Vatican withdraws controversial World Youth Day stamp
Lisbon event dogged by controversies already billed as “most expensive yet” The Portuguese edition of World Youth Day – the largest event in the calendar of the Catholic Church, taking
Portugal’s Catholic Church “opens up to homosexuals”
In a joint interview with Lusa news agency and Ecclesia (the religious news agency) president of Portugal’s Episcopal Conference Bishop José Ornelas has shown that the Portuguese Catholic Church is
Lisbon mayor meets Pope in Vatican
Lisbon mayor Carlos Moedas will be received by Pope Francis in the Vatican tomorrow. The trip is to mark the 100 days left before the start of World Youth Day
Church-backed institution accused of €3.3 million fraud
Porto mission allegedly used names of dead, and fictitious, to inflate State funding At a moment when the Church has been assailed by bad press, there is a new blot
Lisbon’s Cardinal Patriarch acts on four priests ‘outed’ by victims as pedophiles
With the tide of public opinion literally washing Portugal’s religious leaders in a direction that they initially said was anathema, Lisbon’s Cardinal Patriarch D. Manuel Clemente has ‘preventively withdrawn’ four
Sexual abuse victims ‘indignant’ at Church response set up first group
A feeling of “total and absolute indignation” at the reaction of the Portuguese Catholic Church to the sexual abuse of children by priests has prompted the creation of the first
Child sex abuse in Church: Bishops rethink
Following the generalised disbelief over the attitude by bishops tasked with dealing with the scourge of child sex abuse within the Portuguese Catholic Church, the prelates have all been ‘rethinking’
Third priest outed for child sex abuse suspended, pending further inquiries
The Bishop of Évora D. Francisco Senra Coelho, has chosen his own methods of dealing with priests suspected of child sex abuse. Contrary to the thinking coming out of the
Azores bishop acts over priests suspected of child sex abuse
Suspends both – contrary to intimated practice on mainland The diocese of Angra, in the Azores, has suspended two priests who are being investigated for alleged cases of the sexual
Bishop calls for forgiveness for pedophile priests
In an interview that is so out of touch with the feelings of the nation that it truly cannot merit much space, the Bishop of Beja, D. João Marques has