The head of the Catholic Church acknowledged that Rome had been aware of the recently reported sexual violence perpetrated by the famous French priest at least since his death in 2007.
The Argentine Jesuit, when asked to advise American Catholic voters, criticized both candidates for their stances on abortion and migration, and urged voters to choose the ‘lesser evil.’
Catholic church says it will open its records on the once-revered Emmaรผs founder, who died in 2007Franceโs Catholic church has said it will open its records on allegations of sexual abuse and harassment made against a priest whose campaigning for the p…
Francis’ third stop in Southeast Asia, the former Portuguese and then Indonesian colony, whose population is 97% Catholic, came to a standstill for three days to celebrate the arrival of the head of the Church.
Trump canโt win without overwhelming evangelical support. His recent comments on abortion have some of his allies on the religious right worried.
The chamberโs new conflict-of-interest rules donโt apply to its most powerful member.
Inquiry to follow preliminary investigation unearthing 2,400 allegations of historic abuseThe Irish government is to set up a statutory commission of inquiry into sexual abuse at schools run by Catholic religious orders after a preliminary investigatio…
The head of the Catholic Church landed on Tuesday in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a 12-day visit that will also take him to Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore.
Groups seeking the former presidentโs favor have highlighted pro-Russian Hungarian leaders and talking points.
The vice president inherited a campaign that was in danger of falling off a cliff with Latino voters.
To ensure peace and prosperity, the EU needs a so-called “common fiscal capacity”, Fabio Panetta, the president of the Bank of Italy and a former member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, told Italy’s highest-level annual Catholic summit i…
Gardaรญ believe boy had been radicalised online and bore grudge about Irish peacekeepers in Middle EastIrish police suspect a possible terror motive in a stabbing attack outside an army barracks in Galway that inflicted serious injuries on a military ch…
Emergency recall of Stormont denounces wave of racist attacks โ and rejects DUP bid to defend anti-immigrant protesters.
With Giorgia Meloni, Italy has probably the most openly anti-abortion prime minister in western Europe, but terminating pregnancies in the majority-Catholic country that hosts the Vatican has never been easy.
Vatican-watchers are debating who might succeed Francis at the head of a Catholic Church rife with internal tensions
The Paris Olympics are already experiencing their first faux pas, ranging from bad food to a mix up of countries.
Apology follows anger among Catholics and other groups at opening ceremony segment that resembled biblical sceneParis 2024 organisers have apologised to Catholics and other Christian groups angered by a kitsch tableau in the Olympic Games opening cerem…
A parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous fresco ‘The Last Supper’ featuring drag queens in the Olympic opening ceremony in Paris has sparked fury among some Catholic clergy and far-right politicians, while supporters praised its message of tolerance. Th…
Overt chauvinism is the unifying thread of the New Right.
Failure of abortion vote raises big questions of whether Tusk can deliver the key social reforms he promised in last year’s election.
โA lot of my conservative worldview was influenced by Tolkien.โ
Thereโs panic, uncertainty, and some protestations that Vance wonโt really pull the country back from Ukraine and the world.
Italy’s PM faces a choice: Reelect the Commission president and stay relevant in Brussels, or light up her Euroskeptic base at home.
Donald Trumpโs pick for vice president made a 180-degree turn from fierce critic to bulldog surrogate for the former president.
The new Polish government is unleashing prosecutors and special commissions to hold its predecessors to account.
The new U.K. prime minister has paid his first visit Northern Irelandโs cross-community government in Belfast.
The ultra-conservative archbishop was found guilty of splitting with the Catholic church.
The ultra-conservative archbishop was found guilty of splitting with the Catholic church.
Irish republican party completes hat trick of first-place elections finishes.
President cites daily strikes in appeal to allies; Russian attack on Donetsk villages kills four while five dead in Ukrainian strikes on Russian village. What we know on day 858See all our Ukraine war coverageRussian forces fired missiles at the town o…
Meloniโs careful stewardship of the Italian economy has been rewarded by Europeโs famously fickle financial markets. But chaos across the Alps could draw unwanted attention to Italyโs huge debt pile.ย
Trouble is brewing in the very regions that cradled the 16th-century Protestant Reformation.
There is much anger among Catholic feminists over comments made by Pope Francis where he ruled out the possibility of women serving as ordained deacons or as members of the clergy. Also as polls continue to suggest that support for abortion rights is …
We made our own group of the most outlandish MEPs coming to the new European Parliament.
