The pope has finally accepted the resignation of Bishop Juan Barros, his apointee to run the Diocese of Osorno in Chile, who has been accused for years of being complicit in clerical sexual abuse. But it wasn’t an easy path …
The 2019 Pan-Amazon Synod and the Possibility of Married Priests, Even Female Priests
The Vatican presented something important today, 8 June, at a press conference: the Preparatory Document for the upcoming 2019 Pan-Amazon Synod in which there is now talk about giving women some “type of official ministry” and of making “courageous” and …
1P5 Minute – Archbishop Héctor Aguer
Today we’re trying out a new video format. Called the “1P5 Minute” it’s a short, informative breakdown on a big story we’re currently working on. (Would love for it to be an actual minute, but I just couldn’t cut any …
Respected Predecessor of New La Plata Archbishop “Tucho” Fernández’ Ordered to Depart His Diocese Immediately
It is a story that reads like a passage from The Dictator Pope: Pope Francis recently accepted the age-related resignation of Héctor Aguer, the Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina — the capital city of the Buenos Aires province — and …
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 …
Msgr Livi on Pope Francis, His Promoting of Heretics and of a Lutheran Reform
Monsignor Antonio Livi, a professor of philosophy and former dean at the Lateran University in Rome, has made some incisive and strong statements concerning the papacy of Pope Francis. He claims that this pope was put into his office in …
Abuse Victims Accuse Chilean Member of Pope Francis’ C9 Council
Image: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, CC BY-SA 2.0 Cardinal Francisco Errázuriz, a member of the Council of Nine Cardinals called by Pope Francis to help him with his reform of the Roman Curia, has now been strongly accused by …
As With Amoris Laetitia, Pope Also Declines to Answer Intercommunion Dubia
Image: Copyright EWTN / Paul Badde Yesterday, 3 May, there took place in Rome the much-anticipated meeting between some six German bishops (and their secretary) and four representatives of the Vatican in order to discuss the 20 February German decision to …
On the Rule of Law – and What Likely Happens when It Is Not Present
Many of our readers must be currently in a certain state of mind, namely: attentively watching a little child – who could be yours or mine – struggle for life in front of the eyes of much of the whole …
Celebration of Vatican’s Intercommunion Rejection is Premature
When the story first broke in April that the CDF had, with the pope’s explicit blessing, rejected the German Bishops’ intercommunion handout, people weren’t sure what to think. Nobody had seen the communication, and it was very intentionally kept under …
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