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Managing Mammon

By Paula AdamickPosted on May 6, 2015Posted in FeaturedTagged Pope Benedict, popes, bank, Vatican bank, God's bankers, Gerald Posner, Paula Adamick, finances, Benedict XVI, scandal, Pope Francis, reform, pope, JPII, john paul ii, Francis, Vatican

You can’t run the Church on Hail Marys. – Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, former head of the Vatican Bank A new book about the history of the Vatican’s finances confirms yet again that the handling of money—in both large and small amounts—is always a sticky business. This, of course, is a hard fact of life, one that all[…]

Abuse. Blasphemy. Communion in the hand?

By Catherine BauerPosted on May 20, 2013Posted in FeaturedTagged pope, caffarra, john paul ii, thorne, standing, bologna, kneeling, peru, communion on the tongue, real presence, True Presence, memoriale domini, Benedict XVI, french bishops, Pope Francis, conference of bishops, communion in the hand, indult, vatican ii, marini, Vatican1 Comment

“I’m heartbroken to announce that last week, we discovered a crushed consecrated Host beneath one of the kneelers,” the pastor of a small yet devout Californian parish says. He pauses for a moment before he goes on, his voice choked by just indignation and sadness: “This is God, people. God.” Then he drops the bomb.[…]