The Most Authentically Catholic Analysis of the Synod…
…comes to us from Bishop Fellay of the SSPX. You know, those guys. The ones who sit aloof in the corner while the cool kids at the dance dish fantastic gossip about. “Did you hear that they’re, like, in schism? Whatever that means!” “They had a really bad breakup with the pope in the 1970s. Totes not even…
Steve Skojec, Fr. James Martin, Fr. Thomas Rausch, and a Crux Reporter Walk Into a Bar
OK, not really. But we did all participate in a panel discussion on the Synod which aired on public radio today. I was a guest on the Public Radio Internation program, To The Point. Host Warren Olney led us through a number of questions about the just-concluded Ordinary Synod of the Family in Rome. As you might…
Bergoglianism is the new Origenism…
The impact of Origen, as a catechist and biblical commentator, rocked the Church for at least three centuries, causing strife over a host of doctrinal and pastoral issues. Many of his views were condemned by the Church at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553. Much of the problem was that, because Origen had written so much,…
Steve Skojec Talks Synod on HuffPo Live, Public Radio
This morning I was invited to be a guest on HuffPo Live, to do some Synod analysis. Here’s the relevant segment: (Original Source: HuffPo Live.) This afternoon, I’ll also be a panelist on the Public Radio International program, To the Point. Other guests will be Fr. James Martin, publisher of America Magazine; Fr. Thomas Rausch from Loyola…
Pope Francis and the Papal Pyramid: Looking Through the Wrong End of the Telescope
“When the Divine founder decreed that the Church should be one in faith, in government, and in communion, He chose Peter and his successors as the principle and centre, as it were, of this unity.” — Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum §15 (1896) “[I]t is neither wise nor laudable to reduce everything to antiquity by…
Fr. Hunwicke: “Ultraultraultramontanist Ultraultraultrapapalists Again”
There’s some fantastic commentary in the Catholic blogosphere today, and as I come across new gems I’ll be excerpting and/or sharing it here. I submit to you Fr. Hunwicke’s excellent assessment of the curiously specific Mottramism happening in a way that strains credulity: Some Cardinal called Wuerl has said “There are always people who are unhappy…
Catharsis
Let’s face it: even the people (like us) who can’t stop talking about the Synod would love to stop talking about the Synod. It’s hair-pulling, face-palming, day-drinking kind of stuff. Everyone deals with that differently. Today, Amy Welborn deals with it Breaking Bad style. It is to laugh.
If the Synod Fathers Stay Faithful, will Their Votes be Counted?
Rorate Caeli published an urgent report (as of this morning) on the opposition of Synod fathers to communion for the divorced and remarried: Urgent news from inside the Synod hall today: URGENT ++ OVERWHELMING majority against communion to “remarried divorcees, according to #Synod sources++ https://t.co/RHlM10cUOK — Rorate Caeli (@RorateCaeli) October 20, 2015 The news source is…
Cardinal Pell Responds to #SynodWalkout Petition
From John Allen at Crux: Despite an online petition calling on prelates “faithful to Christ’s teaching” to abandon the 2015 Synod of Bishops on the family, due to perceptions of a “pre-determined outcome that is anything but orthodox,” one of the summit’s most outspoken conservatives says “there’s no ground for anyone to walk out on…
BREAKING: Archbishop Cupich Attempting to Facilitate Sacrilegious Communion
LifeSiteNews is running a breaking story right now, the headline of which almost gets it right: BREAKING: Archbishop Cupich lays out pathway for gay couples to receive Communion at Vatican press scrum We must call it what it is. What Archbishop Cupich is advocating for — most likely feeling empowered by what’s happening at the Synod…