If I were created a Cardinal and dispensed from the canonical requirement to be ordained a deacon or priest – my vocation is as a layperson – this is how I would counsel the Holy Father on the first anniversary of his pontificate. “Holy Father,…
Cardinal Reinhard Marx has moved decisively to normalise the blessing of same-sex couples in his Archdiocese of Munich and Freising—an intervention that lays bare the deepening doctrinal confusion at the heart of the Catholic Church in Germany.…
The number of international Church leaders who have come to the defense of Pope Leo XIV following President Donald Trump’s verbal attacks continues to grow and now includes Cardinal Gerhard Müller. The post Global Church…
U.S. Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke has downplayed what many in the media have described as growing tensions between the Vatican and the U.S. Trump administration, arguing that “the narrative of an ongoing clash is exaggerated.” The…
“The Church is nothing without God,” Cardinal Sarah said in a recent interview. “God must truly be placed at the centre of our existence, at the centre of our life, at the centre of our concerns.” He added: “If we detach the Church from this…
In an interview published yesterday on the Italian blog Messa in Latino, the 72-year-old Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht and Primate of the Netherlands explained why he decided to learn the vetus ordo. He said he has received considerable…
The SSPX regards the Second Vatican Council as a break with previous doctrine. But Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller says that the Society’s notion of a “break does not exist; there is no justification for the planned episcopal ordinations.” The…
Nearly six months after publicly criticizing Cardinal Blase Cupich’s plan to give a “lifetime achievement” award to pro-abortion-rights Senator Dick Durbin, a long-serving lay member of the Catholic Conference of Illinois (CCI) board of…
Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val’s example of humility, statesmanship, and a profoundly supernatural approach to public life reminds the faithful that the Church’s first allegiance is not to any nation or party, but to truth itself. This was the…
Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu of Tehran and Isfahan, Iran has surfaced in Rome after days of uncertainty about his whereabouts following the start of a U.S. and Israel-Iran war. In a brief statement sent to the Belgian Catholic news site,…
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