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Month: September 2017

Robert Spaemann on Josef Seifert, Amoris Laetitia and the Witness to Truth

Editor’s Note: the following is an interview with Professor Robert Spaemann, conducted by OnePeterFive’s Dr. Maike Hickson. Professor Spaemann is a prominent German Catholic philosopher and a former member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Maike Hickson (MH): Professor Josef Seifert is a student of yours who wrote his habilitation thesis under your guidance. Thus … Read more

Professor Pierantoni: Cardinal Burke Appears Pleased with Filial Correction

Today, LifeSiteNews published an interview with Professor Claudio Pierantoni, one of the signatories of the recent “Filial Correction” of Pope Francis with regard to Amoris Laetitia. Professor Pierantoni is an Italian scholar who now lives and teaches in Chile. He has just recently published a lucid and excellent defense of Professor Josef Seifert – whose … Read more

Cardinal Parolin’s Trip to Moscow: An Exercise in Ostpolitik

Towards the end of last month (Aug. 2017), the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, made a diplomatic visit to Moscow on behalf of Pope Francis and the Holy See. His trip, announced by the Vatican in late July, marks the first visit to Russia of the Church’s “prime minister” in nearly 20 years.[1] … Read more

Pope’s New Book Features Preface by LGBT & Gender Theory Activist

In February, 2016, Pope Francis told journalists in Poland on the occasion of his meeting with bishops for World Youth Day that the ideology of “gender” is a form of “ideological colonization”. Today children – children! – are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her sex. Why are they teaching this? Because … Read more

Petition in Support of the Filial Correction Just Shy of 10,000 Signers!

The official Filial Correction effort is restricted to a moderated list of signatories, including clergy, scholars, and other Catholics of a certain intellectual renown. This is all for the good, because it demonstrates with clarity that serious and credentialed figures are backing this effort. As some of you know, however (I mentioned it briefly in … Read more

The Old Evangelization: 5 Steps to Renew a Parish

Last week I wrote an article criticizing the Protestant character of some “New Evangelization” programs. I gave a few brief suggestions for true Catholic evangelization, and a number of people contacted me subsequently requesting more practical suggestions. In terms of one-on-one evangelization, I’ve written a book on the subject; here I’d like to share a … Read more

Summorum Pontificum Congress Report

Summorum Pontificum: ten years later. The Fifth Colloquium in Rome, which marks the tenth anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio, sustained the importance of an appropriate liturgy to the spiritual aggrandizement of man   Ten years after the promulgation of motu proprio whereby Pope Benedict XVI allowed the Church to celebrate the Mass according … Read more

A Brief Note on The Question of a Legally Valid Papal Election

Image: Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia, The Sistine Chapel (5967688938), CC BY 2.0. Because this comes up on a fairly regular basis, I wanted to just take a brief look at the source of one of the most common claims that Pope Francis was not validly elected, according to the Church’s own rules for conclaves. … Read more

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