CNSNews: According to Vatican observer Edwin Pentin, it [was] “not clear” whether “the role of homosexuality in the abuse crisis” [would] be addressed at the Vatican summit on clergy sexual abuse. . . . One thing is for sure: every…

Fortune: Pope Francis met with Microsoft President Brad Smith on Wednesday at the Vatican to discuss the ethical use of artificial intelligence [AI] and how to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations, Reuters reports. The Vatican’s Academy for Life, a research…

Catholic Herald: 2018 has been annus horribilis for the Catholic Church. There’s no point mincing our words. The mere rehearsal of the major disasters would run the length of a volume. An exhaustive list of the missteps and failures starting or ending…

Angelus Guest Editorial by Callista Gingrich: One year ago, on Dec. 22, 2017, I had the honor of presenting my credentials to Pope Francis to serve as the 11th U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. It has been a privilege…

Reuters: The first visit by a pope to the Arabian Peninsula will take place in February when Francis travels to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the Vatican said on Thursday. The Feb. 3-5 trip, Francis’ latest to a…

KTF News – Leaders of Both North and South Korea Wonder AfterWatch this video on YouTube Photo by Ashwin Vaswani on Unsplash Transcript of this video Source References Kim Jong-un invites Pope Francis to North Korea

UK Independent: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has invited Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang, saying the religious figure would be “ardently welcomed.” The gesture from the North is a bid to highlight peace efforts being made on the Korean Peninsula, according to South Korea’s…

KTF News – Australian Archbishop Gets One Year SentenceWatch this video on YouTube Image: Honeykanakkary [Public domain], wikimedia.org Transcript of this video Source References Australian archbishop sentenced to year’s detention for not reporting sexual abuse

KTF News – Pope meets Governor General of AustraliaWatch this video on YouTube Image: Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General (Commonwealth of Australia) [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)] Transcript of this video Source References Pope meets Governor-General of Australia

KTF News – The Vatican’s Parolin attends Bilderberg Meeting for the First TimeWatch this video on YouTube Image: “Meeting with cardinal Pietro Parolin | 7” (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by paval hadzinski Transcript of this video Source References Vatican Secretary of…

“The Archbishop of Adelaide was sentenced… to a 12-month [detention] after being convicted in May of failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse disclosed to him in the 1970s. The archbishop is likely to serve his sentence under house…