Tag Archives: dubia

Here’s an idea to bring about healing and peace: Let the “Dubia Cardinals” re-submit the 2016 Dubia (Amoris) and 2023 Dubia (Synodality)

Posted on 9 May 2025 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

One of the thing that a new Pope has to do, is tie up the loose ends left by his predecessor. There are no ends looser that one can imagine that the DUBIA about Amoris laetitia submitted in 2016 to … Read More →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Leo XIV, POPES, The future and our choices | Tagged dubia, Leo XIV
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Public service announcement: Card. Müller’s responses to dubia

Posted on 10 November 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

UPDATE: On a related note, at One Peter Five find the transcript and video of Card. Sarah’s recent talk at the presentation (HERE) of Bp. Schneider’s catechetical Compendium. Card. Sarah’s talk dealt with the crisis in the Church. He has … Read More →

Posted in Pò sì jiù, Sin That Cries To Heaven, What are they REALLY saying? | Tagged dubia, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, transgender
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New “DUBIA” Submitted to Francis about the Synodality (“walking togetherity”), same-sex blessings, ordination of women, shifting doctrine

Posted on 2 October 2023 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

UPDATE: See below…. New “dubia”, technical questions, have been submitted to Francis by FIVE cardinals, two of them the previous “Dubia Brothers”. Cardinal Burke’s site: HERE I predicted this last August. I was also sure about four of the signatories, … Read More →

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | Tagged dubia
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Chinese Joseph Card. Zen’s Open Letter to all the other Cardinals

Posted on 9 January 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The great Chinese prelate Joseph Card. Zen has sent a letter to all of the members of the College of Cardinals. HERE It includes Dubia of the cardinal regarding “Pastoral guidelines of the Holy See concerning the civil registration of … Read More →

Posted in Modern Martyrs, The Coming Storm, The Drill | Tagged Card. Zen, dubia
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Wherein Fr. Z offers a cautionary tale to those who struggle with liturgical conundra.

Posted on 28 November 2018 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The site of the CMAA, Musica Sacra Forum, published response to the 29 – yes, twenty-nine – dubia submitted to the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”. The questioner is a Polish priest, I assume young, working on a doctorate. Folks, I get it. … Read More →

Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Si vis pacem para bellum! | Tagged dubia, PCED, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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Possible “formal correction” of Pope Francis?

Posted on 16 August 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

If you read the LifeSite account, you have the impression that Card. Burke may be going for the “formal correction” option. HERE They seemed to have based their piece on Part 2 of an interview with His Eminence which The Wanderer posted. … Read More →

Posted in The Drill | Tagged Amoris Laetitia, dubia, Raymond Card. Burke, The Wanderer
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Answers to “Dubia” from the Vatican! About the Traditional Mass and overly restrictive bishops.

Posted on 17 February 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

If you are a priest who has been hassled by your bishop about saying the traditional Mass with the 1962 Missale Romanum, pay attention. Help has arrived. Recently a priest of my acquaintance sent two questions to my old haunts the … Read More →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, 1983 CIC can. 915, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Si vis pacem para bellum!, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM | Tagged can. 249, coetus, coetus fidelium, dubia, idoneus, PCED, Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei", SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Universae Ecclesiae
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Bp. Schneider: attacks on Four Cardinals, Five Dubia like time of Soviet Union

Posted on 6 December 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At LifeSite we read interesting remarks by Bp. Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan. Bp. Schneider made an interesting comparison. about a conference held in Rome. Present were the two of the Four Cardinals (Burke, Brandmüller) who submitted the Five Dubia and … Read More →

Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices | Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Bp. Athanasius Schneider, dubia, Five Dubia, Four Cardinals
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CRUX: An exercise in contrasts concerning ‘Amoris laetitia’

Posted on 5 December 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At Crux there were a pair of pieces which were in sharp contrast. First, take note of Austen Ivereigh’s lengthy (and rather whiny) interview with Jesuit Fr. Antonio Spadaro. HERE He’s sooooo misunderstood! And he tells us about that at jesuitical length. … Read More →

Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices | Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Antonio Spadaro, can. 915, can.916, dubia, Five Dubia, Four Cardinals
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ACTION ITEM! Petition in support of the Four Cardinals and Five Dubia

Posted on 2 December 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

LifeSite has a petition in support of the Four Cardinals and their Five Dubia. HERE Please consider signing. I, for one, want clarity about the questions submitted by the Four Cardinals. The questions were necessary to maintain the integrity the … Read More →