Articles by AC Wimmer
French bishop under investigation for ‘inappropriate’ behavior toward a woman
Nov 17, 2022 / 03:25 amThe archbishop emeritus of Strasbourg said he deeply regretted making “inappropriate gestures toward a young woman of legal age” in the late 1980s.
‘Truly not an easy task’: German bishops begin talks in Rome amid Synodal Way concerns
Nov 14, 2022 / 10:30 amBishop Georg Bätzing said the German bishops would “openly and honestly address” the topics of the process during their ad limina visit in Rome this week.
Pope Francis meets with Father James Martin at Vatican
Nov 11, 2022 / 05:24 amPope Francis received Jesuit Father James Martin in a private audience in the apostolic palace inside the Vatican on Friday.
Pope Francis, King of Jordan discuss ‘need to encourage Christian presence’ in Middle East
Nov 10, 2022 / 09:20 amPope Francis received King Abdullah II of Jordan on Thursday in the Vatican.
‘Priestly formation at the heart of evangelization,’ Pope Francis tells seminary rectors
Nov 10, 2022 / 09:00 amSpeaking to rectors and formators from Latin America Nov. 10, the pontiff called priest vocations “a gift of God to the Church and to the world.”
Vatican’s first auditor general and his deputy sue Secretariat of State
Nov 10, 2022 / 07:40 amLibero Milone and Ferruccio Panicco are seeking $9.25 million compensation for loss of earnings, damage to their reputations, and emotional suffering.
Pope Francis accepts resignation of German bishop found guilty of embezzlement
Nov 8, 2022 / 04:34 amPope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a German bishop who was convicted of embezzling money from a woman suffering from dementia.
French cardinal confesses to sexual abuse
Nov 7, 2022 / 09:00 amCardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard said on Monday that he had abused a 14-year-old girl several decades ago and was making himself available to authorities.
Pope Francis calls on religious not to be discouraged by ‘lack of vocations or by aging’
Nov 7, 2022 / 08:03 amThe pope addressed representatives of the Claretianum Institute of the Theology of the Consecrated Life at the Vatican on Nov. 7.
Iraqi archbishop calls for courageous dialogue among religions, end to violent persecution
Nov 3, 2022 / 08:00 amAddressing the Group of Twenty’s first-ever forum on religion on Nov. 2, Archbishop Bashar Warda drove home the need for “forgiveness and a renunciation of violence.”
Pope Francis accepts resignation of German archbishop
Nov 1, 2022 / 07:52 amArchbishop Schick said the pope had asked him to remain in office. “After presenting my reasons again, he then granted my request," the German bishop wrote in a statement.
Pope Francis calls on Catholics to become peacemakers
Nov 1, 2022 / 05:26 amPope Francis on Tuesday called on Catholics to “disarm their hearts” and become peacemakers.
Why Pope Francis’ November prayer intention is for children who suffer
Oct 31, 2022 / 09:01 am“There are still millions of boys and girls who suffer and live in conditions very similar to slavery,” the pontiff said in a video appeal issued Monday.
Pope Francis meets French President Emmanuel Macron
Oct 24, 2022 / 07:04 amPope Francis received French President Emmanuel Macron at the Vatican on Monday.
Archbishop Chaput: ‘Biden is not in communion with the Catholic faith’
Oct 23, 2022 / 05:32 amArchbishop Charles Chaput said on Saturday that Joe Biden “is not in communion with the Catholic faith” and that “any priest who now provides Communion to the president participates in his hypocrisy.”
Benedict XVI reflects on Vatican II in new letter
Oct 21, 2022 / 07:05 amThe letter provides fresh observations from one of the few remaining theologians to have personally participated in Vatican II, which opened 60 years ago this month.
English town forbids making sign of the cross, using holy water near abortion center
Oct 18, 2022 / 10:21 amThe Council of Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole in southern England has drawn red lines around an abortion provider and designated the area a “safe zone.”
Pope Francis calls on entrepreneurs to be ‘prophets’
Oct 17, 2022 / 07:15 amPope Francis has called on entrepreneurs to be “prophets” and transform the economy to ethical principles.
Pope Francis tells Cistercians: ‘The main thing is not to let the evil one steal our hope!’
Oct 17, 2022 / 06:21 amPope Francis told Cistercians on Monday to embrace “the greater poverty of spirit and goods in order to be more available to the Lord.”
Amid claim of coming ‘Asian millennium,’ Pope Francis tells bishops to discern Holy Spirit
Oct 12, 2022 / 09:00 amPope Francis on Wednesday called on Asia’s Catholic bishops, currently gathered in Thailand, to discern what the Holy Spirit is telling them.