Death Penalty Sad to say, but as surely as night follows day, when Pope Francis speaks on doctrinal matters, confusion results. And so it is with the pope’s August revision to section 2267 of the Catechism. Although taught by the Church for two millennia as a legitimate punishment for . . . . Continue Reading »
Stephen Walford's Pope Francis, the Family and Divorce: In Defense of Truth and Mercy experiments with the idea that it is excessive to ask divorced-and-remarried couples to choose between receiving the Eucharist and having sex. Continue Reading »
By canonizing John XXIII, John Paul II, and Paul VI, Pope Francis is embracing Vatican II and the changes it wrought. Continue Reading »
Theodore McCarrick has been stripped of his status as cardinal for pursuing young men throughout his clerical career. “Uncle Ted” liked to take his “nephews” to bed with him. The public revelations of this fact evoked outrage. It was not so much that a churchman sinned as that he did so . . . . Continue Reading »
Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has announced to the bishops Pope Francis’s approval of new material addressing capital punishment in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (number 2267). The inserted passage notes “an . . . . Continue Reading »
When you read the pope’s response in light of what has happened—or not happened—in the several days since, it acquires an ominous tenor. Continue Reading »
The question prompted by Viganò’s account of his personal interactions with Francis, must be answered. Continue Reading »
Viganò's letter implicates Pope Francis in the very behavior he denounced while in Ireland. Continue Reading »
One does not need to support capital punishment to worry that Pope Francis may have gone too far. Continue Reading »
The shenanigans of Cardinal Marx and Cardinal Ravasi suggest that Catholic Lite has decomposed into Catholic weightlessness. Continue Reading »
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