Priests and Marriage

Italian priest concelebrates his 100th birthday Mass with his 4 sons, also priests

08/20/2019 at 8:25 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Matthew Green, Aletia, June 17, 2019 A spiritual son of Padre Pio, Fr. Vaccarini hasn't wasted a minute of his century-long life. Father, priest, father of priests, centenarian, author, disciple of Padre Pio, Veteran of World War II … Perhaps we could think of Fr. Probo Vaccarini as a... read more
Cardinal Hummes

The Amazon synod organisers are at odds with Pope Francis

08/16/2019 at 2:14 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Fr Raymond de Souza, Catholic Herald, August 15, 2019 In a recent interview granted to La Stampa, Pope Francis spoke about the Synod for the Amazon, which will take place in October. The Synod’s Instrumentum Laboris (IL) was released in June and has been subject to withering criticism since,... read more

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
By Maike Hickson, LifeSite News, July 18, 2019 Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the Auxiliary Bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, has stated that Pope Francis has a "strict duty, as given to him by God" to uphold the "apostolic inheritance of priestly celibacy" at the upcoming Amazon Synod and to pass on... read more

DC priest: celibacy allows a priest to give himself for others

07/18/2019 at 10:40 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency, July 17, 2019 Commentators and critics, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, have in recent months called for an end to the discipline of priestly celibacy, especially in the wake of revelations of widespread historical sexual abuse in the United States, and... read more

Cardinal Gerhard Muller: ‘True Reform of the Church Is About Her Renewal in Christ’

07/10/2019 at 4:53 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
In a wide-ranging interview that discusses the Pan-Amazon synod and the Church in his home country of Germany, the cardinal says Western Christianity is experiencing a crisis of faith and spiritual leadership. By Edward Pentin, July 5, 2019 The thinking behind the much-debated working... read more

Vatican walks tightrope on China, comes on strong with Germany and confession

07/03/2019 at 3:43 PM By Kevin Edward White
By: John L. Allen Jr., CRUX, July 2, 2019 ROME - Now that we’re in the dog days of summer, this year featuring record high temperatures across Europe, one might think the Vatican would be entering a “mad dogs and Englishmen” sort of lull. However, that’s not the nature of the Pope... read more

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
By Maike Hickson June 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, one of the two remaining dubia cardinals, today issued a strong critique of the Vatican’s working document (Instrumentum Laboris) for the upcoming Pan-Amazon Synod, calling it “heretical” and an “apostasy”... read more

Evangelizing the Amazon and the Gift of Priestly Celibacy

06/27/2019 at 4:46 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
COMMENTARY: Will the proposed change in discipline lead to a holier clergy and a holier Church, or will it weaken the Church’s mission to evangelize and make saints of those in the Amazon and elsewhere? Fr. Roger Landry Blog, June 27, 2019 Friday is the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart... read more

Pre-Amazonian Synod ‘Study Meeting’ Held in Rome

06/26/2019 at 12:49 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
A number of key German Church leaders, including Cardinal Walter Kasper, were in attendance at the June 25 Meeting Edward Pentin Blog, June 26, 2019 VATICAN CITY — A private meeting held to discuss the upcoming Amazonian synod and involving largely German-speaking prelates and experts... read more

Amazon Synod Working Document Released Today, and It Confirms There’s Trouble on the Horizon

06/18/2019 at 5:12 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Steve Skojec, OnePeterFive, June 17, 2019 The “Instrumentum Laboris” (working document) for the upcoming Amazon Synod was released today. Currently available only in Italian and Spanish, the 45,000-word document — as expected — contains indications that like the two family synods... read more

Canon law expert predicts married priests in the West after Amazon Synod

06/03/2019 at 11:03 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Maike Hickson, LifeSite News, May 30, 2019 Thomas Schüller, a German canon law expert and university professor, predicts that the upcoming Amazon Synod will ask for married priests for the Amazon region, after which the German bishops will also “for sure” ask for them. “Before... read more
Cardinal Robert Sarah

‘As a bishop, it is my duty to warn the West’: An interview with Cardinal Sarah

04/09/2019 at 9:24 AM By Kevin Edward White

The Amazon Synod: A Trojan Horse to Destroy Priestly Celibacy?

03/29/2019 at 12:18 PM By Kevin Edward White

Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Brazilian Catholics aren’t asking for married priests

03/13/2019 at 12:05 PM By Kevin Edward White

The Problems with “Proven Men”

06/25/2018 at 4:15 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Bishop Schneider on the Pan-Amazon Synod, Married Priests, and Female Preachers

06/22/2018 at 3:39 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Will Pan-Amazonian Synod Result in End to Clerical Celibacy?

03/09/2018 at 8:32 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Austrian Priest: Before Female Priests, There Will be Married Priests

01/12/2018 at 10:22 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Married Priests and Missionary Failure

11/17/2017 at 8:41 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Pope Francis asks Brazilian bishops to discuss overturning priestly celibacy: report

11/06/2017 at 7:48 PM By Mary Anne Hackett