Weekend Recap
If you feel like the pace of news is hard to keep up with lately, you are not alone! We are right there with you! So, we’re starting the week with this recap of Pope Leo XIV’s busy weekend to...
Tagged: Cardinal McElroy
The Vatican’s first woman prefect (and more on McElroy to DC)
Pope Francis’s appointment of Sister Simona Brambilla as the first woman to lead a major Vatican office marks a historic milestone in the Catholic Church’s governance. As the new prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies...
At the Intersection of Culpability and Inclusivity
The synodal process and the recent remarks of Cardinal McElroy in America Magazine have generated a lot of good discussion within the Church about a critical and vital issue at the heart of pastoral care. His Eminence followed his original...
McElroy’s Pastoral Proposal is not Francis’s
I have written many times before about the difference between grave matter and mortal sin. The Catechism identifies grave matter as a breaking one of the Ten Commandments, whereas mortal sin is grave matter and “knowledge of the sinful character...
New cardinals round-up
At long last, the August 2022 consistory is upon us. After an unusual May announcement that a relatively large number of new cardinals would be created in August, Pope Francis will formally make 21 new Cardinals tomorrow. We have discussed...
All about priorities: Why Pope Francis picked Bishop McElroy
The appointment of San Diego’s Bishop Robert McElroy to the College of Cardinals has stirred some interesting, often impassioned responses in the Catholic world. Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter described the move as “thrilling.” Christopher Altieri suggested...
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