GenevaLunch » Vatican http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Vatican’s butler arrested for leaking documentshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/27/vaticans-butler-arrested-for-leaking-documents/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/27/vaticans-butler-arrested-for-leaking-documents/#comments Sun, 27 May 2012 07:22:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70574 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Benoit XVI’s butler was arrested Wednesday 23 May for leaking highly confidential documents to an Italian journalist. The arrest follows weeks of turmoil with documents leaked that included confidential messages and documents about financial transparency, sexual scandals and negotiations with private religious organizations. The butler, or [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/27/vaticans-butler-arrested-for-leaking-documents/feed/ 0 Irish report on children’s death in state care “harrowing”http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/23/irish-report-on-childrens-death-in-state-care-harrowing/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/23/irish-report-on-childrens-death-in-state-care-harrowing/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:31:19 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=68214 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An independent report into the deaths of 115 children in state care in Ireland,  was described as “very harrowing” by the country’s Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald. She spoke on RTE’s Morning Ireland Thursday 22 March. The account, compiled by the children’s charity Barnardos reports on the deaths of children from unnatural [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/23/irish-report-on-childrens-death-in-state-care-harrowing/feed/ 0 Cloyne Report: The Vatican recalls its ambassador to Irelandhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/25/cloyne-report-the-vatican-recalls-its-ambassador-to-ireland/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/25/cloyne-report-the-vatican-recalls-its-ambassador-to-ireland/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:57:37 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=60166 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Vatican has recalled its ambassador to Ireland following the harsh accusations of the Irish government saying the Vatican sabotaged efforts by Catholic bishops to report clerical sex abuse cases to police. The Irish government had demanded the Vatican to explain a report suggesting it may have discouraged the reporting of child [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/25/cloyne-report-the-vatican-recalls-its-ambassador-to-ireland/feed/ 0 Irish leader berates Vatican, relations at “historic low”http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/21/irish-leader-berates-vatican-relations-at-historic-low/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/21/irish-leader-berates-vatican-relations-at-historic-low/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:35:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60040 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Ireland is reeling today after Taoiseach Enda Kenny tore into the Vatican Wednesday 20 July, “in language never before used by an Irish government leader,” as the Irish Times put it, with the national newspaper noting that relations with the Vatican had reached a historic low. “Kenny accused the Vatican of downplaying [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/21/irish-leader-berates-vatican-relations-at-historic-low/feed/ 0 Between Royals and bin Laden: a beatificationhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/02/between-royals-and-bin-laden-a-beatification/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/02/between-royals-and-bin-laden-a-beatification/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 11:04:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57143 GenevaLunch.com The beatification of a pope who is still remembered by millions would normally make front-page news for a few days, but Pope Jean-Paul II, who was beatified in Rome Saturday 30 April, had the misfortune to slip between two mega media news events: the royal wedding in Britain and the death in Pakistan of Osama [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/02/between-royals-and-bin-laden-a-beatification/feed/ 0 Pope names 24 new cardinalshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/21/pope-names-24-new-cardinals/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/21/pope-names-24-new-cardinals/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:12:40 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=48871 GenevaLunch.com Pope Benedict XVI has named 24 Catholic archbishops as cardinals, the Vatican announced 20 October. Ten of the newly named cardinals are Italian, two are American and one, Archbishop Kurt Koch, is Swiss. Commentators note that very few of those named by Benedict are from developing countries, which now account for two-thirds of the Catholic [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/21/pope-names-24-new-cardinals/feed/ 0 Head of Vatican bank in money laundering investigationhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/22/head-of-vatican-bank-in-money-laundering-investigation/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/22/head-of-vatican-bank-in-money-laundering-investigation/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:29:08 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=47392 GenevaLunch.com Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the head of the Vatican bank, is under investigation by Italian tax police for suspected money laundering. Italian authorities seized €23 million from an account with a third bank. The Vatican’s Institute for Religious Works (IRW), the official name for the bank, is not subject to Italian and European Union banking rules, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/22/head-of-vatican-bank-in-money-laundering-investigation/feed/ 0 Vatican says womens’ ordination a “grave crime”http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/16/vatican-says-womens-ordination-a-grave-crime/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/16/vatican-says-womens-ordination-a-grave-crime/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:43:36 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=44980 GenevaLunch.com Women’s groups are angered by new rules which make the “attempted ordination of women” a “grave crime against the sacraments” , according to Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi. Bishops and the women who are ordained may be excommunicated. The new rules coincide with new rules governing clerical abuse of children. The changes to Canon, or Church, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/16/vatican-says-womens-ordination-a-grave-crime/feed/ 1 Obituary: Philippe de Weck, former UBS boss, dieshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/12/obituary-philippe-de-weck-former-ubs-boss-dies/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/12/obituary-philippe-de-weck-former-ubs-boss-dies/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:03:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=33582 GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Philippe de Weck, who was the managing director of Swiss bank UBS from 1966-1976 and then head of the board for another four years, has died, age 90, in Fribourg. De Weck was the only head of the bank who has come from the French-speaking part of Switzerland. He remained a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/12/obituary-philippe-de-weck-former-ubs-boss-dies/feed/ 0 First African cardinal named to justice and peace posthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/27/first-african-cardinal-named-to-justice-and-peace-post/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/27/first-african-cardinal-named-to-justice-and-peace-post/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:36:58 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30462 GenevaLunch.com Cardinal Peter Turkson, of Cape Coast, Ghana has been named to be president of the Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace by Pope Benedict XVI 24 October at a special meeting in the Vatican to promote peace and justice in Africa. Cardinal Turkson,61, is Ghana’s first cardinal. The justice and peace council was formed after [...]

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