The Vatican Supreme Court has cleared a senior priest accused of making advances towards a German nun during confession, the Vatican said on Friday. The five-member Supreme Court, the Apostolic Signatura, said in a statement that after careful examination the “serious” allegation could not be proved “with the required moral certitude”. Austrian priest Hermann Geissler proclaimed his innocence but resigned in January as one of three top officials at the Congregation for the Doctrine of […]
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Australian nun Fox, now in Australia, criticizes PHL president on “reign of tyranny”
The 71-year old Australian missionary Patricia Fox is now back in her home country Australia after leaving the Philippines Saturday night, Nov. 3. After losing a long legal battle with Manila to stop her deportation, she attacked Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “reign of tyranny” Sunday. Fox, who spent almost three decades working with Philippine laborers, farmers and urban poor, was accused of illegally engaging in political activism as Duterte’s government cracked down on foreign […]
Australian nun who angered Duterte to leave Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — An Australian nun who battled a government bid to expel her from the Philippines after she angered President Rodrigo Duterte, said Wednesday she will leave rather than face certain arrest and deportation. Patricia Fox’s abrupt announcement came because immigration authorities refused hours earlier to extend her tourist visa and ordered the 71-year-old out by Saturday. Fox, who has spent nearly three decades advocating for the Philippines’ poorest, has become a symbol […]





