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Does the New CDF Statement on Female Priests Imply an Opening to Female Deacons?

A few days ago, Archbishop Luis Ladaria, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), restated the Church’s infallible teaching about the ordaining of female priests in the Catholic Church. The statement was followed by many speculations. For example, some people ask whether this Ladaria text really corresponds to Pope Francis’…

Pope Francis Tells Cdl. Marx Not to Publish the Intercommunion Handout

On 25 May, Archbishop Luis Ladaria, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), wrote a letter to Cardinal Reinhard Marx and the German bishops. He told the German bishops’ conference not to publish their pastoral handout allowing some Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion under certain conditions. Today,…

Cdl. Woelki in Emotional Speech: Intercommunion Debate is About Life, Death

Last Thursday, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Cardinal Rainer Woelki, one of the seven German bishops who opposed the new German intercommunion handout allowing for some Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion, gave a moving speech at the end of the Procession and Pontifical Mass in his Cathedral of Cologne. In this speech,…

Report from Rome: What Do Vatican Officials Think to Gain in their Agreement with China? (And What Will Chinese Catholics Lose?)

Population Research Institute President and China Expert Steven Mosher went to Rome to warn the Vatican that under the rapidly growing power and religious persecution of the Jinping regime, any agreement between the Vatican and Beijing would be seen by Chinese believers as nothing short of a rank betrayal.

Archbishop Eamon Martin Walks Back Use of Pro-Abortion Rhetoric in Remarks on Irish Vote

The Catholic world is still reeling from Ireland’s precipitous fall into darkness. First, there was the gay “marriage” vote in 2015. Then, there was the election of Ireland’s first homosexual prime minister, Leo Varadkar, in 2017. This month came the overwhelming referendum vote to remove protection of the unborn from the Irish Constitution, at a…

UPDATED | Report: “Married” Bolivian Bishop Will Be Made Cardinal by Pope Francis

In a news report that comes to us from our Spanish-language partners Adelante la Fe, OnePeterFive has learned that Bishop Toribio Ticona — an 81-year-old Bolivian prelate who is alleged to be living with a woman as husband and wife with two children — will be raised to the status of cardinal by Pope Francis.…

Ireland Chooses Death

Editor’s note: it is not our usual policy to print an entire press release in full, but rarely have we seen one so expertly hit the mark. Our thanks to the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts and their executive director C.J. Doyle for this devastating analysis of the Irish vote to legalize abortion. On Friday,…

Memorial Day

It’s Memorial Day here in the United States today, and as is human nature, we use our holidays to get together with family, to cook and enjoy good food and drink, and to treat the day of rest we have been given like another opportunity for a party with the people we love. And there’s…

Vatican Theologian: German Intercommunion Plan is “Unwise” and “Defective”

A German theologian and member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission strongly criticized in a recent interview the German intercommunion handout as it was approved already on 20 February by a majority of the German bishops. He calls this handout “unlawful,” “unwise,” and “defective.” On 25 May, domradio.de, the radio station of the Diocese of…

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