Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 29, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Nov 21, 2023 / 08:25 am (CNA). Pope Francis has written a letter to four German Catholic laywomen expressing his “concerns” about the direction of the Catholic Church in Germany. The following is CNA’s English translation of the full text…
Flags of the German Synodal Way hang outside conference center in Frankfurt, Germany, on March 9, 2023. / Credit: Jonathan Leidl/National Catholic Register Rome Newsroom, Nov 21, 2023 / 09:10 am (CNA). In a striking personal intervention, Pope Francis has written a letter to four German Catholic laywomen who quit the German Synodal Way earlier…
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An Excerpt from Vladimir Solovyov, Russia and the Universal Church, trans. Rees (London: Centenary Press, 1948), 96-98. It was not Simon’s apostleship that involved his change of name, for the change, though already predicted, was not made at the time of the choice and solemn sending forth of the Twelve. All with the single…
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In a little book written a couple of years after the 1992 release of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, then Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, recalled a postcard he had received from his great friend and mentor Hans Urs von Balthasar. The message on the card…
I watched the EWTN interview of Bishop Strickland last night and had nightmares while I slept. The bishop, articulate and, to my mind, innocent of all irony, recounted what had happened in his process of deposition and professed his recognition of the pope’s authority and his obedience to his removal from office. The sincerity of…
Pope Francis’ general audience of April 19, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Nov 21, 2023 / 04:55 am (CNA). Pope Francis has expressed deep reservations about the direction of the Catholic Church in Germany, warning that concrete steps currently being taken “threaten” to undermine unity with the universal Church. In a striking personal intervention,…
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