Cardinal Walter Brandmuller

Pope responds to cardinals on blessings for homosexuals, female priests

10/02/2023 at 12:44 PM By Kevin Edward White
Pope responds to cardinals on blessings for homosexuals, female priests By Justin McLellan, The Pilate,  October 2, 2023 VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church, in pursuit of "pastoral prudence," should discern if there are ways of giving blessings to homosexual persons that do not alter... read more

Cardinals ask Pope Francis to answer synod ‘dubia’

10/02/2023 at 11:25 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Luke Coppen, The Pillar, October 2, 2023 A group of five cardinals asked Pope Francis in August to answer five “dubia,” or doubts, related to the synod on synodality. The request was made public on the eve of the long-awaited gathering in Rome, which Vatican watchers say could lead to... read more

Return to ‘catacomb’ Masses after Pope Francis issues tight rules for the Latin Mass?

08/16/2021 at 11:46 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Terry Mattingly, Get Relgion, August 15, 2021 https://youtu.be/kooamQGDA_Y It's easy for religious leaders to create new laws, but it's harder to convince believers to follow them. At least, that's what the Benediction monk Gratian – a canon law pioneer – argued in the 12th... read more

10 German Dioceses Push for Major Changes During Upcoming ‘Synodal Path’

11/12/2019 at 10:41 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
According to a joint open letter released in Germany, vicars general say ‘fundamental reform’ is ‘essential’ and ask that accusations that participants are ‘lacking orthodoxy’ be avoided during the two-year synodal process. Edward Pentin Blog, November 6, 2019 Now that the... read more

‘Courageous…prophets of today’: Dubia cardinal praises men who threw Pachamamas in Tiber

11/01/2019 at 3:21 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
‘Courageous…prophets of today’: Dubia cardinal praises men who threw Pachamamas in Tiber Maike Hickson Blog October 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, one of the two remaining dubia cardinals and a respected Church historian – praised the men who removed the... read more
Leonardo Boff with the future and current Pope Francis (circled)

81-year-old liberation theologian is an architect of the Amazon Synod

10/25/2019 at 2:16 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Maika Hickson, LifeSite News, September 9, 2019 In recent weeks, there has been much discussion among solicitous Catholics about one of the inspirers of the upcoming October 6-27 Pan-Amazon Synod, Leonardo Boff. He is one of the founders of Liberation Theology and a co-author of Laudato Si,... read more
Cardinal Schönborn (Vienna)

Cardinal Schönborn: I Haven’t Read About Criticisms of the Synod

10/22/2019 at 12:10 PM By Kevin Edward White
The Archbishop of Vienna, a member of the drafting committee on the final document, also said he hadn’t reviewed evidence that the pro-abortion Ford Foundation is funding key synod groups. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, October 21, 2019 Despite being one of the four members of... read more

Amazon. Three More Cardinals Rebuff the Base Document of the Synod

09/26/2019 at 3:41 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Sandro Magister, SeventhHeaven, September 26, 2019 One after another, over three days, three more cardinals - like the Germans Walter Brandmüller and Gerhard Müller before them - have aimed severe criticisms at the “Instrumentum Laboris,” the base document of the upcoming synod on the... read more
Fr. Gerald E. Murray

If Pope Francis encourages criticism, why won’t he meet with dubia cardinals?

09/26/2019 at 11:35 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, LifeSiteNews, September 23, 2019 We know that Pope Francis is a believer in the value of criticism from his extensive remarks on the plane ride back from his recent apostolic visit to Africa. He said: "First of all, criticism always helps, always. When someone receives... read more

A Pope who doesn’t fear schism may cause one

09/12/2019 at 10:24 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Phil Lawler, CatholicCulture.org, September 11, 2019 “I am not afraid of schisms,” Pope Francis told reporters during his latest airplane press conference. Well, I am. And I’m afraid of any Roman Pontiff who isn’t afraid of splitting the universal Church. Which means that, yes,... read more
Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Vatican City, June 2019. (Daniel Ibáñez/CNA)

Burke and Brandmüller say Amazon synod challenges deposit of faith

09/05/2019 at 12:17 PM By Kevin Edward White
Catholic New Agency, September 4, 2019 Vatican City, Sep 4, 2019 / 05:45 pm (CNA).- Two cardinals have sent letters to fellow members of the College of Cardinals, raising concerns about the working document for an upcoming synod of bishops on the pan-Amazonian region. “Some points of the... read more

De Mattei: The ‘Assisted Suicide’ of the Church and Society

08/30/2019 at 1:44 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Bishop Schneider: Pope Francis has ‘strict duty’ to reaffirm priestly celibacy at Amazon Synod

07/25/2019 at 12:56 PM By Kevin Edward White

Benedictine theologian calls Amazon Synod working doc ‘biodegradable Christianity’ in searing new critique

07/11/2019 at 12:01 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Prof explains why it’s theologically impermissible for laity to govern Catholic diocese, parish

07/08/2019 at 10:20 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Cardinal critiques Amazon synod working doc as ‘heretical…apostasy’, urges bishops to ‘reject’ it

06/27/2019 at 4:58 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Maike Hickson

Before Pope Francis was accused of heresy, Catholics reached out to him numerous times

05/11/2019 at 5:58 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Cardinals Burke and Brandmüller: ‘End the Conspiracy of Silence’

02/20/2019 at 5:17 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

The Screening, Protection, and Crisis Education of Seminarians

01/23/2019 at 1:47 PM By Kevin Edward White

Homosexuality is to blame for sexual abuse, not Catholic church, claims German cardinal

01/05/2019 at 10:09 AM By Mary Anne Hackett