BREAKING: Dominican real "theologian" determines Pope Francis’ Synod document...
Sandro Magister has another must-read column. A thorough and superb analysis of the Final Relation from the Synod. We must not allow the heretic priests, bishops and commentators to get away with their...
View ArticleFrancis Is Silent, But Another Jesuit Is Speaking For Him
He is Antonio Spadaro, director of “La Civiltà Cattolica.” In an article in his magazine he has already written what the pope will say on communion for the divorced and remarried Read more... The post...
View ArticleHomilies of the Christmas Season
From the archives of two great homilist popes, Leo the Great and Benedict XVI. With links to the Gregorian chants of this liturgical cycle Read more... The post Homilies of the Christmas Season...
View ArticleSandro Magister reinstated at Holy See Press Office
You might recall that Sandro Magister was stripped of his credentials at the Holy See Press Office. They have been reinstated. At the risk of making a post hoc ergo propter hoc error, I note that his...
View ArticleNullity of Marriage. A Reform That Risks Sinking in the Dock
The extreme facility of the procedures was the solution contrived by Pope Francis to readmit the divorced and remarried to communion. But not everything is working out as planned. A commentary by the...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 31/12/15
The persecution of Christians and other religious minorities by ISIS should be recognised as “genocide”, US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said. Bishop Joseph Alessandro has praised Muslims...
View ArticleAll the Mysteries of the First Sacrament. Unveiled
Collected here for the first time are the fifteen baptismal homilies delivered by Benedict XVI at the Easter Vigil and on the first Sunday after Epiphany, when he baptized adults and children Read...
View ArticleJubilee of Mercy, But With the Confessionals Empty
The shocking letter of a priest with the care of souls. Fewer and fewer penitents, and less and less repentant. The counterproductive effects of a “door” thrown open too wide Read more... The post...
View ArticleThe Francis Effect is not necessarily a good thing
The Francis Effect is coined phrase used much by my good friend, Tommy Rosica. His Salt + Light corporate contributors invested thousands of dollars into a production and roll-out of a video of the...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Gay Unions, Bergoglio Doesn’t Say No
They are about to become law in Italy, but the pope is discouraging Catholics from raising the barricades. He did the same thing in Argentina. But there’s a difference in his politics on immigration,...
View ArticleAt the Vatican There Is a “Seismograph” That Is Setting Off Tremors
The latest incident is on how Francis interprets and implements Vatican Council II. The “school of Bologna” is chanting victory. But two letters from the pope say the opposite Read more... The post At...
View ArticleThe “No” To Pope Francis From the Chief Rabbi of Rome
He said it during the meeting with the pope at the synagogue. And it is the refusal to “discuss theology” with the Catholic Church. Because of Jewish fears of a blurring of that which distinguishes...
View ArticleFrancis and Kirill Together, Under Tropical Skies
The pope in Mexico, the Russian patriarch in Cuba. Both on visits to these countries in mid-February. Ready to surprise the world, with a meeting Read more... The post Francis and Kirill Together,...
View ArticleNews From the Eastern Front. Pan-Orthodox Council in Crete, While in Athens…
Agreement and disagreement among the Churches of Orthodoxy, on the verge of their first council after more than a thousand years. And from Rome a slap in the face for the Greek Church, with the...
View ArticleEttore Gotti Tedeschi: “The Devil Has Retired”
Because today many are going into the fires of hell on their own, and this may be the very reason for global warming… Reflections more serious than ironic from the former president of the IOR, on the...
View ArticleMarried Priests? At the Gregorian They’re Voting Against
Cardinals Parolin and Ouellet are lining up in defense of the celibacy of the Latin clergy, in a conference at the prestigious pontifical university. But once again the pope has let the German bishops...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 04/02/16
Turkey’s ambassador to the Holy See “will return to duty” after a dispute over the Armenian genocide, the country’s foreign ministry has said. The Moscow Patriarchate does not regard this year’s...
View Article“Laudato si',” a Too-Argentine Encylical
The effects of Latin American “prejudice” on the solutions proposed by Pope Francis to heal the world, in the critical analysis of an Australian theologian and economist Read more... The post...
View ArticleOver the Embrace Between Francis and Kirill Falls the Shadow of Putin
In order to meet with the patriarch of Moscow, the pope has given support to Russia’s policies in Ukraine and in the Middle East, disappointing the expectations of the Christians of those regions. As...
View ArticleMarried Priests. The Germany-Brazil Axis
In the accounts of a German theologian and a Brazilian bishop, Francis’s plan to allow local exceptions to the norm of clerical celibacy. Beginning with the Amazon Read more... The post Married...
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