Why Boris Got Married in a Catholic Church
by Ed CondonOn May 29, Boris Johnson married Carrie Symonds in London's Westminster Cathedral. Continue Reading »
On May 29, Boris Johnson married Carrie Symonds in London's Westminster Cathedral. Continue Reading »
Bishops should consider implementing a system of simple, voluntary, low-stakes ecclesiastical verification for Catholics who publish online. Continue Reading »
The news that a Catholic parish in Virginia planned to host the consecration of an Episcopalian bishop—a woman—sparked backlash. Continue Reading »
The logic of liberalism has seeped into the faithful’s understanding of God and his Church through every imaginable pore. Continue Reading »
When a pastor in South Carolina withheld Holy Communion from Joseph Biden, a chorus of condemnations quickly followed. Continue Reading »
Kidnapped by the Vatican? The Unpublished Memoirs of Edgardo Mortaraby vittorio messoriignatius, 190 pages, $17.95 At nightfall on Wednesday, June 23, 1858, a knock came on the door of Salomone and Marianna Mortara, Jewish residents of Bologna. Only the wife was at home with the children. It . . . . Continue Reading »
The norms for abstention on St. Patrick’s Day provide an important insight into the ongoing divide over Amoris Laetitia. Continue Reading »
The Church affirms that human beings are by nature suited to contract marriage, and she teaches that Christian couples can call upon the graces of the sacrament of Matrimony in living out the marriages they contract. Against such an ancient and affirming tradition, Francis’s assertion that “the great majority of our sacramental marriages are null” shocked both common sense and Catholic sensibility. Continue Reading »
I recently attended a conference in Rome, “La riforma operata dal m.p. ‘Mitis Iudex,’”sponsored by the Consociatio Internationalis Studio Iuris Canonici Promovendo—the international association of canon lawyers of which I am a board member—which dealt with the fiercely relevant topic of . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ll leave it to others more knowledgeable than I to assess the changes Pope Francis announced this morning with respect to the procedure for granting annulments. To an outsider, the changes certainly seem sweeping. Francis has eliminated the requirement that two tribunals agree to grant an . . . . Continue Reading »