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Waka Waka Franciscans in Poland

Anything the Dominicans can do the Franciscans do worse.

Lady Gaga Dominicans in Poland

Court judgement expected after raid on Cardinal's home in 2010

The Supreme Court focused on Tuesday for the fourth time on documents seized by the Brussels magistrate Wim De Troy in June 2010 from Archbishop's Palace of Mechelen and from offices and the private residence of Cardinal Danneels. The highest court in the country must decide if the Court of Indictment in Brussels had reason to exclude these documents from the file because the searches were not legal.

Searches conducted on 24 June 2010 were within the framework of Operation Chalice, the investigation by the Brussels judge, Wim De Troy of evidence for sexual abuse of children by clergy and the possible cover-up of these cases within the Catholic Church. Three differently constituted Court of Indictments decided one after the other that these searches were initially irregular, then they were perfectly legal and finally they were illegal. In their last judgment of November 29, 2011, the Court of Indictment found that the documents seized during the searches should be excluded from the file. The Court of Cassation quashed the decision because it was inadequate but the judgment declaring the raids irregular has not been finally broken. The Court of Indictment again decided in December 2012 that these parts should be excluded from file, but according to several plaintiffs, the Court is wrong and it must be overturned when the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation takes the opposite view. The Court will deliver its judgment on May 28

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Pope praises good works of atheists

"Atheists should be seen as good people if they do good, Pope Francis has said in his latest urging that people of all religions, and none, work together.

The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics made his comments in the homily of his morning mass at his residence, a daily event at which he speaks without prepared comments."

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Cathcon comments:

Matthew 5:46 For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this?

The point is not to do good, but to be good and to be good as a result of doing good requires God's grace. And where is grace to be found?

St Thomas on Whether anyone without grace can merit eternal life?

Light shone into Vatican Bank

During the course of 2012, particularly in the last few months of that year, the AIF (Financial Information authority), the Vatican’s financial watchdog set up by Benedict XVI and led by President Attilio Nicora, has flagged 6 suspicious activities in the Vatican or in the Holy See’s bodies, against last year’s one suspicious activity. The Vatican Bank, (IOR) was found to be implicated in some suspicious transactions.

Two information requests were sent to domestic authorities and two reports to the Promoter of Justice, that is, the Vatican City State’s judicial authority. Last year, an information request was sent to foreign authorities and three were received by foreign authorities.

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