Synod, Pan-Amazonian

Cardinal Hummes’s Radical Bedfellows

10/17/2019 at 5:51 PM By Kevin Edward White
By James Baresel, Crisis Magazine, October 17, 2019 The faithful laity had reason to be wary of the Amazon synod before it even began—if only because a well-known ally of liberation theologians like Cláudio Cardinal Hummes was appointed first to the pre-synodal council and then as relator... read more

Amazon prelate floats alternative to married clergy: Send some Roman priests home

10/16/2019 at 12:27 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Inés San Martín, Crux, Oct 16, 2019 ROME - One Venezuelan prelate taking part in the current Synod of Bishops on the Amazon says people back home have a creative alternative for coping with chronic priest shortages, beyond the much-discussed idea of married clergy to serve isolated rural... read more

Dissenting note struck on married priests as solution for the Amazon

10/16/2019 at 12:11 PM By Kevin Edward White
By John L. Allen Jr., Crux, Oct 16, 2019 ROME - For the first time in one of the Vatican’s daily news briefings during the Oct. 6-27 Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, a dissenting voice was struck Wednesday about the idea of ordaining married men to solve priest shortages in the region. “I... read more

The Amazonian “Paradigm”

10/15/2019 at 10:28 AM By Kevin Edward White
[Dr. Robert Royal, editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing, and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C., was the featured speaker at our September 25 Catholic Citizens of Illinois annual banquet. His most recent book is A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition... read more

Cardinal Marc Ouellet Defends Priestly Celibacy Ahead of Pan-Amazon Synod

10/14/2019 at 6:00 PM By Kevin Edward White
Pan-Amazon Synod Watch, October 14, 2019 The prefect for the Congregation for Bishops, who wrote the new book, Friends of the Bridegroom: For a Renewed Vision of Priestly Celibacy, said celibacy will be understood if the priest has a better sense of his own priesthood. Cardinal Marc Ouellet,... read more

A MISSION THAT BAPTIZED NO ONE IN FIFTY-THREE YEARS: THE FLAWED EVANGELIZATION MODEL OF THE PAN-AMAZONIAN SYNOD

10/12/2019 at 11:02 AM By Kevin Edward White
By José Antonio Ureta, Pan AmazonSynod Watch Since 1965, the Institute of the Consolata for Foreign Missions, originally from Turin and present in 28 countries, has had a mission among the Yanomamis in Brazil. The mission is currently led by the Italian priest Fr. Corrado Dalmolego, assisted... read more
Bishop Erwin Kräutler,

Key Synod Father Says Pan-Amazon Synod Is ‘Maybe a Step to’ Women Catholic Priests

10/09/2019 at 10:35 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, October 9, 2019 VATICAN CITY — One of the key figures behind the Pan-Amazon Synod’s working document admitted Wednesday that he supports the ordination of women as priests, and that he sees this month’s meeting as one possible step towards... read more

Father Thomas Weinandy: Threat of Church Division ‘Growing in Intensity’

10/09/2019 at 10:19 AM By Kevin Edward White
Father Weinandy calls on the Catholic faithful to pray “in fear and trembling” that Jesus might “deliver us from this trial.” By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, October 8, 2019 The Catholic Church is heading toward an “internal papal schism” whereby Pope Francis... 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

Theologian withdraws from German synodal path

09/23/2019 at 11:45 AM By Kevin Edward White
Vatican City, Sep 21, 2019 / 03:08 pm (CNA).- A member of the International Theological Commission has announced that she is no longer available to participate in the “binding synodal path” undertaken by the bishops’ conference of Germany. Marianne Schlosser, a member of the... read more

In the Amazon Married Deacons Are Already Saying Mass. And the Pope Knows It

09/12/2019 at 11:10 AM By Kevin Edward White
L'Espresso, September 10, 2019 For a few days a video has been circulating on the web in which an Italian priest of the highest rank, among those closest to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, says that in the Amazon the celebration of the Mass by married deacons is already a de facto reality, authorized by... read more

The Shire and the Amazon

09/09/2019 at 12:30 PM By Kevin Edward White
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

Archbishop Viganò: ‘The figure of Christ is absent’ from Amazon synod working document

08/03/2019 at 4:53 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

Retired bishop of Amazon’s most sprawling diocese defends synod

07/24/2019 at 3:49 PM By Kevin Edward White

Pan-Amazon Pandemonium

07/23/2019 at 9:26 AM By Kevin Edward White

Full text of Cardinal Mueller’s analysis on the working document of the Amazon synod

07/16/2019 at 4:48 PM By Kevin Edward White

The ‘Amazon Synod’: The Latest Outrage for Faithful Catholics

07/03/2019 at 12:01 PM By Kevin Edward White

BREAKING: Pre-Amazon Synod private meeting calls for female diaconate, Vatican in attendance

06/28/2019 at 10:07 PM By Kevin Edward White