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Dr. E. Christian Brugger is a moral theologian living in Front Royal, Virginia.
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Concerns about Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight: A Reply to Pedro Gabriel

April 2, 2025 Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ, E. Christian Brugger 44

Since the publication of Amoris Laetitia nine years ago, faithful Catholics from all quarters of the Church have expressed concern about the confusion that has followed in the wake of the Exhortation’s eighth chapter (AL8). We share […]

Analysis

The Doctrinal Implications of Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight

March 19, 2025 E. Christian Brugger, Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ 35

Editor’s note: March 19th marks the ninth anniversary of Amoris laetitia (it was released on April 8, 2016), Pope Francis’s post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the pastoral care of families. Since that time, CWR has published […]

Analysis

Dignitas Infinita: Strengths and Ambiguities

April 13, 2024 Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ, E. Christian Brugger 34

The claim implicit in the title of the DDF’s recently published Declaration, Dignitas Infinita (DI), has generated considerable controversy. The matter of infinite dignity Do human beings have infinite dignity? Certainly, those who through baptism receive a share in the […]

Analysis

Cardinal Gerhard Müller exposes a crisis in Church teaching

December 9, 2023 E. Christian Brugger, Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ 65

In July 2023, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) received ten dubia (formal questions) from Cardinal Dominik Duka, Archbishop Emeritus of Prague, on behalf of the Czech Bishops’ Conference, regarding the proper […]

Analysis

An examination of Archbishop Fernández’s erroneous positions on sexual morality

August 3, 2023 E. Christian Brugger 64

Argentine prelate Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect-elect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, should either recant his erroneous positions on sexual morality or resign his post at the DDF. A calm, competent, and clear-eyed […]

Analysis

The Cardinal’s Lament: A Reply to His Reply

March 9, 2023 E. Christian Brugger 80

In his recent response to “critics on sexual sin, the Eucharist, and LGBT and divorced/remarried Catholics” Cardinal Robert W. McElroy defends the morality of some instances of sex between LGBT and divorced and remarried Catholics. […]

Analysis

Pope Francis, contraception, and the problem of ecclesial authority

August 4, 2022 E. Christian Brugger 187

It’s been reported (see here and here) that the recent text from the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL), Etica Teologica della Vita (Theological Ethics of Life, Vatican Publishing, 2022), advocates among other things the disregarding […]

Books

Marengo’s Lament: ‘The Birth of an Encyclical’ unwittingly confirms old truths

July 24, 2018 E. Christian Brugger 12

Pope Paul VI had no doubts about the truth of the doctrinal teaching he set forth in Humanae Vitae, but that he knew given the […]

Opinion

An Open Appeal to the Catholic Bishops of the World

March 19, 2018 E. Christian Brugger 33

Only fraternal episcopal interventions can now hope to avert what is sure otherwise to be a spiritual catastrophe for the Catholic Church. […]

Analysis

The Catholic Conscience, the Argentine Bishops, and “Amoris Laetitia”

September 20, 2016 E. Christian Brugger 2

A group of Argentine bishops (ABs) recently published pastoral guidelines for implementing Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia (AL). The ABs tell their clergy that under certain circumstances divorced Catholics in sexually active second unions may […]

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