Vatican reveals it owns more than 5,000 properties (The Guardian) The Vatican has released information on its real estate holdings for the first time, revealing it owns more than 5,000 properties, as part of its most detailed financial disclosures ever. The information released on Saturday was contained in two documents – a consolidated financial statement for 2020 for the Holy See and the first ever public budget for the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (Apsa)…
Cordileone to Pelosi: No one can claim to be a “devout Catholic” and support abortion (Fox) The Catholic Archbishop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hometown of San Francisco, California slammed her recent support of eliminating the Hyde Amendment and suggested she is not the “devout Catholic” she has claimed to be. “To use the smokescreen of abortion as an issue of health and fairness to poor women is the epitome of hypocrisy: what about the health of the baby being killed?” San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone told Catholic News Agency on Thursday. “What about giving poor women real choice, so they are supported in choosing life?”…
Catholics call on governor, mayor to denounce anti-Catholic hate crimes (Queens Patch) Catholic organizations are calling on New York’s leaders to denounce anti-Catholic hate crimes following the destruction of two decades-old religious statues outside of a Forest Hills church. Last weekend, a woman destroyed two statues outside Forest Hills’ Our Lady of Mercy church in an incident that the NYPD is investigating as a hate crime, police said. “The Governor and the Mayor have been very quick to publicly and rightly condemn acts of faith targeting other faiths. However, we can not help but notice the disturbing, deafening silence from both the Mayor and the Governor concerning these heinous acts of hate targeting Catholics,” the New York branch of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) said in a statement first reported by Irish Central…
Canadian church hit with graffiti (Global News) A Catholic church in New Westminster has been the latest target of vandals in the wake of heightened tensions after the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools. Staff and parishioners arrived at St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Royal Avenue Sunday to find the front walls splattered with paint…
Pope on Grandparents Day: Elderly are not “leftovers” (CNA) On the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, Pope Francis said he is worried about how an individualistic society treats its older members, and he urged young people to give them love and attention. “I worry when I see a society full of people in constant motion, too caught up in their own affairs to have time for a glance, a greeting or a hug,” the pope said in a homily read by Archbishop Rino Fisichella July 25…
