I’ve often found myself wondering about the bias I see at the Catholic News Service(CNS), which seems to gloss over many of the serious problems in the Church. Today, my friend Michael Hichborn at the Lepanto Institute has a story on CNS Director and Editor in Chief Tony Spence that may help shed some light on…
Faithful Catholics around the world love Cardinal Burke. And in truth, there is and has been much to love. He is a good and holy man who loves Our Lord and His Church. He has, for a very long time, been one of the few voices of doctrinal sanity in a hierarchy gone mostly off the…
On Saturday, 9 April, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller explicitly commented on the pope’s Apostolic Exhortation on the Family and warns against a dilution of the Catholic Church’s teaching. The cardinal spoke to the German tabloid newspaper, Die Bild, as reported by the German Bishops’ website, katholisch.de. While many of the statements that are quoted here…
This morning was my “big moment”. I woke up at 4:50AM and dragged my tired, exhortation-weary self into the shower to get ready to go on national television for the first time. I was invited to go on Fox & Friends — “the most-watched program on cable television between 6am – 9am ET” — to talk…
If the title of this post is all you want to hear about Amoris Laetitia, then kudos to you, because it’s true! He didn’t change doctrine. Never could. Never will. Of course, he absolutely gutted pastoral application and guidance on the doctrine on sin and marriage to the point that he made them both virtually unrecognizable.…
This morning, I noticed that the Drudge Report was leading with this: As I’ve said countless times, the “Magisterium of the Media” trumps the technically true (but pragmatically irrelevant) claim that “the pope hasn’t changed any doctrine.” Nope. He can’t. He won’t. He doesn’t need to. All he needs to do is gut praxis, and…
Pope Francis has just published his long-awaited Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, Amoris Laetitia. In it, he repeats many of the problematic and controversial statements of the previous 2014 and 2015 Synods of Bishops on the Family. Among these, one finds the law of gradualism with regard to sinful relationships, the claim that there are “seeds”…
It’s here: Amoris Laetitia — the new post-synodal apostolic exhortation on marriage and family. We present it, for now, without comment. Download your copy now (PDF Link). This is the version released to journalists. We’ll update this post with a link to where it lives on the Vatican webpage in the event of any further updates (I noticed…
I don’t know the how or the why of it, but Rorate Caeli has published a summary (apparently leaked) of tomorrow’s hotly-anticipated post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia. Even the summary clocks in at nearly 4,000 words, so tomorrow’s full text is going to be, as we all anticipated, a doozy. (Early reports say 260 pages or so – nearly…
At The Wanderer yesterday, Maike Hickson provided a summary translation of recent comments from Cardinal Brandmüller reiterating Church teaching on marriage on the eve of the Synod: “It is the Church’s magisterial teaching (Dogma) that a validly contracted and consummated marriage cannot be dissolved by any power of the world – also not by the…
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, Austria, has been chosen by Pope Francis to present his apostolic exhortation, Amoris Leaetitia, on 8 April. We’ve already explored some of his statements over the past few days, because we believe it may shed light on why he was chosen for this particular task. Of special importance in this regard is…
