The Case for Yellow Checks
by Gladden J. Pappin and Gregory CaridiBishops should consider implementing a system of simple, voluntary, low-stakes ecclesiastical verification for Catholics who publish online. Continue Reading »
Canon Law and Catholic Common Sense
by Edward PetersThe news that a Catholic parish in Virginia planned to host the consecration of an Episcopalian bishop—a woman—sparked backlash. Continue Reading »
Infant Baptism and the Logic of Liberalism
by Brandon McGinleyThe logic of liberalism has seeped into the faithful’s understanding of God and his Church through every imaginable pore. Continue Reading »
Why Biden Was Denied Communion
by Edward PetersWhen a pastor in South Carolina withheld Holy Communion from Joseph Biden, a chorus of condemnations quickly followed. Continue Reading »
Non Possumus
by Romanus Cessario, O.P.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 The Unpublished Memoirs of Edgardo Mortaraby vittorio messoriignatius, 190 pages, $17.95 At nightfall on Wednesday, June 23, 1858, a knock came on the door of Salomone and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 »
No Authority Over Divine Law
by J. D. FlynnThe norms for abstention on St. Patrick’s Day provide an important insight into the ongoing divide over Amoris Laetitia. Continue Reading »
What Francis Forgets About Marriage
by Edward PetersThe 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 »
New Norms for Marriage Nullity
by Kurt MartensI 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 »
Won't Somebody Please Think of the Lawyers?
by Mark MovsesianI’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 »
Marriage Pledge is Not an Imperative of Conscience
by R. R. RenoLast week, I wrote in favor of the Marriage Pledge and suggested that signing a government-provided document designating Spouse A and Spouse B is contrary to conscience. Ed Peters has rightly criticized me. There is nothing intrinsically evil about politically correct euphemisms in government documents, including ones pertaining to marriage. And thus there’s no complicity with evil when a pastor, priest, or laymen sign such documents. Continue Reading »
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