Posted on 15 May 2013 Cardinal Peter Turkson, the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, told Vatican Radio that the council’s controversial 2011 document, “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority,” did not constitute a call for a world government. “We never used that word,” Cardinal Turkson said in...

Posted on 10 May 2013 There was another strange phone call today. Somebody was apparently just recently hurt by a misinformation which has been circulating on the web for two or three years. This calumny claims that the Vatican astronomers named some instrument or telescope “Lucifer”. It is fairly clearly a typical case of degradation of information. The truth of the matter is that the...

Posted on 2 May 2013 Excerpt: “Pope Francis to canonise 800 Italians slain during historic siege,” by Carol Glatz for the Catholic Herald, April 30, 2013. Pope Francis is preparing to canonise an estimated 800 Italian laymen killed by Ottoman soldiers in the 15th century. The canonisation service will be on May 12 in St Peter’s Square and it will be the first carried out by the Pontiff...

Posted on 25 Mar 2013 Reprinted with permission In a profoundly symbolic gesture (hat tip Tundra Tabloids [1]), which epitomizes the Catholic Church’s abject dhimmitude [2], high-profile Muslim convert to Christianity Magdi Christiano Allam [3], has renounced [4] his Catholicism because of what he terms the Church’s weakness toward, and legitimation of, Islam. Allam, who will remain a...

Posted on 20 Mar 2013 Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. Having spent most of his life in Buenos Aires, Pope Francis has given proof that he can rise above his environment. As his compatriot Bishop Alberto Bochatey remarked, “he is a man of few words.” I lived half of my life in Buenos Aires. Few things are more difficult there than finding leaders with his...