Cardinal George Pell had a broken nose, was not wearing shoes and his clothes had been “just thrown in” the coffin when his body was returned to Australia from Italy last year, according to new claims which suggest the Vatican “had not forgiven Pell for hunting down corruption”. Australia’s mostContinue Reading
“I wish the Australians were with us”. Eighty years ago this week, as the Allies launched the greatest seaborne invasion in history, a key British general voiced what many were thinking. Knowing that the D-Day landings – the first step in liberating Western Europe from the Nazis – would beContinue Reading
A British boy who died of leukaemia aged 15 is to become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint. Pope Francis decreed that a second posthumous miracle has been attributed to Carlo Acutis, qualifying the teenager for canonisation, the official admission of a dead person into sainthood. Acutis was born inContinue Reading
The Vatican is set to hold a press conference announcing updated church doctrines on “apparitions and other and other supernatural phenomena” on Friday. Notice of the press conference, which will be held in the Holy See Press Office at midday (8pm AEST), sparked a wave of tabloid headlines earlier thisContinue Reading
Nostradamus, a 16th-century French astrologer known as “the prophet of doom,” has a few foreboding predictions for 2024. According to his 1555 text Les Propheties (The Prophecies), this year brings continued global strife, including war on the seas, royal turmoil and humanitarian disaster. His vision of the future is laidContinue Reading
A Catholic priest with decades of service to church communities is facing allegations he abused a boy in historical sex crimes going back decades. Queensland Police allege Father David Lancini, a priest from Townsville in the state’s north, abused a boy under the age of 14 between 1969 and 1971.Continue Reading
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will have nearly an entire day of bilateral meetings with world leaders attending the COP28 climate conference in Dubai next month, according to a programme released by the Vatican on Thursday. It will be the first time in his papacy that the pope, 86, who isContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis created 21 new cardinals at a ritual-filled ceremony on Saturday, including key figures at the Vatican and in the field who will help enact his reforms and cement his legacy. On a crisp sunny morning filled with cheers from St Peter’s Square, Francis further expanded hisContinue Reading
Prince Harry’s pitch for his own podcast involved interviewing controversial guests like Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump about their childhoods, it’s been alleged. It was reported last week that Harry and wife Meghan Markle are cutting ties with Spotify just three years after agreeing to a deal believed to beContinue Reading
A purportedly AI-generated photo of a fake explosion at the Pentagon spread rapidly on social media on Monday – prompting mass confusion among users and a brief selloff in the US stock market. The fake photo, which showed smoke billowing outside the Pentagon, was shared by Russian state media outletContinue Reading