Archbishop Gänswein Archive
Was the 2013 renunciation of Benedict XVI a valid act of resignation? Almost immediately after issuing the Declaratio of 10 February 2013, there were serious scholars, clerics and religious – men holier and more learned than I – calling its validity into question. …
As I write, it has been just about ten weeks since Archbishop Ganswein confirmed Benedict’s intent to “expand” and “transform” the Petrine office in such way as to give it a “collegial and synodal dimension, as a quasi-shared ministry;” with Benedict desiring to …
In a recent interview with German journalist Paul Badde (writing for Bergoglian News Agency), Archbishop Gänswein was asked to clarify remarks made in his presentation of 20 May 2016 concerning the intentions of Pope Benedict XVI. The Prefect of the Papal Household and …
In the aftermath of Archbishop Gänswein’s stunning confirmation concerning the intentions of Pope Benedict XVI with respect to his resignation, it has become perfectly clear that confusion is the order of the day; with well-meaning, good people drawing varying conclusions. I want to …
In a recent column for First Things, George Weigel, the aging icon of Catholic neo-conservatism, proclaimed a fundamentally important and eminently timely truth with impeccable clarity: “The Petrine Office is not divisible in any fashion, nor can it be a dyarchy in …
Our friends at the Rorate Caeli blog have had a bad week, or perhaps better stated, a revealing one. On May 23, they dutifully published the Holy See Press Office Communiqué denying the recent declaration of Professor Ingo Dollinger wherein he confirmed precisely …
In the aftermath of Amoris Laetitia, with its bald faced blasphemy and hair raising heresy, one may well have been tempted to believe that the stench of infidelity emanating from Rome couldn’t possibly become more putrid than it already is. And yet it …
