Holocaust Museum at Yad Vashem will "reconsider" its notice of Pius XII

The 'incident' between the Holy See and Israel over the way in which Pius XII's policy toward the Nazi regime and the Jews is characterised at the Holocaust Museum at Yad Vashem has resolved itself to everyone's diplomatic satisfaction i.e. the Apostolic Nuncio Mons Antonio...

An unexpected meeting

Contrary to my supposition, this morning's meeting of the Holy Father with the heads of the curial dicasteries was an unscheduled one, according to the invaluable Rorate Caeli.  Certain 'ministry' or 'department' heads have 'standing' audiences with the Supreme Pontiff...

Vatican warns Paraguay candidate

"The Vatican has made public its displeasure at the decision of a retired bishop to run in Paraguay's 2008 presidential elections. Papal officials released the text of a letter handed last week to Fernando Lugo warning him of possible sanctions. Mr Lugo said on Monday he...

Obsequies for Pierre Gemayel in Beirut

The funeral rites for Pierre Amin Gemayel were performed this morning at the Cathedral of St George in Beirut, with his Beatitude Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites and Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, celebrating the requiem Mass.  The...

The Holy See's communications people need 'reform'

Dr Magister's column today is troubling: the communications people who work for the Holy See need some 'reforming' and it is not clear who is going to do that work of 'reform'.  There are two parts to Dr Magister's critique: the first has to do with the evident inability...

Will he or won't he?

Speculation that someone from the Turkish government will, after all, condescend to meet with the Roman Pontiff during his visit to Turkey later in the month: the foreign minister, Mr Abdullah Gul, perhaps.  The Patriarch of Constantinople has, in an interview given...

Confirmation of proper translation of pro multis

Catholic World News has confirmed that the Holy See will insist that all new English translations of the words "pro multis" of the form of consecration in the Holy Mass will be 'for many', rather than the current 'for all'.  Father John T. Zuhlsdorf, days ago, published...

Ecumenism's goal; "the visible unity of the Church"

The CNA report on the Roman Pontiff's address yesterday to the plenary meeting of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity notes that the Holy Father admonished the participants in the meeting that "the aim of the ecumenical movement remains unchanged: the visible...

'I see that, in our time, morality has been divided into two parts'

The content of Dr Sandro Magister's column yesterday was occasioned by the allocutions of his Holiness to the Swiss and German bishops: the subject, 'morality' itself, however, is is one that is of central concern to all of us who attempt to live lives faithful to the Gospel....

Minister Bardakoglu could, prudently, give it a rest

As CNA reports, Ali Bardakoglu, the Turkish minister for religious affairs has commented yet again on the Roman Pontiff, with whom he will meet later in the month:"Peace is destroyed in a second but it takes a lot of time, a long process, to build it," Ali Bardakoglu told the...