According to a top source in the TNBC, Pope Francis had been receiving complaints from Tamil Nadu and Kerala about corruption and other aberrations in the lives of the clergy. In a letter dated October 8, the Apostolic Nunciature in India — the Vatican’s envoy to New Delhi — has directed the Tamil Nadu clergy to stay […]
Read MoreOne of the untold sad stories of recent times in India is the corruption within churches who distributed aid following the pogrom against Christians in Orissa in 2007 and 2008. Some took cash from donors and walked away with it; others diverted funds to unrelated projects, splashed out on new SUVs or refurbished their own […]
Read MoreHave you ever heard of a Catholic bishop abducted, blindfolded, hands tied, stripped, locked up and tortured mercilessly by three of his own priests in “Dady’s Home,” an institution run by one of them? No it is not a fairy tale! It really happened to Bishop Prasad Gallela of Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh, India. The culprits […]
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Savio Rodrigues is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Goa Chronicle. In this must watch video he separates the Christian faith from the institution and corporation that the Catholic Church is and highlights the extraordinary corruption that permeates it today. The Christian faith is under pressure because of the abundance of allegations of sexual abuse amongst simple priests […]
Read MoreA new commission is looking to establish financial accountability for Christian leaders Agroup of concerned church leaders and activists in southern India has launched a campaign to combat “the deep-rooted cancer of corruption” within churches. The campaign has been established following the murder of a bishop, the imprisonment of another, and a rise in concern […]
Read MoreRemorse is not enough. Only reform can fix a broken institution. By Megan Gibson In 2019, over the course of a chilly February weekend, the Catholic Church seemed as though it was on the verge of a reckoning. For four days, Pope Francis convened a gathering of bishops in Vatican City for the Church’s first ever […]
Read MoreThe case of Gianluigi Torzi is likely to shed a light on one of the Catholic church’s most controversial financial deals in decades As the rest of Italy relaxed on December 26 2018, Gianluigi Torzi put on a dark suit and tie for an important meeting. The client the Italian businessman was visiting later that […]
Read MoreLUJAN DE CUYO, Argentina -When investigators swept in and raided the religious Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf, they uncovered one of the worst cases yet among the global abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic Church: a place of silent torment where prosecutors say pedophiles preyed on the most isolated and submissive children. The scope of […]
Read MoreItaly’s bill on civil unions is an important landmark in the history of successful and unsuccessful attempts by the Vatican to influence Italian politics, writes Stefano Bonino. The last country in the European Union to recognise civil unions for same sex-couples, Italy recently emerged from a thirty-year long battle against an inherently conservative culture borne […]
Read MoreCecilia Marogna worked for Cardinal Becciu, who was forced by the pope to resign last month A woman who has said she was given hundreds of thousands of euros by a powerful Vatican cardinal to conduct secret intelligence missions for the Holy See in Africa has been arrested by Italy’s financial police. Cecilia Marogna, 39, […]
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