In Querida Amazonia, Pope Frances noted that fifty years had passed since the Second Vatican Council had called for an effort to be made “to inculturate [sic] the liturgy among indigenous peoples”.1 He comments that “we […]
Who steals my purse steals trash ’tis something, nothing; ‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands, But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, […]
An ambiguous attitude to “human sexuality” on the part of “mainstream” moral theology led in time to bishops effectively turning a blind eye to sinful […]
Archbishop Fernández’s essay on the controversial eighth chapter of Amoris Laetitia attempted to dispel doubts about that papal document’s orthodoxy but has only raised more […]
Can the apostolic exhortation help bridge the chasm that, since 1968, has divided moral theologians in matters of sexual morality? […]
Something quite remarkable—indeed historic—happened in Salzburg, Austria, on September 6th last. The occasion was an ecumenical Congress organized by the [Protestant] International Christian Network (Internationale Konferenz Bekennender Gemeinschaften). What made the event so notable was […]
The Czech intellectual and scholar, Professor Tomas Halik, winner of the Tempelton Prize (2014), was guest speaker at this year’s annual meeting of Ratzinger’s former doctoral and post-doctoral students, held August 27-30. (The meeting has […]
When asked about the Synod’s hot-button issues in a TV interview conducted on March 6 last and broadcast on the Mexican Televista on the 12th of March, Pope Francis responded with the statement: “I believe […]
Last Saturday, the synod closed with the voting on the final report and with a final address by the Pope, which was greeted with a prolonged standing ovation. The week of high drama ended with […]
This Synod is extraordinary in more ways than one. It is extra-ordinary in the simple sense of being merely preparatory to the actual or ordinary Synod that will take place in twelve months’ time. But […]
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