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Why did the Vatican act so quickly on Archbishop Aupetit?

December 2, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 12

Well, the Holy Father turned that one around right quickly. “That” is the resignation of the Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, which the Press Office of the Holy See on Thursday told the world Pope […]

Features

Synods and Sausages: Making a mess in Germany

September 13, 2019 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 45

The so-called synodal assembly being concocted by Catholics in Germany has emerged with a covert agenda so cynical that even its sharpest critics have missed it. This meeting is shaping up to be a debacle […]

Analysis

Analysis: Justice by papal fiat points to serious lack of trust within the Church

October 15, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 39

The Vatican announced on Saturday that Pope Francis has reduced two Chilean bishops to the lay state. One of the defrocked is an 85-year-old man reported now to be suffering senile dementia, Francisco José Cox […]

Features

Bishop Eleganti: “The Pope’s silence is a classic non-denial!”

August 31, 2018 CWR Staff 22

“The attempts to rewrite the traditional doctrine that regards homosexual acts as disordered in themselves,” says the Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Chur, Switzerland, “and […]

Analysis

Synodality vs. Synodality

June 17, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 15

As Pope Francis’ uneven record indicates, collegiality and synodality are great — until one tries to do something with them. […]

The Dispatch

Craving approval isn’t evangelization

June 6, 2018 George Weigel 4

Doesn’t all of the pandering and pathetic grasping for approval by Catholic leaders signal that, hey, we’re not really serious about the stuff you cultural elites […]

Columns

Marx and Progressives: An ironic, exploitative love story

June 4, 2018 James Kalb 9

Current progressivism can plausibly be explained, in part, on Marxist grounds as a class ideology that cloaks exploitation with high-sounding rhetoric. […]

Editorial

Cardinal Marx promotes false news about blessings and “homosexual unions”

February 3, 2018 Carl E. Olson 53

Will Pope Francis correct the German Cardinal, who has stated that Catholic priests can conduct blessing ceremonies for homosexual couples and says “we have no […]

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