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Italian police have uncovered a major international computer-hacking operation that compromised private communications at the Vatican. Police in Rome announced the arrest of two engineers who are suspected of illicitly obtaining “information relative to state security.” The hackers, who were not identified, were described as London residents in their 40s. They had reportedly gained access to computer servers operated by Italian government leaders and European banking officials. The operation also penetrated the Vatican, police reported. Hackers gained access to computers used by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, at the Pontifical Council for Culture. They also hacked into computers at a Vatican guest...

Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, the secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, has announced the names of the nine prelates who will work with him to draft the final report of the upcoming synod on the family. Each of the three weeks of the synod, which begins on October 4 and concludes on October 25, is devoted to the discussion of one chapter of the synod’s instrumentum laboris, or working document. The final report, based on the discussions, will be presented to the synod fathers on October 24, whereupon it will be presented to the Holy Father, who is free to...

"Three Prelates on the evil plans for the Synod speaking in blunt terms on adultery and homosexuality!" Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness has published this post and this incredible video by Polonia Cristiana. CATHOLICS - WAKE UP! It is your duty and it is mine. You can be silent no longer. Our Mother is being raped! Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Return unto the LORD, thy God! "If we do not defend marriage, then we will not defend the Church Herself" Raymond Cardinal Burke Polonia Christiana has released an extraordinary video that focuses our attention on the very grave crisis in the Catholic...