On this episode of the podcast, Steve and Tim Gordon of Rules for Retrogrades break down the initial reactions to Querida Amazonia, the just-released post-synodal apostolic exhortation from the Amazon synod. If you enjoy this show, please remember to subscribe …
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Stopping the Heartbeat of the Church
Editor’s note: The following article comes to 1P5 from a Carmelite nun who fears for her order. For centuries, contemplative religious have been recognized as the “heartbeat of the Church.” Indeed, even the 2018 Vatican document “Cor Orans” calls contemplative …
Leaked Draft of Amazon Exhortation Strikes Blow Against Clerical Celibacy
According to a new report at Corrisepondenza Romana, the Catholic news agency run by the eminent Church historian & author Professor Roberto de Mattei, the post synodal apostolic exhortation on the Amazon Synod, which is expected to be promulgated very …
Fr. Jan Kobylowicz: Living Martyr of the Confessional Seal
The sacrament of Confession has been under attack in Australia since the conclusion of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in December of 2017. Several states have now passed legislation that requires Catholic priests to violate …
The Top Five Church News Stories We’re Watching In 2020
2020 has certainly not gotten off to a slow start. The “Bookgate” controversy (every bureaucratic debacle has to have a “gate” at the end, obviously) has been really remarkable. It’s really not possible to say it’s over yet, or what …
Bishop Guo Evicted, Homeless after Refusing to Join Vatican-Approved Chinese Patriotic Church
In 2017, Bishop Guo Xijin of Mindong in China’s Fujian province disappeared. At that time, he was pressured to sign a document stating his willingness to “voluntarily” be demoted to coadjutor bishop as a condition that he be recognized by the …
Archbishop Viganò Accuses Archbishop Gänswein of Abusive and Systematic Control of Benedict XVI
As the controversy surrounding the former pope’s contribution to a new book about clerical celibacy has shifted, in part, to the role of the personal secretary of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and prefect of the papal household, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, …
Claims Pope Emeritus Didn’t Co-Author New Book on Celibacy Escalate Controversy
The controversy over the new book on priestly celibacy by Cardinal Robert Sarah and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has only continued to escalate over the past 48 hours. News of the book broke on Sunday, and by Monday afternoon, rumors …
“A Strange Media Synod”: Is This Phrase an Interpretative Key to New Benedict Text?
It has been less than 24 hours since the news broke about the book arguing in favor of priestly celibacy co-authored by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah, and it seems to be the thing everyone is talking …
Querida Amazonia: What Does It Say about Priestly Celibacy?
Let’s put the thing everyone wants to know right out in front: no, the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia does not, within its text, explicitly provide for the ordination of “viri probati” — married men, likely married permanent deacons — to …
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