by WorldTribune Staff, May 4, 2025 Real World News President Donald Trump and the Catholic Church. Are there two things the major corporate media loathe more? Asked on Tuesday about whom he’d like to see become the next Catholic pontiff, Trump told reporters: “I’d like to be pope. That would be my No. 1 choice.” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 21, 2025 Real World News Pope Francis has died. He was 88. Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was the first pope from the Americas, the first from the Jesuit order, and the first to take the name Francis. Francis X. Rocca wrote for the Wall Street Journal: […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 7, 2024 Contract With Our Readers Conservative firebrand Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has been excommunicated by the Vatican. One of the leading critics of liberal Pope Francis, Vigano was accused of a schism. According to Roman Catholic canon law, a schismatic is a baptized person who, though continuing to identify as […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2021 Pope Francis on Saturday met with Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric to plead for peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians of Iraq. During a four-day visit to Iraq, Francis traveled to the Shia holy city of Najaf to meet with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. It was the first ever such […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 22, 2020 Pope Francis has endorsed civil unions for same-sex couples. “Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it,” the pope says in a new […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The story comes right out of a Dan Brown mystery thriller in which Vatican secrets are targeted by State sponsored computer hackers. Yet according to cyber security sources, the intrusion into sensitive Vatican diplomatic traffic is not fiction, but a cold hard fact of modern espionage. The Recorded […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 12, 2019 The Catholic Church’s abuse crisis was fueled by the sexual revolution of the 1960s, former Pope Benedict XVI has written. Benedict, who resigned the papacy in 2013, says in a newly-drafted 6,000-word document – titled “The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse” – that many in the ’60s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 13, 2019 Some 80 percent of priests working at the Vatican are homosexual and the more homophobic a cleric was, the more likely he was to be gay, according to the new book “In the Closet of the Vatican”. The book by French journalist and author Frederic Martel unveils “a clerical […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, January 7, 2019 German Cardinal Walter Brandmuller insists that gay men are more responsible for the abuse scandal than the Catholic Church. In a Jan. 4 interview with the DPA news agency, Brandmuller said public debate on the sexual abuse scandal “forgets […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 25, 2018 Three decades after his film “The Last Temptation of Christ” was labeled as “morally offensive” by the Catholic Church, and shortly before a wave of bomb deliveries to anti-Trump political celebrities, Hollywood director Martin Scorsese met with Pope Francis. Scorsese, who also directed “Taxi Driver” about a would-be assassin […]
