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Tag Archives: Synod of Bishops
Good comments on Card. Burke and on a serious translation error
I had intended to write today about the translation error in the English version of the recent Synod’s final document. However, over at The Catholic Thing, Robert Royal covers the issue well and says many of the same things I had … Read More
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The Loosing of the Leash: Card. Burke appointed to Knights of Malta
And so the shoe has dropped. From today’s Bolletino. Nomina del Patrono del Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta Il Santo Padre ha nominato Patrono del Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta l’Em.mo Card. Raymond Leo Burke, finora Prefetto del Supremo Tribunale … Read More
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For love of the Eucharist, civilly married couple abstained from sex
We are not brute beasts. It seems to me that much of the debate about Communion for the divorced and remarried, and about homosexuals, is founded on the false premise that people simply cannot not have sex, as much as … Read More
Bp. Athanasius Schneider on the recent Synod’s final document: “radical neo-pagan ideology”
His Excellency Most Reverend Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan, had an interview with a Polish news outlet. HERE. He speaks with his usual forthrightness, to the point of being blunt. I am … Read More
A sharp view of the Synod and the winds of change
Marco Tosatti, an Italian journalist whom I have always liked and for whom I have even greater respect now than before, has a piece at La Stampa which bears attention. What really caught my eye was his quotation at the … Read More
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Final Report of the recent Synod now available in English
The final version of the Relatio Synodi of the III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops: “Pastoral Challenges to the Family in the Context of Evangelization” earlier in October is available now, in English, on the Vatican website. HERE … Read More
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Pope Francis doesn’t have to “break the Church”
Last summer during Acton University I had the chance to get to talk at length with Russ Douthat of Hell’s Bible (aka The New York Times… echo chamber of record for the liberal snob elite). Douthat is a voice of … Read More
What Archbp. Chaput really said about the Synod
This First Things piece is a must. It has many good points, so I urge you also to visit First Things and explore their combox, once some discussion gets underway there as well. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia spoke … Read More
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Oh the humanity!
Okay… we orthodox, faithful, conservative Catholics are the most flexible people around, but this simply needs some sort of intervention. Michael Voris is in Rome. He was doing some coverage of the Synod and has stayed also for the trad … Read More
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