“Scholas Occurrentes”: Francis’s Pedagogical Revolution
Goodbye, Catholic teaching. The worldwide network of schools that the pope is fostering and promoting with great fervor has a completely secularized educational paradigm. Instead of saints, the stars...
View ArticleAlice in “Amoris Laetitia” Land
The dazzling critique by an Australian scholar on the post-synodal exhortation. “We have lost all foothold, and fallen like Alice into a parallel universe, where nothing is quite what it seems to be”...
View ArticleAlice in “Amoris Laetitia” Land
From Sandro Magister:http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351311?eng=yThe dazzling critique by an Australian scholar on the post-synodal exhortation. “We have lost all foothold, and fallen...
View ArticleIt’s Everyone Or No One. The Synodality That Is Sinking the Council
A few days before it opens, the pan-Orthodox Council is in danger of failing. The patriarchates of Bulgaria, Georgia, and Antioch have announced their withdrawal, and Moscow is supporting them. The...
View ArticleThe Pope Is Not Infallible. Here Are Eight Proofs
Mistakes, gaffes, memory lapses, urban legends. A list of errors in the discourses of Francis. The most disastrous in Paraguay Read more... The post The Pope Is Not Infallible. Here Are Eight Proofs...
View ArticleNot One Pope But Two, One “Active” and One...
It is the unprecedented innovation that Ratzinger seems to want to put into practice. It has been announced by his secretary, Georg Gänswein. Redoubling the already abundant ambiguities of the...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 17/06/16
The “great majority” of Catholic marriages today are invalid, Pope Francis has said (full text, full video, Edward Peters, Damian Thompson). The Catholic Church has opened a new hospital in South...
View ArticleFrancis and the Women. Homilies No, Diaconate More No Than Yes
The pope has reopened the discussion on the female diaconate, but has made it understood that he won’t do anything about it. And meanwhile he rejects the idea of having women preach at Mass Read...
View Article“Genocide,” the Word Francis Doesn’t Want To Say Anymore
He has removed it from his vocabulary on the verge of the journey to Armenia. And yet in the past he has used it repeatedly, including for the extermination carried out by the Turks a century ago. This...
View Article“Genocide,” the Word Francis Wanted to Repeat. In Armenia
He said it again, by surprise, at the presidential palace in Yerevan, in the first speech of his journey. Departing from the written text, which was silent on it Read more... The post...
View ArticleJoseph Ratzinger 65 Years Later
“And so on the Catholic priesthood fell the fury of Protestant criticism.” At the anniversary of the priestly ordination of the future Benedict XVI, Cardinal Müller recounts his unyielding resistance...
View ArticleCommunion For All, Even For Protestants
In addition to the divorced and remarried, for Luther’s followers as well there are those who are giving the go-ahead for the Eucharist. Here is how “La Civiltà Cattolica” interprets the pope’s...
View Article“Amoris Laetitia.” Basic Tips For Not Losing the Way
They are formulated by Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, who however asks also for “further guidelines on the part of the competent authority.” To prevent “risks and abuses both among pastors and among the...
View ArticlePoverty According to Francis. Virtue and Vice Together
It is the cornerstone of the magisterium of the pope. Who exalts it as a salvific value, but at the same time condemns it as an enemy to be fought. A philosopher analyzes this unresolved contradiction...
View ArticleJesus Will Return From the East. But at the Vatican They Have Lost the Compass
The Holy See disowns Cardinal Sarah, who wants all the priests and faithful at Mass to be “facing the Lord.” But he is not giving up, and is relaunching the proposal. From Ratzinger to Bergoglio, the...
View ArticleBrandmüller: “The Resignation of the Pope Is Possible, But May It...
The German cardinal, an authoritative historian of Christianity, weighs in on the ever more incandescent question of the resignation of Benedict XVI. Which in his judgment has not been good for the...
View ArticleA Pope Like None Before. Somewhat Protestant
The idyll between Francis and the followers of Luther. The alarm of cardinals and bishops against the “Protestantization” of the Catholic Church. But also the distrust of authoritative Lutheran...
View ArticleA “Pontificate of Exception." The Mystery of Pope Benedict
Against the Antichrists who are undermining the Church. The theories of the political philosopher Carl Schmitt applied to the pontificate of Joseph Ratzinger and to his resignation Read more... The...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 27/07/16
The Chinese government has blocked a group of 50 pilgrims who had boarded a plane bound for World Youth Day in Kraków, reports AsiaNews. A judge has dismissed the last remaining charge against two...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 02/08/16
Demonstrations by Copts in America “stain the image of Egypt nationally and internationally”, Pope Tawadros II has said. The funeral of Fr Jacques Hamel will take place in Rouen cathedral today....
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