This Thursday, Pope Francis named Francesca Di Giovanni the Undersecretary of Multilateral Affairs for the Secretariat of State, an important Vatican office. Di Giovanni will be the first woman to hold a management position in the Roman Catholic Church. Leadership positions in the Vatican are largely male-dominated, in part because many are reserved for priests, […]
Pope Begs Forgiveness of Sexual Abuse Survivors, But Survivors Want Action
“These meetings are public relations coups for the Vatican and distracting placebos for others. They provide temporary but false hope.”
Mass Grave in Ireland Contains Remains of Almost 800 Children from Catholic “Mother-And-Baby Home”
The “mother-and-baby home,” in operation from 1925 to 1961, was one of many Catholic Church-run institutions across Ireland created to house unwed pregnant women and hide the “stain” they would create on the morality of the country.
