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Tension under the Vatican big top

February 18, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 15

It was an operatic week in the Vatican. Well, maybe soap-operatic. The week opened with an Italian animal rights group complaining about the literal circus Cardinal Konrad Krajewski – the papal almoner – put on […]

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Liturgical double standards and the hermeneutic of rupture

February 13, 2023 James Baresel 32

Shortly after Pope Benedict XVI issued Summorum Pontificum in 2007, the then Bishop of Leeds issued an “interpretation” which did its best to reduce the motu proprio to meaninglessness and obstruct its implementation. Examples include: […]

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Opinion: Vatican II, dialogue with the world, and natural law

August 9, 2021 Jack Gist 36

Pope Francis’ recent apostolic letter on the use of the traditional Latin Mass, Traditionis Custodis, presumably written in the spirit of unity, has produced a firestorm of reactions—some positive, some negative, others seeking a middle […]

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