Figurine sits in front garden of family that previously claimed to have seen tears of blood from another statueIn the front garden of the Gregori family home on the outskirts of Civitavecchia, a port city close to Rome, is a well-curated grotto contain…
Ursula von der Leyen needs her frenemyโs support to secure another term as European Commission president. Will he deliver?
Sheinbaum is also the country’s first Jewish leader.
Nicknamed โTricky Dickโ, the new head of the Netherlandsโ far-right-led government is not afraid of bending the rules.ย
From political witch-hunts and nobbling bank mergers to hacking Covid regulations, the ECBโs brushes with the law are varied and plentiful.
Prosecutors allege that โฌ66 million in a special fund may have been misused under the former justice minister.
Second posthumous miracle attributed to leukaemia victim Carlo Acutis, qualifying him for canonisationA London-born teenager who died of leukaemia aged 15 is to become the Catholic churchโs first millennial saint.Carlo Acutis was a computer prodigy who…
Attack on prime minister lifts lid on divided politics of โone of the most polarised countries in EuropeโOn Friday morning, Father Tomรกลก stood solemnly in the small Catholic church nestled near a park along the banks of the Danube River in Bratislava.H…
PM Andrej Plenkoviฤ confirms coalition agreement with Homeland Movement Thursday afternoon.
The separatist politician is running for president from his camp just across the Spanish border.
Israel or Palestine? What users see in their social media feeds related to the Middle East crisis and other global political events is determined by opaque AI-powered curation systems.
Younger voters’ interest in extremist groups tends to be short-lived and driven by frustration with the present, not nostalgia for the past.
IN THE PRESS โ Thursday, May 2: We look at reactions to Arizona’s Senate repealing a Civil War-era ban on abortion, in a victory for abortion rights activists in the country. The move comes as the issue is set to dominant the US presidential campaign….
In October 2023, for the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, women were allowed to participate in and vote at the Synod of Bishops, a religious gathering that had previously been reserved only for bishops. The landmark event came amid ca…
POLITICOโs guide to key European lawmakers to pay attention to in the run-up to EU election June 6-9.
Each day, thousands of people throw coins into the world famous Trevi fountain to make a wish. Collected twice a week, the coins are used to fund Caritas, a catholic charity. On average, 200 to 400 kilogrammes of coins worth 4,000 to 8,000 euros are g…
Critics say “providing maternity support” is doublespeak for harassing women and denying them their rights.
Polish lawmakers voted Friday to move forward with proposals to lift a near-total ban on abortion, a divisive issue in the traditionally Roman Catholic country, which has one of the most restrictive laws in Europe. Members of the lower house of parlia…
Polish lawmakers voted Friday to advance bills that would lift a near-total ban on abortion in place since 2020, reviving an extremely polarising debate in the traditionally Roman Catholic country. But by launching an effort to liberalise abortion law…
The Catholic faith is strong in Poland and the government is split on introducing abortion on demand.
Poland’s parliament on Thursday will open a long-awaited debate on liberalising abortion laws in the majority Catholic country, with splits in the ruling coalition suggesting an uncertain outcome.
As party reels, new leader Gavin Robinson faces a U.K. election that could cost him his seat.
From the post-war period until the mid-1980s, thousands of children wereย forciblyย taken from their youngย Belgianย mothersย and sold to adoptive families byย Catholic institutions. Today, manyย victimsย are desperately trying to trace their origins and dema…
EU and US officials have warned about potential attacks in recent months.
A committee recommended assisted dying for people with an incurable disease and just six months to live, or those with 12 months if they have a neurodegenerative condition.
Given Putin’s aggression, โwe’ve got to make some tough choices,” said Richard Dearlove, the one-time MI6 boss.
The offensive โwomen in the homeโ provision endures. But we can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat For years, Ireland has prided itself on the determination of its voters to extract themselves from a constitutional straitjacket of Catholic social t…
President Emmanuel Macron on Monday faced criticism from French medical workers and the Catholic Church over a draft bill his government plans to present to parliament in May that would allow assisted dying for certain terminally-ill patients.
The French parliament will examine the bill in May.
Francis suggested Kyiv shouldn’t be ‘ashamed to negotiate’ with Russia, in latest comments that seemed to parrot Kremlin talking points.
