Showing posts with the label vatican
Pope: Catholic guide needs updating on death penalty issue
World Day Against Death Penalty: 5 Countries That Ditched Capital Punishment
Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment
Vatican police have raided a cardinal's apartment where a drug-fuelled homosexual orgy was taking place. Police entered an apartment at the former palace of the Congregation for the Doctrine of t…
Australian Cardinal and Aide to Pope Is Charged With Sexual Assault
Australia’s senior Roman Catholic prelate, and one of Pope Francis’ top advisers, has been charged with sexual assault, the police in the Australian state of Victoria said on Thursday. The prelate, …
Unholy Alliance: General William “Wild Bill” Donovan and Pope Pius XII
One day in July 1944, as the Second World War raged throughout Europe, General William “Wild Bill” Donovan was ushered into an ornate chamber in Vatican City for an audience with Pope Pius XII. Donov…
May 1st: The Day Slavery System Transferred from Monarchies to the Corporations
Contrary to what most of us consider to be private property, we don’t really own anything, from the real estate property and the car we’ve been driving from and to the workplace. We are mere tenants …
Mass grave with baby remains found in Ireland
A mass grave containing “significant quantities" of infants' remains has been discovered at a former Catholic mother and baby home in western Ireland. The discovery, announced by investigato…
The Forgotten Maggies - Official Documentary Magdalene Laundries (2009)
Directed and Produced by Steven O’Riordan with Ger Boland co-producing, The forgotten Maggies focuses on the human rights aspect surrounding the Magdalene Laundries, including testimonies from women …
Sex In A Cold Climate - The Magdalene Laundries (1998)
Steve Humphries' Sex in a Cold Climate , a documentary denouncing the Magdalene Asylums, which were operated by Catholic nuns in Ireland for over 100 years, caused an uproar when it was televised…
Slave Labour: Magdalene Laundries disgraced Irish Catholic women
For almost 150 years thousands of women in Ireland were sent to live in Catholic institutions, punished for crimes like having a child out of wedlock or petty theft, and forced to work in laundries r…
The Ratlines
Adolf Eichmann, “the architect of the Holocaust,” escaped from Europe after World War II and remained hidden for 15 years before being captured. Germany holds a cache of sealed files detailing this h…
Hitler 'wanted to steal' Turin Shroud
The Turin Shroud, said to be the burial cloth of Christ, was secretly hidden in a Benedictine abbey during the Second World War because the Vatican feared that Adolf Hitler wanted to steal it. In an…
Pope aide claims under-fire Vatican is victim of ‘conspiracy’
The Vatican has rejected fresh allegations linking Pope Benedict XVI to a cover-up of paedophile priests, even as international media reports accused the Church of moral bankruptcy and questioned the…
Pope orders Vatican probe into Irish church, blasts bishops, takes no Vatican blame for abuse
Pope Benedict XVI's unprecedented letter to Ireland apologizing for chronic child abuse within the Catholic Church has failed to calm the anger of many victims, who accused the Vatican of ducking…
International Probe Targets Secretive Catholic Group
But while Opus Dei, the other controversial conservative Catholic order, was made famous in Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," the Legion of Christ is virtually unknown to most Americans – at…
Report damns Irish Catholic Church for covering up ‘evil’ sex abuse
The Catholic Church in Ireland covered up widespread allegations of "evil" child sex abuse by priests for decades, according to a damning report released on Thursday. Four archbishops rou…
Britain knew about extermination of Jews, Vatican claims
The Vatican's official newspaper has accused Britain and the United States of having detailed knowledge of Hitler's plans to exterminate the Jews but of failing to do anything to halt the Fin…
Opus Dei lets film director in on some of its secrets
New film to explore history of controversial Catholic sect and its leader The British film-maker Roland Joffe, who made his mark with his religious drama The Mission about crusading Jesuits in the…
Vatican plots battle with Dan Brown over Da Vinci Code sequel
It was described as a “phantasmagorical cocktail of inventions”, a “masonic plot” and a “ potpourri of lies”. Now a nervous Vatican is braced for the sequel to The Da Vinci Code and the return of i…