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Category: Sacraments
Love, Mercy, Justice: Communion for the Divorced and Remarried
In every age, the Church deals with issues and pastoral situations so murky that a solution to a member’s situation may seem impossible. In the modern age, very few Catholics understand the importance of the Church’s precepts. These precepts bind …
Deaconesses: a Reasoned Approach
While I now try to keep a policy of avoiding every controversy from Rome, the hubbub on “deaconesses” is too great a temptation to resist and provides an opportunity for a solid catechizing moment, speaking as someone who has felt …
Is “Contemporary” Church Music a Good Example of Inculturation?
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 …
Forte: Pope Did Not Want to Speak “Plainly” Of Communion for Remarried
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 …
Wedding Poinsettias: Beauty, Cancer, & The Cross
“Amen, Amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice; and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, …
Why Aren’t Other Dioceses Looking to Lincoln?
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 …
Cardinal Müller: Communion Remains Off-Limits for “Remarried”
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 …
Top Catholic Philosopher: Amoris Laetitia Will “Split the Church”
Today, 28 April, an important exclusive interview with a well-known Catholic philosopher has been published in Germany. The important statements of Professor Robert Spaemann might well indicate that the wind is turning now against the “Francis Revolution”. Spaemann – who is …
We Do Not Need Clarifications. Rescind the Document!
How grateful we are to Bishop Athanasius Schneider for his ongoing Catholic witness and defense of the truth. He has put the finger right into the center of the new wound given to the Church by Amoris Laetitia, namely that …