“A Difficult Easter” in Palestine
We of Where Peter Is mulled over writing something about what’s going on in Gaza for a long time before I offered to do so. The stakes could hardly be any higher for getting an intervention on this right or...
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UPDATE: Church Militant shuts down, OR DID IT?
UPDATE: Story developing, see update below. ML. An email went out to Church Militant subscribers at 2:26 PM Eastern US Time this afternoon with the subject “Final Correspondence.” The message, signed by “St. Michael’s Media” announced, “After 17+ years of...
Pope to Canonize Argentina’s “Mama Antula”
From Vatican News: “Let us remember that the path of holiness implies trust and abandonment,” for when Blessed Maria Antonia arrived in Buenos Aires, she did so with only a crucifix and barefoot, “because she had not placed her security...
Pope Francis on Continued Fiducia Backlash: “This Is Hypocrisy!”
As 2024 proceeds into its second month, Pope Francis has continued to defend and solidify the teaching on blessings in the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s declaration Fiducia supplicans. Most recently he has taken to the Italian weekly...
Pope Francis opens Year of Prayer in preparation for Jubilee 2025
Last Sunday, Pope Francis officially opened the Year of Prayer, in preparation for the 2025 Jubilee. During the Angelus, the Holy Father announced that this year will be “dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer...
Give this Sunday over to the word of God
This upcoming Sunday, January 21, 2024, will be the Sunday of the Word of God! Established by Pope Francis in 2019, the third Sunday of Ordinary Time has been set aside so that it can be “given over entirely to...
Cardinal Burke’s meeting with Pope Francis
Earlier today, longtime papal critic Cardinal Raymond Burke had a private audience with the pope — his first in about seven years. Other than announcing that this meeting was on the pope’s schedule in the daily press bulletin, following standard...
DDF response to Card. Duka’s questions on Amoris Laetitia
Due to the media circus surrounding Cardinal Burke’s dubia 2.0 and 2.1 this morning, the publication of a second Vatican document appears to have gone largely unnoticed. Responses by Cardinal Fernandez to questions about Amoris Laetitia posed by Czech Cardinal...
Unofficial translation of pope’s response to Dubia 2.0
Update: Vatican News has now published a “provisional English translation”. This morning, Cardinal Raymond Burke and four other Cardinals published two sets of “dubia” that they sent to Pope Francis this summer. They submitted the first set of dubia on...
Prayers for Morocco
After a devastating earthquake struck Morocco on September 8 of this year, killing and injuring thousands of people– the deadliest earthquake in Morocco since a 5.9-magnitude earthquake in 1960–homes in villages across the High Atlas Mountains were demolished and residents...
New doctrine chief does the media rounds
Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez has done over 40 interviews since his appointment as prefect of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) in July, and perhaps the two most interesting were released this week, in which the Cardinal-designate...
Mongolian Church: “Like first-generation Christians”
Pope Francis is in Mongolia, where it’s currently late morning on Saturday, the second day of his apostolic visit. If you are so inclined, can watch the replay of his plane landing in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar via the...
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