Theodore McCarrick has been stripped of his status as cardinal for pursuing young men throughout his clerical career. “Uncle Ted” liked to take his “nephews” to bed with him. The public revelations of this fact evoked outrage. It was not so much that a churchman sinned as that he did so . . . . Continue Reading »
Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has announced to the bishops Pope Francis’s approval of new material addressing capital punishment in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (number 2267). The inserted passage notes “an . . . . Continue Reading »
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by john w. o’malley belknap, 320 pages, $24.95 In 1860 Pope Pius IX lost the papal states, which had been held by his predecessors for a thousand years. Four years later he issued the Syllabus of Errors. The eightieth and . . . . Continue Reading »
Did McCarrick and other abusers use the grant-making power of the Papal Foundation to curry favor and buy protection from Vatican officials? Continue Reading »
Eastern Orthodoxy may be on the verge of an epic crack-up with major ecumenical and geopolitical consequences. Continue Reading »
The pope is betraying Christians of every time and place who have bravely resisted attempts to make the Church of Jesus Christ bow to the state. Continue Reading »
An enumeration of principal theological difficulties in the Instrumentum Laboris. Continue Reading »
A letter to the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment. Continue Reading »
There is a new resolve among a critical mass of U.S. bishops to air out the McCarrick scandal. Continue Reading »
The working document for Synod-2018 reads like a draft of a Synod Final Report, which is a prescription for a failed Synod. Continue Reading »
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