Edna Tarigan
Edna Tarigan is an author at Religion News Service.
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The pope urges Indonesia to live up to its promise of ‘harmony in diversity’
By Edna Tarigan and Nicole Winfield — September 6, 2024
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Pope Francis compared Indonesia's human diversity to the archipelago’s 17,000 islands. He said each one contributes something specific to form “a magnificent mosaic, in which each tile is an irreplaceable element in creating a great original and precious work.”
Pope urges religious orders to pray for new priests and nuns as their numbers continue to fall
By Nicole Winfield — July 19, 2024
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged religious orders on Monday to work and pray harder for new priests and nuns to join, as he acknowledged the congregations’ futures are at risk with the numbers of men and women entering Catholic religious life plummeting in parts of the world.
Vatican will prepare a document on the role of women in leadership in the Catholic Church
By Nicole Winfield — July 12, 2024
RNS — On Tuesday, the Vatican announced that work is beginning on a document regarding women in leadership roles in the Catholic Church. Longstanding demands by women to have a greater say in the church's life have mixed with Pope Francis' big church reform process, culminating in this document. However, it faces criticism for perpetuating the same issues it claims to address.
Chief prosecutor defends Vatican’s legal system after recent criticism of pope’s absolute power
By Nicole Winfield — July 11, 2024
ROME (AP) — Prosecutor Alessandro Diddi's defense comes as the Vatican tribunal finalizes its written reasonings for its December 2023 verdicts. The tribunal convicted a cardinal and eight others of various financial-related crimes related to the Holy See’s 350 million euro investment in a London property, but has not yet explained its decisions.
Mosaics by an artist accused of abusing women will stay on the Lourdes shrine, for now
By Nicole Winfield — July 5, 2024
ROME (AP) — A French bishop has put off any decision on whether to remove mosaics by an ex-Jesuit artist accused of abusing women, saying that they’ll stay for now on the Lourdes shrine but that eventually they should be removed.
Defendant in Vatican trial takes case to UN, accuses pope of violating his rights with surveillance
By Nicole Winfield — June 20, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Raffaele Mincione, a London-based financier, submitted a complaint last week to the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights via a special procedure that allows individuals or groups to provide the U.N. with information about alleged rights violations in countries or institutions.
Pope Francis becomes first pontiff to address a G7 summit, raising alarm about AI. The G7 responds
By Kelvin Chan and Nicole Winfield — June 14, 2024
BARI, Italy (AP) — Generative AI technology has dazzled the world with its capabilities to produce humanlike-responses, but it’s also sparked fears about AI safety and led to a jumble of global efforts to rein it in.
Vatican detains ex-employee who allegedly tried to sell back manuscript of Bernini’s basilica canopy
By Nicole Winfield — June 7, 2024
ROME (AP) — Vatican police have detained a former employee on charges of attempted extortion after he allegedly tried to sell a 17th-century gilded manuscript describing Bernini’s designs for the altar canopy of St. Peter’s Basilica back to the Holy See.
Retired judge finds no reliable evidence against Quebec cardinal; purported victim declines to talk
By Rob Gillies and Nicole Winfield — May 22, 2024
ROME (AP) — The allegations were contained in an amended class-action lawsuit filed in Canadian court against 100 current and former church personnel of the archdiocese.
Vatican Museums staff challenge the pope with a legal bid for better terms and treatment
By Nicole Winfield — May 13, 2024
ROME (AP) — The 49 employees, museum staffers, cited the social teaching of the Catholic Church and Francis’ own appeals for employers to respect the dignity of workers in demanding better treatment.
Holy Year or holy mess, Vatican and Rome begin dash to 2025 Jubilee with papal bull, construction
By Nicole Winfield — May 9, 2024
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will preside over a ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica for the formal reading of the papal bull, or official edict, that lays out the spiritual theme of hope for the year.
Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale’s must-see prison show
By Paolo Santalucia and Nicole Winfield — April 29, 2024
VENICE, Italy (AP) —Francis traveled to the lagoon city to visit the Holy See’s pavilion at the Biennale contemporary art show and meet with the people who created it.
Vatican complains after French court rules in favor of nun dismissed from religious order
By Nicole Winfield — April 15, 2024
ROME (AP) — The case is highly unusual, because it represented a secular civilian court essentially determining that the Vatican’s in-house canonical procedures grossly violated the nun’s fundamental rights.
Brazil’s Yanomami leader asks the Pope to support President Lula in reversing damage to the Amazon
By Nicole Winfield — April 11, 2024
VATICAN CITY (AP) — History’s first Latin American pope has made caring for the environment, especially the Amazon, a hallmark of his papacy.
Peru archbishop who sued 2 journalists over reports on abuses, financial corruption resigns early
By Franklin BriceÑo and Nicole Winfield — April 4, 2024
ROME (AP) —The Vatican has had its eye on religious movement Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, which has chapters across South America and the U.S., for over a decade.
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