“The People, Mystical Category.” The Political Vision of the...
An essay by Professor Zanatta has come out in Argentina and Italy, on the “populism” of Francis. The thread that ties together his visit to Lesbos and his affinity for the anti-capitalist and...
View ArticleIndissoluble Marriage? Yes, But For the Chosen Few
Not only the doctrine of the Church, but the very words of Jesus on marriage are now reinterpreted in the most varied of ways. According to the biblicist Silvio Barbaglia, in the Gospels absolute...
View ArticleThe German Option of the Argentine Pope
Cardinal Kasper and the progressive wing of the Church of Germany have gotten what they wanted. On communion for the divorced and remarried, Francis is on their side. He made up his mind a while ago,...
View ArticleHeresiarch Kasper: Pope will not preserve that which has been! Do you get it...
It really is time Catholics; wake up! Get out of your doldrums and your daydreams and your fantasy that all is well. The crisis in the Church which came to the surface during and after the Second...
View ArticleJews. The Discord of the Four Brothers
They celebrated Passover together, but then they went their separate ways again. The four subgroups of the Jews of Israel analyzed for the first time in depth by the Pew Research Center in Washington...
View ArticleInstructions For Not Losing the Way in the Labyrinth of “Amoris...
Intentionally written in a vague form, the post-synodal exhortation allows two opposite ways out. A Dominican theologian indicates the right one here. As in a little catechism, for the use of priests...
View ArticleFrancis, Pope. More Infallible Than He There Is None
He displays a willingness to reconsider the dogma of infallibility. But in reality he is vesting full power in himself much more than his immediate predecessors did. And he is acting as an absolute...
View ArticleThe most wonderfullest, and infalliblest Pope evah!
Will he infallibly declare that none that come after Francis the Great are infallible (when declared so and on matters of faith and morals only) for all you papolaters our there!Francis, Pope. More...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 10/05/16
Rodrigo Duterte, a politician who has clashed with Church leaders, is the new president of the Philippines. Belgian Archbishop Jozef De Kesel has said that he favours “the model of the Eastern Catholic...
View ArticleReading Exercises. The “Amoris Laetitia” of Cardinal Müller
In a monumental discourse in Spain, the prefect of the doctrine of the faith leads the post-synodal exhortation back to the course of the Church’s previous discipline. Too late. Because Francis has...
View ArticleYes, No, I Don’t Know, You Figure It Out. The Fluid Magisterium of Pope...
He never says all that he has in mind, he just leaves it to guesswork. He allows everything to be brought up again for discussion. Thus everything becomes a matter of opinion, in a Church where...
View ArticleSi, Si, No, No?
Yes, No, I Don’t Know, You Figure It Out. The Fluid Magisterium of Pope FrancisHe never says all that he has in mind, he just leaves it to guesswork. He allows everything to be brought up again for...
View ArticleFrancis: “I Can Say: Yes. Period”
This is how the pope responded to the question of whether something has changed with respect to the previous discipline on communion for the divorced and remarried. A Dominican theologian explains what...
View ArticleThe Four Hooks On Which Bergoglio Hangs His Thought
They have been his guiding criteria ever since he was young. And now they inspire his way of governing the Church. Here they are for the first time, analyzed by a philosopher and frontier missionary...
View ArticleYes, No, I Don’t Know, You Figure It Out. The Fluid Magisterium of Pope Francis
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View Article“Amoris Laetitia” Has a Ghostwriter. His Name Is Víctor...
Startling resemblances between the key passages of the exhortation by Pope Francis and two texts from ten years ago by his main adviser. A double synod for a solution that had already been written Read...
View ArticleJorge Bergoglio and Víctor Manuel Fernández unmasked
Sandro Magister has done some heavy journalistic lifting with this analysis of Amoris Laetitia and its Archbishop of Kissing’s ghostwriter.When you read at the link, it will turn your stomach when you...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 26/05/16
The SSPX must “unreservedly recognise” essential elements of Vatican II before it can be reconciled to Rome, Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said (Massimo Faggioli). Benedict XVI may appear publicly on the...
View ArticleMüller Out, Schönborn In. The Pope Has Changed Doctrine Teachers
For Francis, the right interpretation of “Amoris Laetitia” is not that of the prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, but that of the Austrian cardinal. Here, for the first time, is...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 31/05/16
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has proposed “a new way to frame the problem” of food loss in a speech at the FAO. The Russian Orthodox Church has welcomed the appointment of Archbishop Celestino Migliore...
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