Peruvian bishop defends Pope Leo XIV against accusations of cover-up
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Current Chiclayo Bishop Edinson Farfán at a press conference on Friday, May 9, 2025. / Credit: Diego López Marina/ACI Prensa Lima Newsroom, May 13, 2025 / 15:56 pm (CNA).Bishop Edinson Farfán of Chiclayo, Peru, is publicly defending the actions of his predecessor, now Pope Leo XIV, in the face of accusations that he covered up sexual abuse.
Current Chiclayo Bishop Edinson Farfán at a press conference on Friday, May 9, 2025. / Credit: Diego López Marina/ACI Prensa
Lima Newsroom, May 13, 2025 / 15:56 pm (CNA).
Bishop Edinson Farfán of Chiclayo, Peru, is publicly defending the actions of his predecessor, now Pope Leo XIV, in the face of accusations that he covered up sexual abuse.
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The Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library. the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City, is one of the oldest libraries in the world. / Credit: Checco2/ShutterstockVatican City, May 30, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).More than 80,000 ancient manuscripts from the Vatican Library will be restored and digitized thanks to an agreement with the Colnaghi Foundation. The initiative seeks to preserve unique documents and facilitate worldwide access to this treasure of the Church.The shelves of the Vatican Library house a large part of humanity's literary legacy. They include more than 82,000 manuscripts and 1.6 million printed books (more than 8,000 of them "incunabula," which means those printed before 1501).Among the gems in its catalog are a document with Botticelli's illustrations for the "Divine Comedy" and the only nearly complete copy of Cicero's "Republic" that has survived.Humidity and the decomposition of the inks over time have turned their preservation into a major c...
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null / Credit: New Africa/ShutterstockCNA Staff, May 29, 2025 / 14:42 pm (CNA).A lawsuit filed in Wisconsin alleges that an employee of a Catholic Charities affiliate there stole millions of dollars as part of a yearslong scheme involving credit card fraud and fake invoices. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee said in the lawsuit, filed earlier this month in Wisconsin circuit court, that former employee Brandi Ellis "abused her authority and misappropriated millions of dollars" when serving in a variety of financial roles within the organization. Ellis allegedly worked as an accountant, an accounting manager, and eventually as a finance manager at the charity, with her employment taking place from February 2014 to May 2024. The suit alleges that Ellis paid "false invoices ostensibly reflecting work and/or services completed or provided by vendors" but which actually funneled money to vendors with "personal or professional connections" to Ellis.&nbs...
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Cardinal Robert Sarah and Pope Leo XIV. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN NewsLima Newsroom, May 29, 2025 / 15:12 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV has appointed Cardinal Robert Sarah as his special envoy for the celebrations taking place in France commemorating the 400th anniversary of the apparitions of St. Anne to the Breton peasant Yvon Nicolazic.The Vatican stated that, as the papal special envoy, the prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments will preside over "the liturgical celebrations to be held July 25-26 at the Shrine of Sainte-Anne-d'Auray, Diocese of Vannes (France), on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the apparitions of St. Anne to the Breton peasant Yvon Nicolazic."In the early 1620s, Nicolazic experienced a vision of a radiant lady, later identified as St. Anne, the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She reportedly instructed him to rebuild a long-lost chapel dedicated to her on his land.On its website, the Sainte-Anne-d...
