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The New Ultramontanism and the Dissing of Vatican II

March 8, 2023 George Weigel 61

In its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), the Second Vatican Council firmly applied the brakes to “ultramontanism” — the overheated theory of papal supremacy that reduced local bishops to branch managers who simply […]

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From what, precisely, are Amoris Laetitia “dissenters” dissenting?

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If even Pope Francis could be unsure about the orthodoxy of his controversial post-Synodal Exhortation, surely the faithful will be allowed to have perplexities of […]

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