A Vatican letter to a New York priest confirms the Holy See knew of sexual abuse allegations against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick in 2000, Catholic News Service reported Friday. The U.S. bishops’ official news service, Catholic News Service (CNS) also says the 12-year-old letter “confirms elements” of the explosive 11-page testimony of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. […]
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British Airways Hacked With Details of 380k Credit Cards Stolen…
British Airways said Thursday that the personal and financial details of customers making bookings between August 21 and September 5 were stolen in a data breach involving 380,000 payment cards. “We are investigating, as a matter of urgency, the theft of customer data from our website and our mobile app. The stolen data did not […]
What Has Pope Francis Covered Up?
The Catholic Church is confronting a series of interconnected scandals so shameful that its very survival is threatened. Pope Francis himself is accused of covering up the activities of one of the nastiest sexual predators ever to wear a cardinal’s hat: his close ally Theodore McCarrick, the retired Archbishop of Washington, DC. Popes John Paul […]
Brazil Museum Fire Ruins 700 Ancient Egyptian Artifacts…
The massive fire that recently hit the National Museum of Brazil destroyed all 700 ancient Egyptian artifacts displayed in the pharaonic hall, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities said in a statement Thursday. “According to a preliminary report, the fire that engulfed all sections destroyed all its artifacts including those in the pharaonic hall, which contained […]
British Labour Just Adopted a Definition of Anti-Semitism That Is Anti-Semitic…
Ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected head of the UK’s Labour Party, dire warnings of anti-Semitism have been a mainstay of the country’s daily headlines (MW articles). Prominent figures claiming to fight this wave of anti-Jewish hatred unfailingly cited one silver bullet: the so-called IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of anti-Semitism. Only by enforcing […]
The Strange Timestamp in the New Novichok ‘Evidence’…
Today, in a politically convenient moment, the British government released new information about the poisoning of the British spy Sergej Skripal, his daughter, and three other persons. It claims to have identified two men with Russian passports who arrived in London from Moscow on March 2, went to Salisbury on March 3 on a ‘reconnaissance’ […]
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WATCH: Mexican Mayor Seeks Asylum in U.S. After Cartel Threats…
Over the weekend, Elvia Del Socorro Ortega, the newly elected councilwoman for the city of Buenavista, Michoacan, published a video where she announced she was stepping down from her position and leaving her political party MORENA. In addition to being a councilwoman-elect, Socorro was set to take over as mayor of Buenavista following the murder […]
DOCUMENTARY: Francis Ignored, Covered-Up Abuse in Argentina Before Becoming Pope…
German national TV channel ZDF is rerunning a documentary it produced last year that claims that Pope Francis, as Archbishop Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, ignored cries for justice from abuse victims in his diocese. The documentary is now gaining traction in the fallout of Archbishop Viganò’s testimony that the Pope covered-up the abuse of now […]
Over a Million Homes Lose Power, Deaths Reported As Typhoon Jebi Rips Through Japan…
A powerful typhoon slammed into western Japan on Tuesday, inundating the region’s main international airport and blowing a tanker into a bridge, disrupting land and air travel, and leaving thousands stranded. At least eight people died and scores were injured. Jebi, reportedly the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Japan since 1993, headed north across […]
Viganó Doubles Down: McCarrick Was Restricted Under Benedict, But ‘he didn’t obey’…
Disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick continued making public appearances after Pope Benedict XVI had imposed sanctions upon him because “he didn’t obey” the Holy Father, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive interview. The former papal nuncio to the U.S. responded to efforts in the media to question his testimony that Pope Francis covered-up […]
Bikini-Clad Blimp of London Mayor Sadiq Khan to Fly Over U.K. Capital…
A giant blimp of London Mayor Sadiq Khan will be seen in the UK capital’s skies this weekend after protesters were given permission to fly the crowdfunded balloon in Westminster. More than 3,000 supporters have donated more than £58,000 ($75,500) in total to fund the 29-foot balloon, which depicts the mayor reclining in a small […]
Saudi Arabia Condemns UN Report on Yemen War Crimes…
A Tuesday report released b the UN confirmed in considerable detail misdeeds by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, killing thousands of civilians in Yemen, raping and torturing detainees, and using child soldiers. The report warned these may amount to war crimes. While they didn’t specifically dispute any of this, Saudi Arabia was predictably furious about […]
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IAEA Report: Iran Is Complying With Nuclear Deal Restrictions…
Iran has remained within the main restrictions on its nuclear activities imposed by a 2015 deal with major powers, a confidential report by the U.N. atomic watchdog indicated on Thursday. In its second quarterly report since President Donald Trump announced in May that the United States would quit the accord and reimpose sanctions, the International […]
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: Journalists Must Ask What Happened to ‘Cache of Documents’ Benedict Gave to Francis…
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has spoken out from an undisclosed location in response to attempts to discredit his 11-page testimony implicating Pope Francis and several senior prelates in coving up Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s abuse of seminarians and priests. In an interview this week with Aldo Maria Valli, an Italian journalist who helped Viganò plan the […]
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Pope Francis Facing Calls to Resign…
The Catholic Church is reeling after a grand jury report in Pennsylvania found that possibly more than 1,000 children in six dioceses had been sexually abused by about 300 priests or higher ranking officials. On top of that, the report said that bishops and other top church officials had tried to contain the public outcry […]
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Corbyn’s Labour is Being Made to Fail – by Design…
The Labour party, relentlessly battered by an organized campaign of smears of its leader, Jeremy Corbyn – first for being anti-semitic, and now for honoring Palestinian terrorists – is reportedly about to adopt the four additional working “examples” of anti-semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Labour initially rejected these examples – stoking […]
Credit Suisse Freezes $5B of Russian Money Due to U.S. Sanctions…
One of Switzerland’s largest banks, Credit Suisse, has frozen roughly 5 billion Swiss francs ($5 billion) of money linked to Russia to avoid falling foul of U.S. sanctions, according to its accounts, further increasing pressure on Moscow. The move by Credit Suisse, which owned aircraft surrendered by Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska and had lent money […]
Brussels, City of Spies…
Forget Vienna and Berlin. There’s another big nest of spies in Europe: Brussels. Suspicions among EU officials that the U.K. spied on them to obtain sensitive Brexit plans made headlines in Britain last week. But for many in the Brussels bubble, spying on both friends and foes is simply business as usual. For some foreign […]
Belgium: New Round of Brexit Talks Begin in Brussels…
British Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab is visiting Brussels Aug. 21-22 for Brexit talks with the European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, the Financial Times reported Aug. 21. The European Union and the United Kingdom are expected to discuss the latest British proposal for the terms of a future relationship with the European Union. A […]
Saudi Arabia Halts Aramco Public Listing, Disbanding Advisers…
Saudi Arabia’s part flotation of its national oil company Aramco has been halted, sources told Reuters news agency, killing what would have been the largest stock listing in history. The reversal of a cornerstone of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s economic reform policy spells uncertainty for the rest of his programme, dubbed “Vision 2030”. Saudi […]
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