[UPDATE: The Vatican has responded to this story with a direct denial attributed to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI himself. You may read their statement and our response to it here.] Today, on the Feast of Pentecost, I called Fr. Ingo Dollinger, a German priest and former professor of theology in Brasil, who is now quite…
Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the former head of the German Bishops’ Conference and a famous “neo-Modernist Dissenter” turns 80 years old this month, and has thus submitted his final resignation from his office as the bishop of Mainz. In the course of this transition into retirement, Cardinal Lehmann has given several candid, and sometimes casual, interviews…
Introductory commentary by Fr. Brian W. Harrison, O.S. Owing to a lack of clarity and specificity in Chapter 8 of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia (AL), mutually contradictory views are circulating as to what it means for Catholics living publicly in objectively sinful relationships. Has the present Holy Father broken with his predecessors, who…
Ever since last Saturday night, when my translation of portions of a very important 4 May speech made by Cardinal Gerhard Müller in Oviedo, Spain, was published here at OnePeterFive, I have been expectantly and eagerly waiting for a proportionate response from the media to this statement by the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine…
(Editor’s note: this is Part II of a three-part essay. You can read Part I here and Part III here.) Part II In search of the foot soldiers of the Alta Vendita, we arrive at our second point and the work of His Excellency Rudolph Graber, the late Bishop of Regensburg. Appointed to his See in…
In our year-long course on music at Wyoming Catholic College, students read and discuss a chapter from Joseph Ratzinger’s book A New Song for the Lord, “The Image of the World and of Human Beings in the Liturgy and Its Expression in Church Music,” one of the best things ever written about church music. Ratzinger masterfully…
(Editor’s note: this is Part I of a three-part essay. You can read Part II here and Part III here.) Part I In order that the Christian people may more certainly derive an abundance of graces from the sacred liturgy, holy Mother Church desires to undertake with great care a general restoration of the liturgy…
At a meeting to discuss the apostolic exhoration Amoris Laetitia, Archbishop Bruno Forte revealed new insights into the mind of Pope Francis on one of the most controversial issues facing the Church: communion for the divorced and “remarried.” Forte was the man personally chosen by Pope Francis as the Special Secretary for the synods on marriage…
So often these days we read of the ongoing collapse of Catholicism in the west. In diocese after diocese we see parishes and schools closing or consolidating, a decline in priests as older clergy pass away at rates higher than new ordinations, and a widespread loss of the next generation to either the secular left…
News is now spreading about Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s varied remarks on marriage, as well as on the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia itself, during his trip to Spain at the beginning of May. As the Spanish website Infocatolica.com now reports, Cardinal Müller spoke at a presentation of his new book on hope at the Francisco de Vitoria University…
Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, a retired member of the Curia, had been the only cardinal so far to make a stronger comment on the content of Amoris Laetitia, and he did so only a few days before the exhortation’s official release. As we earlier reported, his same statement was also published on 9 April, one day after the…
