Jeanie Hannaman

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - If you’re not a financial whiz, it can be difficult to follow the details of the Vatican financial scandals. Let me try to make it simple (since I’m not a financial whiz either), and see if you notice the single thread that runs all through the complex history... First the Vatican bank, the IOR, came under fire, with European banking regulators charging that it was open to money-laundering. Vatican officials resisted, but when European banks began cutting off banking privileges, the IOR had no choice, and began a painful process of internal reforms. The IOR has now won a clean bill of health from the regulators.

By Niwa Limbu, Catholic Herald - The Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, received Catholic Communion in St Peter’s Square yesterday, despite not being a Catholic... According to Catholic teaching, the Eucharist is reserved for those in full communion with the Church — baptised Catholics who affirm this teaching and who are spiritually prepared to receive it. Non-Catholics are normally excluded, except in rare cases where they share the Church’s faith in the Eucharist and cannot access a minister of their own community.