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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...

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Francis 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...

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Homilies 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...

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Sandro 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...

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Nullity 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...

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Morning 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...

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All 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...

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Jubilee 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...

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The 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...

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When 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,...

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At 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...

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The “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...

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Francis 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,...

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News 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...

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Ettore 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...

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Married 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...

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Morning 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...

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“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...

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Over 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...

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Married 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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