Now that some of the dust has settled following the publication of the “Filial Correction” on Sunday (midnight Rome time), let’s take a closer look. We’ll begin by addressing the question, How is the Correction different than the appeals and petitions that preceded …
As has recently been made public, and will no doubt dominate Catholic (and perhaps much of secular) media in the coming days, a “FILIAL CORRECTION OF POPE FRANCIS For the Propagation of Heresies,” has been issued. The document bears the signature of some …
Today’s edition of L’Osservatore Romano has a front-page article written by the President of the newly reconfigured John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, Monsignor Pierangelo Sequeri (pictured above). Msgr. Sequeri opens his essay by calling his readers’ attention …
It’s “dirty work,” but it must be done… No, not the effort that is carried out here at akaCatholic by its contributors and commenters; a privilege for which we (and I am sure I speak for all concerned) are thankful to God. Rather, …
As Pope St. Pius X explained in his Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis – On the Doctrines of the Modernists – such persons often play fast and loose with language; “twisting words” and engaging in certain “novelties of words.” To this end, the Holy …
Jorge the Collegial is at it again; issuing yet another motu proprio from on high, this time, with a directive that amounts to a reconstitution of the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences. The motu proprio, presently available on …
With the publication of the Envirocylcical, Laudao Si’, many were shocked to discover that this represented the first time the once-condemned French Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, was cited in a papal (if you will allow) encyclical. (Laudato Si’, footnote no. 53) In 1962, …
As I write, it has been exactly one year to the day since the Dubia was delivered to Francis. Since then, he has refused to provide a formal response. (Though it must be said yet again that he has responded in any number …
Yesterday, Francis addressed a gathering of newly consecrated bishops on pilgrimage in Rome. In reality, it was a seminar on how to apply the pastoral pearls of wisdom found in Amoris Laetitia. The theme of the address (available on the Holy See website …
One of the big stories in the U.S. over the last week or so concerns the confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill for Circuit Court of Appeals judicial nominee Amy Barrett, a Catholic mother of seven. At issue is the line of questioning directed …
