# vatican - Friday 5 March, 2021
# Papal Visit
# Papal Visit
Foreign minister Fuad Hussein said Iraqis were eager to welcome Francis’s ‘message of peace and tolerance’.
# vatican - Sunday 10 January, 2021
# Capitol Violence
# Capitol Violence
Pope Francis urged the US authorities to protect democratic values.
# vatican - Saturday 28 November, 2020
# Vatican
# Vatican
Pope Francis has created 95 new cardinals since his election in 2013.
# vatican - Monday 12 October, 2020
# Vatican
# Vatican
George Pell was convicted but ultimately absolved by Australia’s High Court of sex abuse allegations.
# vatican - Friday 25 September, 2020
# Resignation
# Resignation
The 72-year-old was named as a cardinal in summer 2018.
# vatican - Wednesday 8 January, 2020
# Papal Peck
# Papal Peck
The image of Francis slapping his way free from the clutches of an admirer last week was an instant hit on social media.
# vatican - Tuesday 17 December, 2019
# Pontifical Secret
# Pontifical Secret
The reform is part of changes being introduced by the Church today.
# vatican - Saturday 30 November, 2019
# Nativity
# Nativity
The thumb-sized relic was unveiled to worshippers at the Notre Dame church in Jerusalem.
# vatican - Sunday 6 October, 2019
# Vatican
# Vatican
The move is part of discussions to address a shortage of priests in the Amazon region.
# vatican - Wednesday 21 August, 2019
# Australia
# Australia
He was once the Vatican ’s third highest-ranking official.
# vatican - Sunday 28 July, 2019
# Emanuela Orlandi
# Emanuela Orlandi
Emanuela Orlandi was the daughter of a Vatican City employee. She disappeared on 22 June 1983.
# vatican - Saturday 20 July, 2019
# Dna Tests
# Dna Tests
Emanuela Orlandi was last seen leaving a music class in Rome in 1983.
# vatican - Saturday 13 July, 2019
# Emanuela Orlandi
# Emanuela Orlandi
The tombs of two 19th-century princesses were opened in the hope of finding the remains of Emanuela Orlandi – but they were empty.
# vatican - Thursday 11 July, 2019
# Emanuela Orlandi
# Emanuela Orlandi
Not only was Emanuela Orlandi’s body not found, the tombs did not hold the skeletons of the two princesses supposed to be buried there.
# vatican - Wednesday 10 July, 2019
# Emanuela Orlandi
# Emanuela Orlandi
Emanuela Orlandi was last seen leaving a music class aged 15 in June 1983.
# vatican - Monday 10 June, 2019
# Vatican
# Vatican
The document was immediately denounced by LGBT Catholics as contributing to bigotry and violence.
# vatican - Monday 13 May, 2019
# Holey Show
# Holey Show
It is believed the supply had been shut off due to unpaid electricity bills amounting to around €300,000.
# vatican - Thursday 28 March, 2019
# Viral
# Viral
The video was shared online and had gained more than 11 million views on Twitter.
# vatican - Monday 31 December, 2018
# Vatican Shake-up
# Vatican Shake-up
The Vatican has yet to give an explanation for the resignation of Greg Burke and his deputy Paloma Garcia Ovejero.
# vatican - Friday 2 November, 2018
# Rome
# Rome
Another potential victim emerged today.
# vatican - Friday 12 October, 2018
# Donald Wuerl
# Donald Wuerl
He was blamed for not doing enough to deal with paedophile priests when he was a bishop in Pennsylvania.
# vatican - Monday 8 October, 2018
# Theodore McCarrick
# Theodore McCarrick
Pope Francis approved a study into how the US cardinal rose through the ranks of the Catholic Church despite allegations against him.
# vatican - Friday 21 September, 2018
# Catholic Chuch
# Catholic Chuch
An entire Chilean delegation of 34 bishops tendered their resignation to the pope in May. He has now accepted seven of them.
# vatican - Thursday 20 September, 2018
# Sincere
# Sincere
The U2 frontman had a half-hour meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican yesterday.
# vatican - Thursday 13 September, 2018
# Abuse Cover-Up
# Abuse Cover-Up
The meeting was called amid a crisis of confidence in church leadership following sex abuse and cover-up revelations.
# vatican - Tuesday 28 August, 2018
# Church Abuse
# Church Abuse
The papal visit saw many headlines about clerical abuse and about how survivor groups were unhappy with the Church’s response to it.
# vatican - Monday 27 August, 2018
# Vatican
# Vatican
The claims were made in a letter by former Vatican envoy Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.
# vatican - Saturday 25 August, 2018
# Flagging
# Flagging
Vendors selling Vatican flags reported a slow day, as Pope Francis visited Dublin.
# vatican - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
# Philip Wilson
# Philip Wilson
Philip Wilson resigned last month after becoming one of the highest-ranked officials convicted of covering up abuse.
# vatican - Thursday 31 May, 2018
# Overtime Stopped
# Overtime Stopped
There are fears that the cuts will create a more dangerous work environment for officers.
# vatican - Tuesday 1 May, 2018
# George Pell
# George Pell
Cardinal George Pell has denied the historic allegations.
# vatican - Wednesday 21 March, 2018
# Pope Benedict
# Pope Benedict
Monsignor Dario Vigano was accused of manipulating a private letter written by Benedict XVI about Pope Francis.
# vatican - Thursday 8 March, 2018
# Mary McAleese
# Mary McAleese
The former president said women aren’t ‘mysteries’ or ‘strawberries on the cake’, despite what popes have called them.
# Misogyny
# Misogyny
The former president also called the Catholic Church an “empire of misogyny”.
# vatican - Sunday 18 February, 2018
# Pope Francis
# Pope Francis
Pope Francis came under criticism in Chile for defending Bishop Juan Barros.
# vatican - Wednesday 7 February, 2018
# New York
# New York
Archbishop Charles Scicluna called Juan Carlos Cruz yesterday “on behalf of the pope” to arrange a face-to-face interview.
# vatican - Monday 5 February, 2018
# Sexual Abuse
# Sexual Abuse
The Pope was handed an eight-page letter in 2015 that graphically detailed how a priest sexually assaulted a man and clergy ignored it.
# vatican - Friday 2 February, 2018
# Catholic Church
# Catholic Church
The inclusion of McAleese on the Voices of Faith speaker panel was opposed by Cardinal Kevin Farrell.
# vatican - Monday 27 November, 2017
# Rohingya Crisis
# Rohingya Crisis
He is expected to address claims of ethnic cleansing in the region.
# vatican - Thursday 9 November, 2017
# Banned
# Banned
The move will see the Vatican give up an estimated €10 million a year in profits.
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