The Vatican’s chief comms officer on Friday defended his department’s use of an accused serial rapist’s art. “We’re not talking about abuse of minors,” said Dr. Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication of […]
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò was summoned to appear at the Vatican on Thursday, to face charges of schism. The former papal diplomat and consummate Vatican Insider-turned-conspiracy-theorist almost triumphantly announced the development over social media. Official […]
Remember when the fellow in charge of organizing Pope Francis’s Big Meeting on Meetings Synod on Synodality, Cardinal Mario Grech, announced a special study group—one of ten dedicated to various questions and issues in ecclesiastical […]
It turns out that “shitposting” is a technical term. There’s a great literature, approaching a whole subfield of academic communications studies, treating the practice of tossing cheap and easy provocations into digital space in order […]
Did Pope Francis really just talk about troppa frociaggine again? To hear Italy’s ANSA wire service tell it, he did. This time, according to ANSA, Pope Francis said, “In the Vatican, there is an air […]
In a word: Nothing. In another: Everything. Bad for business, bad for baseball There are gambling scandals, for example, one of which has seen a player get the boot and one of which hasn’t. 24-year-old […]
Troppa frociaggine. It’s an Italian expression meaning “too much faggotry”—that’s not a rough translation, and the Italian word hits about as hard as the English—and Pope Francis reportedly used it in a closed-door gathering with […]
The Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina, has renounced his see less than a year after taking it. A terse statement in the daily bulletin from the press office of the Holy See announced on Monday […]
Much of the talk last week was about the new Vatican norms for the discernment of supernatural phenomena—apparitions especially, but not exclusively—presented at a press conference in Rome on Friday. The run-up to the presser […]
The robot uprising is gon’ be a hoot. That’s the lesson from this week, one that saw the world’s first-ever sacerdotal AI chatbot ordained and assigned to general ministry, then swiftly laicized and reinvented as […]
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