A Year of Bumps in the Road for Pope Francis
by Raymond J. de SouzaPope Francis has had a myriad of challenges in the eleventh year of his pontificate. Continue Reading »
Pope Francis has had a myriad of challenges in the eleventh year of his pontificate. Continue Reading »
Pope Francis's favorite theologian, St. Vincent of Lérins, would have recognized that no one in the Church is “master” of divine revelation. Continue Reading »
“The Vatican Tomorrow” outlines what the focus of the next pope ought to be in order to strengthen the Church and make up for the damages done by the current pontificate. Continue Reading »
The refusal to accept Fiducia Supplicans is based on serious concerns and does not imply any lack of respect for the Holy Father. Continue Reading »
With one minor exception, the Vatican's press release only accentuates aspects of Fiducia Supplicans that make it an obstacle to handing on, defending, and living by the gospel’s teaching on sexual morality. Continue Reading »
Fiducia Supplicans is being presented as a genuine development in pastoral practice, yet same-sex blessings do “not validate or justify anything” according to Cardinal Fernández. Continue Reading »
The shenanigans of the pope will put pressure on Protestants as well as Catholics. Continue Reading »
Fiducia Supplicans doesn't change Church teaching on marriage, but it does seem to change Church teaching on the sinfulness of same-sex activity. Continue Reading »
Pope Francis is still the Vicar of Christ—even if he appears to have collapsed in on himself. Continue Reading »
Fides et Ratio intends to show that the historical and socio-cultural conditioning that attends all thinking cannot and does not obviate the objectivity and universality of truth. But one must strain hard to see any sense of this in Pope Francis’s new document. Continue Reading »