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Why Catholic doctrine on sexual morality cannot change

November 22, 2025 Richard A. Spinello 57

Can the Catholic Church change her mind and teachings about sexual morality? Is it finally time to listen to progressives and abolish the ascetic elements of Christian morality, bringing Catholicism in line with the rest […]

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Ryan Anderson: The pro-life movement needs to shift to promoting chastity and marriage

September 13, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 13, 2024 / 08:51 am (CNA).
For the pro-life movement to achieve its goal of eliminating abortion, it must first help bring about a dramatic change in societal… […]

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Rejected dean: Vatican veto questions synodality

July 3, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

Father Martin Lintner, OSM, teaches at the Philosophical-Theological College in Brixen (PTH Brixen). / Screenshot of Cultural Center Gustav Mahler & Guesthouse YouTube video

CNA Newsroom, Jul 3, 2023 / 09:27 am (CNA).
The professor of moral… […]

Analysis

Disconcerting quotations from Bishop Heiner Wilmer

March 21, 2023 George Weigel 51

Shortly before Christmas 2022, it seemed likely that Dr. Heiner Wilmer, SCJ, bishop of Hildesheim and a prominent proponent of the German “Synodal Way,” would be named prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of […]

Analysis

The Cardinal’s Lament: A Reply to His Reply

March 9, 2023 E. Christian Brugger 80

In his recent response to “critics on sexual sin, the Eucharist, and LGBT and divorced/remarried Catholics” Cardinal Robert W. McElroy defends the morality of some instances of sex between LGBT and divorced and remarried Catholics. […]

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Cardinal Cupich and the Hermeneutics of the Abyss

February 21, 2023 Larry Chapp 41

Cardinal Blase Cupich, not to be outdone (and outshone) by his confrere Cardinal McElroy, has recently penned a short essay criticizing “exclusion”. It asserts that the theology of the now conveniently deceased Pope Benedict XVI […]

Essay

A better way forward: A response to Cardinal Robert McElroy

February 20, 2023 Bishop Thomas John Paprocki 23

Much ink has been spilled about Cardinal Robert McElroy’s January 24th piece in America on synodality and inclusion. Less attention has been paid to Cardinal McElroy’s follow up interview (Feb 3, 2023), also in America, […]

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Archbishop Naumann responds to Bishop McElroy: ‘Radical inclusion’ can’t supersede Catholic doctrine

February 14, 2023 Catholic News Agency 5

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas. / Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.

Kansas City, Kan., Feb 14, 2023 / 05:08 am (CNA).
Editor’s note: Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, wrote the following commentary … […]

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German bishops’ president responds to letter warning of schism risk in synodal path

April 16, 2022 Catholic News Agency 4

Bishop Georg Bätzing at the German bishops’ spring meeting in February 2021. Credit: Sascha Steinbach/epa pool.

Limburg, Germany, Apr 16, 2022 / 12:40 pm (CNA).
Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, president of the German bishops’ conference, respo… […]

The Dispatch

BREAKING: Bishops sign letter warning that Germany’s ‘Synodal Path’ could lead to schism

April 12, 2022 Catholic News Agency 20

‘Synodal Way’ flags fly in front of the Congress Center Messe Frankfurt in Germany. / Max von Lachner/Synodal Way.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 12, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA).
More than 70 bishops from around the world have released a “fraternal o… […]

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