In the past several days, a letter from Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to the German bishops has generated significant buzz, as it seems the Vatican has finally begun to take concrete action towards specific aspects of the German...
I have been working on another project for the past several days, but I did want to do quick a post about the new letter from Pope Francis regarding the Church in Germany. Salvatore Cernuzio of Vatican News provides the...
Yesterday, the second episode of The Debrief debuted on YouTube and wherever you listen to podcasts (If you haven’t already subscribed, search for the “Where Peter Is” podcast). In this episode, as promised, Dominic and I discussed the latest...
For nearly four years, ever since Pope Francis spoke about the possibility of a traditionalist schism in the Catholic Church in the US, the standard rebuttal by papal critics has been: βThe real schism is in Germany.β This is a...
Friday’s unexpected statement from the Vatican Press Office on the German Synodal Path struck many observers as unusual, and its brevity β only two paragraphs β left many scratching their heads. Not a few commentators seemed to think that this...
On July 22, 2022, Pope Francis issued the motu proprio Ad Charisma tuendum, explaining how the personal prelature of Opus Dei would be affected by the Holy Fatherβs reform of the Roman Curia. According to this document, the competencies regarding...
Recently, two prominent churchmen called for a change in the Churchβs teachings on sexuality. Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg said in an interview with a German Catholic news agency that the Churchβs teachings on homosexuality were no longer correct and...
Conversion is not a feel-good word. There is an interior magic in every beginning, says Hermann Hesse, but life teaches us that there is also a lot of effort. Looking back to the Churchβs sometimes glorified past for answers concerning...
Among some Catholics, there is outright opposition to the upcoming Synod on Synodality. On EWTN, for instance, Robert Royal described the synod by saying βI think that basically, itβs going to come down to a committee appointed by the pope...
Catholic News Service had a report today on a statement by Bishop Georg BΓ€tzing of Limburg, president of the German bishopsβ conference, following his private audience with Pope Francis this morning. The article quotes from BΓ€tzingβs statement, which says he...
Today, the cultural division between the Catholic Church and Western societyβespecially on moral issuesβis as wide as it has been since the rise of Christendom. The dictatorship of relativism that Pope Benedict XVI decried in 2005, which βdoes not recognize...
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