At The Wanderer yesterday, Maike Hickson provided a summary translation of recent comments from Cardinal Brandmüller reiterating Church teaching on marriage on the eve of the Synod: “It is the Church’s magisterial teaching (Dogma) that a validly contracted and consummated marriage cannot be dissolved by any power of the world – also not by the…
The Italian journalist Marco Tosatti just published on 4 April an article on his blog in which he reports on Cardinal Robert Sarah’s strong words about gender theory. At a recent presentation of his own book, God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah said as follows: “The gender theory, the marriage between persons of the same sex, and…
I hesitate to wade into the fever swamp that has arisen over the past few days over the question of whether women who have abortions should face prosecution. (A question that is, as a friend suggested to me earlier this morning, the “ultimate gotcha question” for abortion advocates to pose to politicians running on a…
I hate to be the kind of guy who spoils the plot to a good story, but the headline is true. Cardinal Walter Kasper, at the end of the interminable arc through which his earthly existence is at this very moment winding, will have a day where he does not wake up. Death comes for…
Giuseppe Nardi, a well-informed Rome expert, reports on the German website Katholisches.info that all bishops have now received a letter from Rome, instructing them that they should prepare the faithful around the world for the upcoming Apostolic Exhortation. As Nardi writes: As reported by La Croix, the daily newspaper of the French Bishops’ Conference, the electronic…
While the names of the academics presenting the Apostolic Exhortation on Friday are unknowns to me, the two prelates who will be co-presenting are not. At Crux, John Allen notes that the first of the two — Cardinal Christoph Schönborn — has been associated with some very avant-garde positions on traditional marriage, family, and sexuality issues: …
In a briefing in Rome this morning, Father Frederico Lombardi of the Holy See Press Office announced that Pope Francis’ long-anticipated post-synodal apostolic exhortation — titled, ‘Amoris laetitia‘ (The Joy of Love: On Love in the Family) — will be released on Friday, April 8. The event will begin with a press conference to present the exhortation…
After 30 years and millions of dollars of restoration, 1500-year-old Santa Maria Antiqua, buried beneath the Roman Forum by an earthquake in 847, has finally reopened to the public, and it is stunning: “This church is the Sistine Chapel of the early Middle Ages,” Maria Andaloro, an art historian involved in the project, told Reuters. “It…
Yesterday, I wrote a tribute to Mother Angelica, a woman whose life and work was defined by her willingness to say what God wants us to hear, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us. In fact, as she herself once said, “Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to…
Earlier this week, I told you that one of our contributors, Dr. Brian Kopp, had suffered a debilitating stroke and was being taken to Pittsburgh for surgery. Today, I got an update from his daughter, Marie, who tells me that the doctors are going to put a stent into the blocked artery in his brain some…
Dr. Brian Kopp is a contributor here at 1P5, the Chairman of the Pro-Life Healthcare Alliance (among other incredible work), and a man I’ve known in the online Catholic world for many years. He is also a husband and father. Today, he is in serious need of your prayers. He recently told me that his health…
