Pope Francis is leading the Catholic Church in tackling a controversial issue: whether “spiritual abuse” should be recognized as a formal crime under Church law. This move aims to stop priests from using supposed mystical or supernatural experiences to control or harm others. Last week, Cardinal Victor Fernandez, head of
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a vocal critic of Pope Francis, has been excommunicated by the Vatican for his defiance and rejection of papal authority. The Vatican’s decision comes after Viganò, once a prominent figure in the Catholic Church and former envoy to the U.S., was found guilty of schism —essentially
During an airborne press conference en route home from Hungary, it was revealed that Pope Francis was involved in a secret peace mission in Ukraine. Pope Francis on Sunday revealed that a secret peace “mission” in Russia’s war in Ukraine was under way, though he gave no details, and said
