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Articles by George Neumayr
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The Voice of the Faithful
“Catholics” at the American Catholic Council, a gathering of dissenters in Detroit, are engaging in the usual papal bashing . National Catholic Reporter provides a glimpse of some of the rhetoric on tap at that event. Meanwhile, Anglicans […]
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The Uncontested Brave New World
The Brave New World continues apace. According to this story, the Obama administration, via the department of Health and Human Services, has a special program to promote the adoption of children by members of the “LGBT” community. This program […]
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Sister Johnson and Contemporary Theology
Sister Elizabeth Johnson has sent a long letter to the USCCB’s Committee on Doctrine, disputing its claims that her book Quest for the Living God misrepresents Catholic teaching. She in effect says the Committee’s critique rests on […]
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Business As Usual
What is trumpeted by sources in this story as good news sounds like bad news: that religious orders are happy with their relatively new Vatican overseer, Brazilian Archbishop Joao Braz de Avis. The orders, many of which are deeply troubled, seem to […]
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The Cardenal of Liberation Theology
Marxist poet and suspended priest Ernesto Cardenal is a notorious figure of liberation theology. He was famously scolded by Pope John Paul II on the tarmac of Managua airport for defying Church authority. Cardenal had been told not to take […]
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A Time for Clarity
“Here I stand,” said Martin Luther as he challenged teachings of the Catholic Church. “I can do no other.” The Australian Bishop William Morris sounded a similar note as news came in May that the […]
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Pouncing on a Papal Blunder
By its own tardy admission, the Vatican botched the handling of Pope Benedict’s decision to lift the excommunications of four Society of St. Pius X bishops. Vatican officials failed to inform the Pope that one […]
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Ex Corde Ecclesiae and the Notre Dame Affair
Will Notre Dame’s decision to honor the most pro-abortion American president ever occasion a serious and widespread implementation of Ex Corde Ecclesiae? If not, the outrage over it is idle. Pope John Paul II’s apostolic […]
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Two Models of Hope
Last September, Pope Benedict XVI visited the original Grotto in Lourdes where Our Lady appeared to St. Bernadette. During his visit, Pope Benedict spoke about the West’s need to recover the Marianmodel of hope: that […]