Several outlets are reporting today that Pope Francis will not be re-appointing Cardinal Gerhard Müller as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith when the cardinal’s five-year term is up on July […]
An April 25th message, written by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra on behalf of Cardinals Walter Brandmüller, Raymond L. Burke, and Joachim Meisner, was delivered to Pope Francis on May 6th; it reiterated the four men’s desire […]
Last fall, four Cardinals submitted to Pope Francis their dubia on the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. This past month, six lay scholars from five continents joined the debate one year after the publication of […]
Archbishop Robert Carlson, 72, has served as Archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri, since 2009. He is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in 1970. He […]
Fr. James Keenan writing in Crux this week makes his own a question raised (last July, it seems) by Rocco Buttiglione in L’Osservatore Romano: “Is there any contradiction between the popes who excommunicated divorced and remarried persons and Saint John […]
Recent remarks by Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga have been making some waves, and for good reason—even though there isn’t much good or reasonable about them. Interviewed on March 25th by RSI—a Swiss public broadcasting organization broadcasting […]
I am tempted to address at length Austen Ivereigh’s commentary on Fr. Raymond de Souza’s observations on Cdl. Wuerl’s statement on Francis’ document Amoris laetitia, but at a certain point the law of diminishing returns sets in leaving such an exercise tedious. So let […]
The Catholic Herald has published an essay I wrote about the ongoing controversy and confusion surrounding of implementation of AL8 (that’s Chapter Eight of Amoris Laetitia for those who don’t always swim in these turbulent […]
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!” — “Jabberwocky,” by Lewis Carroll Pope Francis, right at the start of Amoris […]
The debates over admission of divorced-and-remarried Catholics to holy Communion in the wake of Amoris have focused almost exclusively on what is just one canonical problem: the public reception of holy Communion by public sinners. But there are other, canonically distinct, […]
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