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An Important Clarification on the Proposed French Ambassador to the Vatican

Stories were blowing up the Internet last week saying that France was sending Laurent Stefanini — an “openly gay” ambassador — to the Vatican. More turmoil and surprise when the Vatican refused his appointment. We didn’t cover the story, though we did link to it in this piece. Only something is not right: The first interesting…

Cardinal Brandmüller: Advocates of Changing Church Teaching on Marriage are Heretics

There’s an eye-opening interview at LifeSiteNews with Cardinal Walter Brandmüller — a rare German prelate these days — who makes clear what the stakes are when dealing with those who are advocating a change in Church teaching or practice as regards marriage and the Sixth Commandment: Can the Church deal with the topic of marriage in a pastoral…

What Ten Apostles in Gethsemane Can Teach Us About Our Bishops Today

In his most recent post over at First Things, R.R. Reno discusses the contemporary phenomenon in the Church which he aptly labels “duck and cover” Catholicism. Specifically addressing the firestorm which erupted when Governor Mike Pence of Indiana signed the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), Reno observes: As I expected, the leaders of the…

The Continuing Assault Against Tradition at the Parish Level

Several recent stories have once again highlighted just how much disdain for tradition, and specifically the Latin Mass, still remains in the Church.  Sadly, as many faithful simply seek a more reverent manner in which to worship God in the Holy Mass, they repeatedly encounter clergy who dismiss out of hand the Church’s liturgical patrimony.…

Get Behind Me, Satan!

I’ve already laid out my personal experiences with the death penalty. Then I presented the Church’s long-standing traditional teaching on it. (The comments on that latter piece are almost as informative, in some respects, as my info-dump presentation itself.) But today I caught wind of something that really made me deeply uncomfortable. The Vatican plans…

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