The Anti-Ecumenism of Pope Francis
Fiducia Supplicans causes the Coptic Orthodox to suspend their ecumenical dialogue with Rome, citing the declaration’s change to the Catholic Church’s position on homosexuality.
Fiducia Supplicans causes the Coptic Orthodox to suspend their ecumenical dialogue with Rome, citing the declaration’s change to the Catholic Church’s position on homosexuality.
Fiducia Supplicans exposed deep divisions within the Catholic Church, and now it is reaching its tentacles beyond the Church to scuttle attempts at union with non-Catholic churches.
As much as Francis of Assisi loved nature, he understood that our first responsibility is to God and not to nature. It’s not clear if his namesake pope feels the same.
It is not disrespect of papal magisterium to register difficulties with supposedly pastoral recommendations on the basis of prudential criteria.
St. John Henry Newman lived at a time when a Catholic’s obligation of obedience to the pope was hotly debated. What he wrote can be challenging today both for those who advocate for total obedience and for those who “recognize and resist” Pope Francis.
I think I speak for a lot of Catholics when I say that the whole circus surrounding Pope Francis has become wearisome.
The Church under Pope Francis has become infiltrated by the strange ideological connotations found among communist-sympathizing Liberation Theologians.
Fiducia Supplicans does, as Cardinal Fernández and Pope Francis hoped it would, provide clarity; it just isn’t the clarity they wanted.
Cardinal Müller addresses the nature of papal infallibility, the limits of papal authority, and the possibility of a heretical pope.
A hope for an empty Hell has massive—and dangerous—implications for how one lives.
In many ways, the clarification published by Cardinal Fernández is even worse than the original document it purports to clarify, Fiducia Supplicans.
The Church, which has always stood for sanity, may have to ask the Pope to step down in order to make things sane again.
Fiducia Supplicans directly flows from principles and premises articulated in the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
A year that began with the death of Pope Benedict XVI ended with an open revolt against Pope Francis. After a decade of “making a mess,” it appears even the bishops are tired of the constant battles and controversies of this pontificate.
Rather like a flame that burns brightest before it is extinguished, there has been a flurry of papal pronouncements, paving the way for what may be a course entrenched, if not irreversible, for his successor to face.
A former Episcopalian priest reflects on the Vatican’s allowance of pastoral blessings for same-sex couples.
The only way to make Fiducia Supplicans orthodoxish is to pretend that two words that mean the same thing when used in the same context do not mean the same thing when used in the same context.
If you knew that the person was going to misunderstand your blessing, would it be right to let him or her be in vincible ignorance?
The new Vatican document approving the blessing of same-sex couples has caused a lot of controversy in the Catholic world, and sadly, many Catholics are not being forthright about what the document says.
The Vatican’s approval of blessings for same-sex couples and couples in “irregular situations” reflects a divorce between morality & pastoral practice, liturgy & life, and orthodoxy & orthopraxy.