Indifferentism

Book Review: Deadly Indifference: How the Church Lost Her Mission, and How We Can Reclaim It

By Dan Millette, One Peter Five, June 1, 2021 Deadly Indifference: How the Church Lost Her Mission, and How We Can Reclaim It(Amazon; Sophia Press)Eric SammonsCrisis Publications304 pages$18.95 Paperback; $9.99 eBook “Just shut up and stick to reviewing the book,” I remind myself... read more

Will there be a German schism? Card. Müller: ‘I fear yes; I hope not.’

'There is no German Church, except in the minds of authoritarian bishops who abuse their office, of lay functionaries who are thirsty for power and of ideologically stubborn professors. In the light of the image of the Church of Vatican II, these men of the German national church are not as... read more

Vatican Now in Crisis Management Mode with German Bishops

Sources say that two senior cardinals wanted to bring the president of the German bishops’ conference to Rome for correction regarding his recent controversial comments, but were overruled by Pope Francis. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, March 26, 2021 VATICAN CITY — In... read more

Freedom for Form

By James Matthew Wilson, The Catholic Thing, March 6, 2021 Hans Urs von Balthasar’s little book, In the Fullness of Faith first appeared in the mid-1970s and proclaimed a striking mission. Vatican II had encouraged a spirit of ecumenism within the Catholic Church, but the most common... read more

Catholic Schools and Transgender Students

By Gerard V. Bradley, Public Discourse, February 9, 2021 The lastingness of each person’s reality as male or female is so integral to the faith’s architecture, that to deny it—even to equivocate about it—is to undermine Catholic faith itself. No Catholic institution should risk that... read more

Vatican cardinal clashes with German theologian over ‘Eucharistic meal fellowship’

Catholic News Agency, February 10, 2021 Vatican cardinal has responded to a German theologian who criticized him for opposing a proposal for a “Eucharistic meal fellowship” between Catholics and Protestants. Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian... read more

THE DISEASING OF JUDGMENT

by Frank Furedi, First Things, January 2021 Students clamor for “safe spaces.” Protesters smash windows and political leaders insist on saying that it’s important to hear their “voices.” Parents speak of children’s behavior as “unhealthy,” avoiding moral terms. We tend to think... read more

The Church in Crisis

Reviewed by Eduardo J. Echeverria, The Catholic Thing, December 14, 2020. Ralph Martin, president of Renewal Ministries, director of graduate theology programs in evangelization and a professor of theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, has written an extraordinary book, A Church in Crisis:... read more
Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Najeeb Michaeel Moussa of Mosul

Archbishop of Mosul: Europe has Been Weakened by its Denial of its Spiritual and Cultural Roots

In the face of the recent terror attacks that hit France and Austria, Iraqi archbishop Najeeb Michaeel, recently nominated for the Sakharov Prize, says the Old Continent is guilty of laxity with regards to the advance of radical Islam. By Solène Tadié, National Catholic Register, November... read more

Where Francis Leads, We Can’t Follow

By Michael Warren Ware, October 22, 2020“Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable because of it. What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered. I... read more

Cardinal Burke: Pope’s homosexual civil union remarks ‘contrary’ to Scripture, Tradition

In a new documentary Pope Francis called for homosexual civil unions to be legalized. By Cardinal Raymond Burke, October 22, 2020 The worldwide communications media have reported with strong emphasis, as a change of course, the news that Pope Francis has declared that persons in the... read more
Archbishop Luis Ladaria at a book presentation at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Vatican’s Doctrinal Office Critiques German Theologians’ Intercommunion Call