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Isn’t the Church becoming like the Taliban, excommunicating divorced second wives and homosexuals?
QUESTION: Isn’t the Church becoming like the Taliban, excommunicating divorced second wives and homosexuals? After all, they too can love God with all their hearts, so why are they denied Communion? ANSWER: excommunication and the inability to receive communion are two different things. Communion with the Church does not occur only through Holy Communion, although […]
Can an “extraordinary minister” serve the Eucharist?
QUESTION: if only a priest can serve the Eucharist, why is his authority delegated to “extraordinary ministers”? ANSWER: In the last years of the pontificate of John Paul II, the Congregation’s Redemptoris Sacramentum for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments was published. This document is dedicated to the celebration of the Eucharist […]
Statement by the Press Hall of the Holy See on the events in Belarus
Czech Republic, demonstration in support of Belarus (AFP or licensors) The director of the Vatican Press Hall confirmed that the Holy See does not ignore the situation in Belarus. Olga Sakun – Vatican City “The Holy See continues to closely monitor the development of the situation in Belarus,” said the director of the Vatican Press […]
Can a priest violate the secret of confession?
Can a priest violate the secret of confession? QUESTION: under what conditions can the secret of confession be violated?
The Holy See called the accusations against Gondetsky unfounded
Pope Francis and the Apostolic Nuncio in Poland Salvatore Pennacchio Monsignor Stanislav Gondetsky was accused of negligence in investigating the sexual crimes of two elders. Olga Sakun – Vatican City The apostolic nunciature in Poland called the accusations against the president of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Stanislaw Gondecki, unfounded: the hierarch was credited with […]
MONEYVAL – Vatican: Mutual Evaluation Report
– The measures taken to combat money laundering were rated as “significant”. Olga Sakun – Vatican City MONEYVAL has published a Mutual Evaluation Report that assesses the effectiveness of the Holy See and Vatican’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures. The overall assessment of these measures is positive: on five counts, the Vatican jurisdiction was […]
Why is a church marriage irreversible, and a priest or monk can return to the world for the sake of human love?
QUESTION: Priests and nuns wear a wedding ring on their fingers, like people who have entered into a marriage union. Why isn’t their decision to return to the world to marry a human being considered second marriage? And can we say that a person who has returned to the world for the sake of human […]
“Astonishment, Worship and Synod”
– Column editor Reflections by the Vatican News Editor-in-Chief on the Pope’s words from a recent sermon. “If there is no amazement and worship, then there will be no path leading to the Lord. There will be no synod, nothing will be … “. This phrase, added impromptu during the sermon at the Mass of […]
What do the words from Romans: “God gave them over to uncleanness” mean?
QUESTION: what do the words from the Epistle to the Romans: “God gave them up to uncleanness” – referring to homosexuality? ANSWER: Let us carefully reread the passage from the Epistle to Romans (1, 24-28):
Amoris laetitia: what have we achieved?
– The Vatican is organizing a meeting to review the actualization of Pope Francis’s post-synodal message. Olga Sakun – Vatican City From June 9-12, the Department of Laity, Family and Life Affairs will host a webinar entitled “Amoris laetitia: Where Are We? Strategies for the Pastoral Application of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Admonition ”. The meeting […]