As Europe turns right, Steve Bannon looks to get back in the game after a landmark Italian court win.
A vote to axe sexism from Ireland’s constitution is in the balance amid pushback from left and right.
The constitutional revision, backed by an overwhelming majority of the population, put conservatives and the far right in a tough spot.
The Hungarian prime minister, who championed the clean, moral, conservative life for years, was hoisted by his own petard. The question is whether he can ride out the storm once more.
Dries and Eugenie van Agt, both 93, died as number of couples in Netherlands choosing joint end to life growsA Catholic former Dutch prime minister, Dries van Agt, has died by euthanasia, hand in hand with his wife Eugenie. They were both 93.Their deat…
Far-right leader is still miles away from becoming Dutch PM after coalition talks hit the rocks.
A decade-old video has recently resurfaced claiming to show the Pope revealing his secret agenda to control the world and chastising Christians for watching The Hobbit and Game of Thrones. The Cube takes a closer look.
Michelle O’Neill has family ties to IRA, Emma Little-Pengelly to Ulster Resistance โ and together they’re tasked with building a new peace.
Sinn Fรฉin’s Michelle OโNeill vows to be โa first minister for allโ in a divided society where stable government has been a casualty of Brexit.
UK Tories have been told that beards are a turnoff for voters.
Amรฉlie Oudรฉa-Castรฉra is being attacked by unions and political opponents after trying to defend her decision to have her children attend private schools.
I helped expose the grotesque hypocrisy of the Catholic church. But I owe so much to the nuns who formed meThe 1990s witnessed the collision of three tectonic plates that are still shaping the course of Irish history: the Celtic Tiger, the peace proces…
It’s not enough to point out war crimes; we must also prevent them, says Pope Francis.
The defense chief is facing criticism for keeping his bosses in the dark.
Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, is facing increasingly strong opposition inside the Vatican. The conservative clan of the Roman Curia โ the powerful governing body of the Holy See โ accuses him of a laxist vision of Catholic doctrine, p…
French rabbi Delphine Horvilleur says the antisemitism in the U.S. following Hamasโ attack on Israel is not so surprising โ and all too familiar.
Former top European official Martin Selmayr is looking for a new job.
The Vatican on Monday approved blessings for same-sex couples, a hugely contested issue in the Catholic Church, as long as they are not in contexts related to civil unions or weddings.
The move marks another shift in the church’s stance on LGBTQ+ issues.
Announcing the change, the Vatican emphasised that it continues to view marriage as between a man and a woman.
The former defense secretary criticized Benjamin Netanyahu.
Grzegorz Braun was kicked out of the parliamentary session for his stunt.
Hanukkah candle sparks controversy in France.
A photograph of Pope Francis wearing a multicoloured cross has caused quite a controversy online with many believing this signals the Catholic Church is going back on its historic stance anti-LGBTQ+ stance. The Cube took a closer look at these claims.
In Belgium, a recent documentary on sexual abuse in the Catholic Churchย has caused shock and soul-searching, reigniting a debate about the way religion is funded in the country.ย Unlike in neighbouring France, the Belgian state finances officially reco…
Twin referendums will modernize Ireland’s conservative Catholic constitution to remove sexist language on women as housewives, and to recognize unmarried couples as families.
Overall No. 1 โ Poland
The pope said both Israeli and Palestinian communities are suffering and called for peace.
Biden and Xi will probably skip it, but the summit will have Lula, the pope and King Charles. And yeah, Rishi Sunak.
Hungary backs media outlets that wage war on woke and bring a Euroskeptic take to the EU capital.
The EUโs chief diplomat is drawing criticism from capitals for his take on Israel-Hamas.
Rare move comes after years of criticism from Strickland, a strong supporter of former US president Donald TrumpPope Francis has dismissed a bishop in Texas, Joseph Strickland, one of his fiercest critics among US Roman Catholic conservatives, the Vati…
The Ministry of Culture is funding a major exhibition in Rome on Tolkien, the literary hero of Italy’s far right.
The Roman Catholic Church says priests can baptise trans people so long as it does not cause “scandal”.
The move comes following a month of closed-door debate between senior Catholic bishops as well as lay people.
The country’s first in-depth public inquiry into abuse linked to the Catholic Church presents its findings.
