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Two banks approved tens of millions of euros in loans for a Catholic charity while it was in the midst of a multi-million euro fraud. The funds, totaling as much as the charity’s entire cash reserves, could account for as much as half the money believed to have been embezzled from its accounts earlier this … Read moreCaritas Luxembourg received millions in bank loans in midst of fraud
Happy Friday friends, I have reached that point in summer where my internal emotional tension has reached its breaking point. The news cycle slows over August, inevitably. And of human necessity people cycle in and out of the office on vacation. If you have, as I do, a disordered Pelagian disposition towards work as self-justification, … Read moreSummer school, Rorschach’s prayer, and one man’s meat
The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph has released a statement on an investigation into the allegedly incorrupt remains of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster of Gower Abbey, Missouri. The report concluded that her body lacks “any detected features of decomposition” following her death in 2019. The body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster at Gower Abby. Pillar image. In … Read moreSr. Wilhelmina’s body ‘lacks any features of decomposition,’ experts conclude
Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago generated controversy this week when he offered the invocation at the Democratic National Convention. Cardinal Cupich gives the invocation at the 2024 DNC. Credit: PBS News / Screenshot. Subscribe now The cardinal’s prayer to open the convention was criticized in large part because of the Democratic Party’s policy commitment to … Read moreA brief history of Catholic convention prayers
A New York province of Capuchin Franciscans says it will fully cooperate with federal prosecutors who arrested a friar last week on charges of wire and mail fraud, with prosecutors alleging he stole hundreds of thousands in an elaborate scheme involving several invented personalities, claims of royalty, and phony Lebanese medical clinics. Fr. Pawel Bielecki, … Read more‘Catch him if you can’ – Capuchin arrested after complex false identity scam
Pillar subscribers can listen to JD read this Pillar Post here: The Pillar TL;DR Hey everybody, Today is the Feast of St. Bernard, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. You’re reading it a bit late, and I apologize — I’m still getting into the swing of things after the health stuff my family’s been … Read more‘We as individuals,’ the news, and Barry the great
The new apostolic nuncio to Venezuela, Archbishop Alberto Ortega Martín, presented August 14 his letters of credence as the Holy See’s diplomatic envoy to Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Archbishop Alberto Ortega meets Nicholas Maduro, Aug. 14, 2024. Such an act is usually a formality, without much political significance, but in the complicated political landscape of … Read moreBad timing: Why Venezuela’s new nuncio had to meet Maduro
Two Steubenville priests made headlines this month, when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that they have legal custody of a two-year-old boy, who is living at their downtown parish rectory. St. Peter’s Parish, in Steubenville, Ohio. Credit: Ron Cogswell/Flickr. CC BY SA 2.0 A judge will consider the boy’s situation at a custody hearing in October, … Read moreTwo priests and a baby? What’s happening at an Ohio parish?
The Vatican’s agreement with China on the appointment of bishops is set to be renewed in the coming months. While that project remains in the hands of the Secretariat of State, Pope Francis has been in recent months making more personal appeals to Beijing, both himself and through his “special envoy for peace,” Cardinal Matteo … Read moreIs the Vatican’s China diplomacy strategy, or chaos?
There is no Starting Seven today due to a vacation. The next Starting Seven will be on Monday, Sept. 2. Read more Read More