Catholic Mexico, a Unique Case in Latin America
There the Roman Church has survived the most devastating anti-religious persecutions. And it stands up better than other countries to the challenge of the Pentecostalist sects. A child martyr soon to...
View ArticleThe Protest of Ukrainian Catholics: “The Pope Supports Russian...
The archbishop of Kiev gives voice to the bitterness of his faithful, because of the embrace between Francis and the patriarch of Moscow and the “half truths” of the document they signed in Havana Read...
View ArticleAt the Summit Is the Embrace in Havana, But At the Base Unity Is Far Away
The account of two Australian spouses, he a Catholic, she Orthodox. Point by point, all the elements of the dispute between the two Churches, in everyday life Read more... The post At the Summit Is the...
View ArticlePope Backpedals on Divorced and Remarried, His Advisers Don’t
After the Jesuit Spadaro, the bishop Semeraro is also pushing for communion to be given to them. But with very debatable arguments. Confuted here by an expert in family pastoral care, Juan José...
View ArticlePaul VI and the Nuns Raped in the Congo. What the Pope Never Said
First Francis and then Fr. Lombardi have restated for the umpteenth time that pope Montini permitted those nuns to take birth control pills. But that’s false. Here is how that urban legend was born....
View ArticleTeacher’s Pets in the School of Francis: The Bishops of the Philippines
They have encouraged the faithful in the use of contraception “in circumstances that invite a re-evaluation of the ban.” As suggested by the pope, when asked about the Zika virus Read more... The post...
View ArticlePriests With Wives Yes, But As Brother and Sister
This was the discipline in effect during the first centuries of the Church. From Mexico a missionary is re-proposing it for today as well. He has written about it in a book that he sent to the pope,...
View ArticleNo To Woman As Priest. But At Least Let Her Give the Homily
“L’Osservatore Romano” is calling for this in its women’s supplement. But Francis would have to contradict himself, in addition to the age-old tradition of the Church. Because he as well, two years...
View ArticleWelcome, Wealthy. Francis Receives Them With Open Arms
And receives lavish donations from them. Name by name, all the magnates of finance and technocracy to whom the pope has given audience this year Read more... The post Welcome, Wealthy. Francis Receives...
View ArticleThe Few Big Things That Francis and Kirill Didn’t Say To Each Other In...
Not only do the Orthodox not recognize the Catholic sacraments as valid, but they call into doubt whether the Church of Rome is a true Church. They accuse it of having corrupted the purity and...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 17/03/16
The Pope’s apostolic exhortation on the family synod could be published on Saturday, Cardinal Walter Kasper has said. Islam owes its survival to a Christian king, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar has told...
View ArticleJoseph Ratzinger Back in the Chair
Not the cathedra of bishop of Rome, but that of professor of theology. An unexpected lesson from the pope emeritus on the capital questions of Christian thought today Read more... The post Joseph...
View ArticleWashing For All. The Holy Thursday of Francis
The washing of feet now overshadows the Mass of the last supper. The pope has admitted women to the ceremony, as long as they belong to the Church. But he is pushing even farther, and is also washing...
View ArticleHow Cardinal Müller Is Rereading the Pope
Point by point, the exegesis made by the prefect of doctrine on the Francis’ words that most lend themselves to misinterpretation. On homosexuality, communion for the divorced and remarried, Luther,...
View Article“Francis alarms us enormously, and not only us. And yet we like him”
The surprising analysis of the Francis enigma, made by the superior general by the Society of Saint Pius X, Bernard Fellay. With the account of the visits of one cardinal and three bishops, sent...
View ArticleAsia Bibi Sentenced To Death For Faith. But in the Vatican Her Case Is Taboo
Every time Islam is in the middle, Francis is extremely cautious. But on Pakistan his reticence is at its highest. Here is the story of the Christian mother on which he is silent. She has been in...
View ArticleWhat’s Inside “Amoris Lætitia.” Two Cardinals Say So
They are Baldisseri and Schönborn, whom Pope Francis has chosen to present his take on the post-synodal exhortation. They have already said what they think. The first in a letter, the second in an...
View ArticleIntegration Yes, Communion Who Knows? The Pope’s Sibylline Response
Excerpts from the post-synodal exhortation “Amoris Lætitia.” In 264 pages and 325 paragraphs not a single clear word in favor of communion for the divorced and remarried Read more... The post...
View ArticleFrancis and Antonio, a Couple in Excellent “Society”
The pope has in Fr. Antonio Spadaro, a Jesuit like him, his authorized translator. Here is how “La Civiltà Cattolica” restates in clearer words what “Amoris lætitia” presents in allusive form Read...
View ArticleCurtain’s Up! Showtime at the Pope’s Theater
Lesbos and Lampedusa. Holy door and washing of feet. The briefcase in hand on the airplane staircase. Here is how Francis is enacting the pedagogical theater of the seventeenth-century Jesuits Read...
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