In Rome Yes, In Florence No. Here’s How “Amoris Laetitia”...
In the pope’s diocese, the divorced and remarried can receive communion, in other Italian dioceses no. Because every bishop is deciding as he wishes. A manual by Cardinal Antonelli for confessors who...
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 ArticleSo Many Errors, Your Holiness. And Some Marked With Red
Francis likes his talk freewheeling, with all the risks that go with it. Here is a review of his latest blunders, a dozen in four months. The most sensational with China Read more... The post So Many...
View ArticleCelibacy For Priests. The Defense Takes the Floor
It will not be discussed at a synod, but pressure is growing in favor of the ordination of married men. The most highly esteemed of the Italian theologians has puts a spotlight on the question in an...
View ArticleLuther At the Stake. No, At the Altars. The Double Vision of the Jesuit Pope
Yesterday he saw the Protestant Reformation as the root of all evil. Today he celebrates it as “medicine for the Church.” But he doesn’t appear to have retracted his critiques. Here they are, word for...
View ArticleGoodbye, Jesuits. Vatican Media Get a New Face and New Boss
And this with a Jesuit pope, no less. Vatican Radio will stop broadcasting on shortwave. And “L’Osservatore Romano” will also be absorbed into a single “content hub.” Under the command of Monsignor...
View ArticleThe Vatican is reforming its communications – and so must our parishes
Sandro Magister, the authoritative Vaticanista, has an interesting report and commentary on what is happening in the world of the Vatican’s communications, which can be read here. It seems that at last...
View ArticleHappy Birthday To Luther. But in a Minor Key
While celebrating in Sweden the five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, Francis sidestepped the points of contrast. All of which remain, however. And meanwhile he continues to condemn...
View ArticleVenezuela. How Francis Is Coming To Save a Nation on the Brink of the Abyss
Step by step, the reconstruction of the pope’s direct intervention and that of his emissaries in the Venezuelan crisis. With former Spanish president Zapatero as mediator Read more... The post...
View ArticleThe Italy of the Primate of Italy Is a Bit Less Catholic
The followers of other religious confessions are on the rise in the country where the pope resides. But the most numerous are not the Muslims. They are the Orthodox and Protestants. And there are those...
View Article“Seeking Clarity.” The Appeal of Four Cardinals To the Pope
One letter. Five questions on the most controversial points of “Amoris Laetitia.” To which Francis has not replied. One more reason, they say, to “inform the people of God about our initiative” Read...
View ArticleAmerican Elections, Bishops’ Edition. The Numbers and the Moves Backstage
The new president is one of the thirteen cardinals of the famous letter that infuriated the pope. The new vice-president is a member of Opus Dei. The defeat of the bishops favored by Bergoglio Read...
View ArticleThe Pope Isn’t Talking, But His Cardinal Friends Are. And Accusing
The prefect of the new dicastery for the family attacks the archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, over how he is implementing “Amoris Laetitia” in his diocese. Here are the guidelines that...
View ArticleA New Council, Like Sixteen Centuries Ago
The conflicts set into motion today by “Amoris Laetitia” have a precedent in the Christological controversies of the late Roman empire. They were resolved by the ecumenical council of Chalcedon. From...
View ArticleNew Appeal to the Pope. The Catholic Doubts of “The New York Times”
In California the bishop of San Diego, a favorite of Bergoglio, admits de facto divorces and remarriages, as in any Protestant church. From the news arises the question: Can “Amoris Laetitia” be...
View ArticleBergoglio, Politician. The Myth of the Chosen People
The pope of mercy is also the one of the anti-capitalist and anti-globalization “popular movements.” Castro dies, Trump wins, the South American populist regimes crumble, but he isn’t giving up. He is...
View ArticleFrancis Doesn’t Like the Seminaries. Because They Form Priests Who Are...
Over just a few days, a hailstorm of rebukes. Which show the pope’s irritation over the criticisms of “Amoris Laetitia,” these too the fruit, in his judgment, of a legalistic and decadent mentality...
View ArticleThe Pope Is Not Answering the Four Cardinals. But Few Justify Him
Catholic Canada There are more and more cardinals and bishops, however, who are lining up in support of the authors of the five questions seeking clarification on the ambiguities of “Amoris Laetitia.”...
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