cardinals at the Vatican on Saturday. The nominations are part of a wider strategy by the German-born pope to strengthen Roman Catholicism in Europe. The following is a guest contribution and the [...]

Police block sex abuse survivors near Vatican

Posted by Abuse in the Church, News 1 Nov 2010

Source: Associated Press. Italian paramilitary police blocked a boulevard leading to the Vatican to prevent a march Sunday by some 100 survivors of clergy sex abuse from reaching St. Peter’s Square, but later allowed two protesters to leave letters from the abused at the Holy See’s doorstep. The two also left a dozen stones near the obelisk in St. Peter’s square to mark a symbolic path [...].

Confidential 2001 Letter “De delictis gravioribus” (on most grave crimes)

Posted by Abuse in the Church 30 Oct 2010

In a confidential 2001 letter to the Catholic bishops of the world, presented below, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, ordered that the church’s investigations into child sex abuse claims be carried out in secret and the evidence kept confidential for up to 10 years after the victims reached adulthood. Lawyers acting for abuse [...]

Nazi Victims Ask EU to Probe Vatican on Looted Assets

Posted by Abuse in the Church, News 28 Oct 2010

Source: Bloomberg, 26 October 2010. Holocaust survivors from the former Yugoslavia accused the Vatican of helping Nazi allies launder their stolen valuables and have asked the European Commission to investigate their claims. “We are requesting the commission open an inquiry into allegations of money laundering of Holocaust victim assets by financial organs associated with or [...]

The Secret Files of the Inquisition

Posted by Features 24 Oct 2010

Secret Files of the Inquisition tells a story of epic proportions and powerful themes of Holy Wars and Crusades, of torture and terror, of the struggle for human rights and dignity. Based on previously unreleased secret documents from European Archives including the Vatican, Secret Files of the Inquisition unveils the incredible true story of the [...]

AIDS Is a Kind of ‘Justice’ for Promiscuous Sex, Belgian Catholic Leader Claims

Posted by News 18 Oct 2010

Source: Politics Daily, 16 October 2010. The Catholic Church in Belgium has been battered by scandals and missteps over the past year, and now its new leader, the conservative Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Brussels, has sparked a fresh controversy with comments declaring that people afflicted with AIDS are receiving “a sort of immanent justice” for [...]

Our crowded planet

Posted by Climate change, Opinion, Population Stress 18 Oct 2010

Source: McClatchy, 17 October 2010. Why is this planet so darn crowded? When I was in grade school in the 1950s, the earth held 1.5 billion people. Today that number has quadrupled to six billion. And another three billion are on the way by 2050 – nearly all of them in the world’s poorest countries. [...]

Preserving Power and Privilege: The Vatican’s Agenda in the European Union

Posted by Papers 19 Sep 2010

This investigative report commissioned by Catholics for Choice exposes the truth about the Roman Catholic church’s activities in the European Union. Issues such as the European Constitution, abortion, the family and the future of religious freedom in the European Union are discussed as elements of the Holy See’s European plans. Preserving Power and Privilege [...]

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