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Chapp's Schtick

The false binary between progressive accommodators and “rad trad” restorationists

June 21, 2022 Larry Chapp 90

Much ink has been spilled on the recent comments by the Holy Father concerning his assertion that the Second Vatican Council has been “gagged” by “restorationists”. Pope Francis specifically mentioned the United States as home […]

The Dispatch

Opinion: Pope Francis flounders on the Ukrainian front

June 19, 2022 Christopher R. Altieri 50

It’s tough to say how bad things are for Pope Francis, vis á vis Ukraine, but things are bad. Just this week, the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, remarked to […]

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Benedict XVI was ‘a prophet’ of Church’s future, Pope Francis tells Malta’s Jesuits

April 14, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis with Pope emeritus Benedict XVI at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in Vatican City on June 30, 2015. / Vatican Media.

Vatican City, Apr 14, 2022 / 04:30 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has described Benedict XVI as “a prophet” for predicting … […]

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Italian Catholic doctors: Assisted suicide is not a dignified death

January 19, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

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Rome, Italy, Jan 19, 2022 / 18:10 pm (CNA).
As the Italian parliament debates whether to pass a bill to decriminalize assisted suicide, an association of Catholic doctors has emphasized that a dignified death “can… […]

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Jesuit journal criticized for article supporting assisted suicide bill in Italy

January 17, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

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Rome, Italy, Jan 17, 2022 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
Almost 60 organizations have criticized an article supporting the passing of an Italian bill to legalize assisted suicide, which was published last week in the Catholic, Jesu… […]

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Vatican astronomer: ‘Trust the science’ does not convince those who most need to be convinced

January 14, 2022 Catholic News Agency 6

Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J., pictured on March 3, 2012. / Peter Zelasko/CNA.

Rome, Italy, Jan 14, 2022 / 11:30 am (CNA).
A Vatican astronomer has said that the mantra “trust the science” is failing to “convince those who most need to be convi… […]

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Pope Francis to Slovakian Jesuits: ‘Some people wanted me to die’ amid health problems

September 21, 2021 Catholic News Agency 4

Pope Francis addresses an ecumenical meeting at the apostolic nunciature in Bratislava, Slovakia, Sept. 12, 2021. / Vatican Media.

Vatican City, Sep 21, 2021 / 05:20 am (CNA).
In a private meeting with Jesuits in Slovakia on Sept. 12, Pope Franc… […]

Features

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

January 5, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 46

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 […]

Analysis

Pope Francis’ “open and incomplete” leadership and the puzzling “reform” of the Curia

December 19, 2017 Christopher R. Altieri 22

Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, the Editor-in-Chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, says the Holy Father’s leadership “is based on the success-error dynamic,” which inevitably “destabilizes whoever […]

Features

Why Fr. Spadaro owes an apology to half of all American Christians

August 27, 2017 Thomas R. Ascik 22

Antonio Spadaro, S.J., has pioneered a new kind of ecumenism: denouncing the content and quality of other Christians’ faith and slamming the Church doors in […]

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