“L'Osservatore” Says What “Amoris Laetitia” Says. But...
Point and counterpoint between Rocco Buttiglione, in the pope’s newspaper, and Professor Robert A. Gahl of the Roman university of Opus Dei. The former in favor of communion for the divorced and...
View ArticleSecond Challenge To “L'Osservatore Romano.” Merecki Versus Guerra...
The Polish philosopher replies to the Mexican sociologist, who in the pope’s newspaper gave “Amoris Laetitia” an evolutionary interpretation, “on the basis of the change of epoch that we are living...
View ArticleFrancis the Rebel. Against “Ideological Colonization”
It is that, he says, of those who teach “that everyone can choose his or her sex.” And meanwhile the Australian bishops document how “gender” ideology is advancing everywhere, at the expense of...
View ArticleIn Appointing Bishops, the Pope Leans Toward Beijing
He is preparing, that is, to grant the communist authorities the privilege of selecting candidates. And he is exiling to an island in the Pacific the highest ranking Chinese archbishop in the curia,...
View ArticleFarewell, Poland. Buttiglione Triumphs in Chicago. And Rodrigo Guerra...
They were both scholars of the thought of Karol Wojtyla. But now they are in favor of communion for the divorced and remarried. The former garners the applause of Archbishop Cupich. And the latter...
View ArticleBergoglio Too Has His Nonnegotiable Principles
They are the four postulates with which he continually inspires his governance of the Church, the first of which says that “time is greater than space.” The trouble is that they do not hold up. An...
View ArticleDouble Friendly Fire Against the “Pope Emeritus”
First Cardinal Brandmüller, then Bishop Sciacca. The one an illustrious historian, the other a luminary of canon law. Both of the circle closest to Ratzinger. But both absolutely opposed to his...
View ArticleDiplomatic Spring Between Rome and Beijing. But for the Chinese Church It Is...
Baptisms are dropping off, vocations are collapsing. The numbers describe a Catholicism in full decline. And meanwhile the negotiation proceeds. Two revealing contributions from Cardinal Parolin Read...
View ArticleEcumenists Out of the House. But Inside It’s a Melee
Big smiles with Constantinople and Moscow. But a heavy hand with the Byzantine oases in the West. The emblematic cases of the Italo-Albanian dioceses and the monastery of Grottaferrata Read more... The...
View ArticleThe Francis Effect in the Curia: More Unemployment
Dozens of executives and officials have been left jobless by the suppression of their offices. Including some bishops and one cardinal Read more... The post The Francis Effect in the Curia: More...
View ArticleHow Ratzinger Sees Francis: “He Is the Man of Practical Reform”
The reigning pope as described by his predecessor: “So different from how I had known him.” And also very different from him Read more... The post How Ratzinger Sees Francis: “He Is the Man...
View ArticleWith Bergoglio the “Spirit of Assisi” Triumphs. But Ratzinger Is...
Francis reruns the encounter with men of all religions inaugurated by John Paul II thirty years ago. But the objections of the cardinal prefect of doctrine back then are still alive. And even more...
View ArticleNot Enough Celibate Priests? Make Way For Married Priests
This is the remedy being considered by Cardinal Hummes and Pope Francis for regions with a scarcity of clergy, starting with the Amazon. But there were also few missionaries in 17th-century China, and...
View ArticleParolin to the Nuncios: No Concession with China
In the appointment of future bishops, it will be the Chinese episcopal conference that proposes the candidates. But on the condition that they also join the thirty “underground” bishops whom Beijing...
View ArticleThe Azerbaijan of the Pope’s Visit. An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove
It is governed by a Muslim dynasty in apparent good relations with the Catholic Church. It has even financed restorations in the catacombs of Rome. But behind the facade there is no freedom, neither...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 30/09/16
Pope Francis will visit Colombia early next year, the country’s president has announced. A kidnapped seminary rector has been released in Nigeria. The Chaldean bishops have ordered “priests and monks...
View ArticleBuenos Aires and Rome. For Francis, These Are the Model Dioceses
In the one and the other the pope has made it known what kind of implementation he wants for the eighth chapter of “Amoris Laetitia,” the one about communion for the divorced and remarried. His...
View ArticleThe Reform of the Reform “Will Happen.” The Pope Wants It, Too
This is what Francis has said in private to Cardinal Sarah, only to deny the whole thing afterward in a statement. But the prefect of the liturgy is promising it once again, in a book of his that goes...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 07/10/16
Pope Francis will face some Muslim opposition when he visits Bangladesh next year, reports AsiaNews. An Argentine priest who denounced drug dealers has been found dead in his home. Russian Orthodox...
View ArticleAnything But an Example For the World. The German Church Is a Black Hole
Money, bureaucracy, worldliness, excommunications for those who do not pay. The biting accusation of Joseph Ratzinger against Catholicism in Germany. The same one that enjoys the favor of Pope Francis...
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