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Archbishop Viganò on Pope’s Support of Homosexual Unions: Francis is Trying to Provoke a Schism

DECLARATION of His Excellency Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò about the documentary film Francesco Rome, October 21st, 2020 – The Vatican News website[1] has reported the news that today at the Rome Film Festival a documentary film will be screened called Francesco made by director Evgeny Afineevsky. This documentary – according to what has been reported … Read more

Two Fingers to Death: On Siberia, Sedes, and Schism

“I follow no leader but Christ and join in communion with none but your blessedness [Pope Damasus I], that is, with the chair of Peter. I know that this is the rock on which the Church has been built. Whoever eats the Lamb outside this house is profane. Anyone who is not in the ark … Read more

What Does the Methodist Schism Foretell for Catholics?

On Friday, January 3, leaders of the second largest Protestant affiliation in the United States, the United Methodist Church, announced that, due to irreconcilable differences in moral theology, the competing orthodox and progressive camps within the group were going to formally split. This was not a surprise. The divide had been foretold by a General … Read more

‘Competing Visions’ of How to Be Catholic? Or Just Schism?

We heard recently from two disparate Catholic authors who surprisingly agree about the current condition of the Catholic Church. One of the authors is Ross Douthat, self-described conservative Catholic and author of To Change the Church (subtitled “Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism”), a recent book that explores “what exactly constitutes the Catholic core.” … Read more

Archbold on “Actuating the Schism”

At his longtime blog, Creative Minority Report, 1P5 and Remnant contributor Patrick Archbold has a five-part series about “actuating” the schism in the Church. Some of you are going to want to read the whole thing, but I’d like to offer a Cliff’s Notes version here by way of introduction. In the first installment, Archbold … Read more

The Growing German Schism: Warnings, Personal Attacks, and a “Liturgical Dance”

Image: Screenshot, ARD (German Broadcaster) As we reported a few days ago, it seems that the progressivist German bishops under the leadership of Cardinal Reinhard Marx – who are facing resistance from seven fellow bishops concerning their new intercommunion handout – are leaning now toward a decentralized solution to the conflict whereby each bishop would … Read more

Cardinals Burke and Brandmüller on Schism, Papal Authority, and the Sensus Fidei

At today’s conference in Rome on the state of the Catholic Church – “Catholic Church, where are you going?” – Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, one of the four dubia cardinals, made some stunning remarks about his cherished dubia colleague, Cardinal Joachim Meisner who died last summer. Burke now reveals that, after listening to Cardinal Walter Kasper’s … Read more

Prominent Spanish Priest Addresses Church Crisis, Speaks about Schism

Just after the recent renewed polite criticism of Pope Francis by Father Thomas G. Weinandy, the well-respected U.S. theologian, there comes to us another priestly voice of resistance, this time coming out of Spain. For some weeks now, Father Santiago Martin – the founder of the international association Franciscans of Mary with 10,000 members world-wide … Read more

A Surprising German Editorial: A De Facto Schism in the Church

Out of Germany there now come to us some newly unexpected and surprisingly strong words. For, the candid source is that same national Catholic newspaper, Die Tagespost, and that same Rome Correspondent – Guido Horst himself – whom we had just a few days ago politely criticized for his claim that the debate about Amoris … Read more

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