The Vatican’s first auditor general, Libero Milone, who was forced to resign in June 2017, claims he was framed and says Pope Francis was deceived by Cardinal Angelo Becciu.
Criminal Justice
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A Catholic halfway house in Florida builds community among former inmates
Two-thirds of former prisoners in the United States are arrested again within three years of being released. A Catholic halfway house in Florida is trying to change that.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
‘Nobody wants to stay in this hell’: The moral call of Haiti
Jean Denis Saint-Félix, S.J.: “Nobody wants to stay in this hell. People are seeking ways to enter, no matter how, the United States,” even “knowing the danger and risks they go through.”
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Mexico’s President López Obrador attacks Jesuit human rights advocates
The president devoted more than 20 minutes of his press conference to an attack on Centro Prodh and its activism for human rights in Mexico. He charged, without offering any evidence, that Centro Prodh’s work is influenced by political actors from opposition parties.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis’ absolute power—and the problems it can cause—are on display in 2 Vatican trials
Two Vatican trials are coming to a head this week and both underscore Pope Francis’ power as an absolute monarch and the legal, financial and reputational problems that can arise when he wields it.
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Man who killed 6-year-old Palestinian boy in Illinois is a Catholic parishioner
Joseph Czuba of Plainfield, Illinois, and his wife are members of St. Mary Immaculate Parish.
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Jesuits and local church deplore violence as cartel turf war cut off towns in southern Mexico
“The drug cartels have taken over our territory, and we are under a state of siege, suffering widespread psychosis from narco blockades,” the local Roman Catholic Diocese said in a statement.
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Defrocked cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial on teen sexual abuse charges
A judge ruled Wednesday that a 93-year-old former Roman Catholic cardinal is not competent to stand trial after both prosecutors and defense attorneys determined he suffers from dementia.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Don’t believe the headlines: a Nebraska teen didn’t go to jail for having an abortion
In the year following Dobbs, accurate reporting on any story even remotely tangential to abortion is not to be expected.
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Catholic political scholars weigh in on Trump indictment in Georgia and 2024: ‘It’s not a happy prospect’
Notre Dame professor Robert Schmuhl said the Georgia indictment “reads like a who’s who of Trump loyalists—and lawyers—at the center of the alleged attempt to change the outcome of Georgia’s presidential vote count in 2020.”