An article published on 12 June by kathpress.at — the Catholic news agency partly funded by the Austrian bishops — has received a great deal of attention in Europe. Two Italian websites — La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana and Il Timone — have both reported on it. So has the …
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The Cañizares Case in Spain is a Litmus Test for Pope Francis
As has been recently reported in several media outlets, Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, the Archbishop of Valencia, Spain, is now under harsh attack from feminist, homosexual, and other progressive groups for having defended the traditional family and for accusing the promoters of gender …
Pope Francis: “The Great Majority of Our Sacramental Marriages are Null”
No, that headline is not a repeat. But you’re right if you think it sounds strangely familiar. In May of 2014, Cardinal Walter Kasper reported, in an interview with Commonweal, that Pope Francis had said he believed half of all Catholic marriages …
Fernández: “Give More Power” to Bishops’ Conferences
The story surrounding the somewhat controversial papal advisor and ghostwriter of Amoris Laetitia, Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández, continues. As we had reported, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, in the June 2016 issue of Herder Korrespondenz, recently refuted as being potentially heretical Fernández’ …
Cardinal Müller Rejects Image of Doctrinal “Throwing Stones”
Just a few days ago, OnePeterFive was able to highlight an important allusive statement made by Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, about Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández, whose undifferentiated idea that the pope …
Another Catholic Scholar Raises Objections to Amoris Laetitia
Last Friday, Steve Skojec reported on the eloquent and piercing response written by the German-speaking professor, Josef Seifert, as published by Professor de Mattei’s website Corrispondenza Romana. It seems that more and more conservative Catholics are taking heart and seeing it necessary …
“The Tears of Jesus over Amoris Laetitia”
In April, we reported to you that Robert Spaemann, the most well-known Catholic philosopher in Germany and a close friend of Pope Benedict XVI, said that Amoris Laetitia would have disastrous consequences for Catholicism: The chaos has been turned into a principle – …
CDF Prefect Characterizes Statement Made by Papal Adviser as “Heretical”
Last year in Rome, a controversy emerged concerning some comments made by Cardinal Gerhard Müller about his own role in the Church as the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Müller indicated that it was thus his task …
Pope Meets With Theologian Who Advocates Female Deacons
On 31 May 2015, the official website of the German bishops, katholisch.de, reported an interesting and revealing press event, at which a German theologian and the managing director of the International Diaconate Center (Internationales Diakoniezentrum, Rottenburg, Germany), Dr. Stefan Sander, has …
Pope Francis Praises Amoris Laetitia as Sound Doctrine
While many Catholics in the world were indignant about the remarks of Pope Francis on 16 June regarding the likely invalidity of many Catholic sacramental marriages, he made another important statement on the same day that seems largely to have been …
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