Dubia

Pope Francis meets with Cardinal Burke amid salary, apartment controversy

By Daniel Payne, Catholic News Agency Staff, December 29, 2023 Pope Francis on Friday had an audience with Cardinal Raymond Burke, the Vatican said, several weeks after a flurry of reported controversy involving the pontiff and the 75-year-old U.S.-born prelate. A release from the Holy See... read more

Exclusive. Müller Writes to Duka: Fernández Goes Against Catholic Doctrine, and With Him Is the Pope

By Sandro Magister, L'Espresso, October 13, 2023 (s.m.) In the open letter to his friend Cardinal Dominik Duka published today exclusively by Settimo Cielo, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller criticizes in depth the response given last September 25 by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, the... read more

The ‘Dubia’ Were Not Meant as an Attack on the Pope, Cardinal Burke Says

The cardinal spoke out at a conference organized in Rome on Oct. 3. By Solène Tadié, National Catholic Register, October 5, 2023ardinal Raymond Burke has spoken out on the reactions raised by the dubiahe and four other cardinals submitted to Pope Francis on the eve of the opening of the... read more

Pope responds to cardinals on blessings for homosexuals, female priests

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’

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

Are We All Schismatics Now?

The recent news of the Bishops’ Conference of Belgium approving a “blessing” and ritual service for same-sex couples is hardly surprising, given the current state of the Catholic Church in the Low Countries. Across the border, in Germany, the infamous “Synodal Way” marches apace... read more

Kazakh prelate says criticisms of pope a sign of collegiality

Bishop Schneider's comments came before Pope Francis' arrival for a meeting with bishops, priests, religious, laity and seminarians [Bishop Athanasius Schneider was the featured speaker at our October 2017 Catholic Citizens of Illinois Annual Banquet.–Ed.] By Junno Arocho Esteves,... read more

Traditional Latin Mass: Canonists Question the Legislative Force of Recent Vatican Guidelines

ANALYSIS: The interpretive document considerably tightens already-sweeping restrictions on the traditional form of the Roman Rite. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, February 8, 2022 VATICAN CITY — The Vatican document to bishops on how to implement certain restrictions on the... read more

‘Act of true charity’: Bishop Schneider praises initiative calling Pope to repent for Pachamama idolatry

[Bishop Athanasius Schneider was the featured speaker at our 2017 Catholic Citizens of Illinois Annual Banquet.–Ed.] By Maike Hickson, LifeSite News, November 15, 2019 Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, praised as an “act of true charity” a... read more

Cardinal Burke: ‘I’m Called the Enemy of the Pope, Which I Am Not’ A conversation with Cardinal Raymond Burke.

By Ross Douthat, New York Times, November 9, 2019 In mid-October, while the Catholic Church’s internal debates were reaching another crescendo at a synod for the Amazon region held in Rome, I sat down with Cardinal Raymond Burke, best known as Pope Francis’s most vocal critic in the... read more
Fr. Gerald E. Murray

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

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
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (with Archbishop Georg Gänswein) [Photo: Andrew Medichini/Associated Press]

The Dubia Were Answered