Is Pope Francis’s Amazon Synod exhortation a relief or the tip of the iceberg?
The one large caveat in all this, which is presented in a way clearly intended to avoid adding fuel to already raging fires, is the ambiguity.
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Robert Royal
Pope Francis’s post–Amazon Synod exhortation could be worse than everyone thinks
By intention or not, the current papacy has brought back something that we thought died in 1978.
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Vatican doesn’t understand that communist China will never compromise
It’s worth trying to think through why the Vatican thinks the way it does about China.
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Amazon Synod condemns countries that best balance environment and society
The synod participants don't give the impression of understanding many key details, to say nothing of the big picture.
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Amazon Synod proving to be as bad as critics warned. What do we do now?
The bishops and others carefully selected to participate in the synodal discussions over the next three weeks seem very unlikely to resist the ideological tide.
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What might a truly Catholic Amazon Synod look like?
The Synod for the Amazon could have been an opportunity to inspire new ways of conveying the Good News to a land that has not been fully evangelized.
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Lessons from Dante’s Inferno: Not even the pope can change basic Catholic truths
Even in those 'superstitious' and priest-ridden Middle Ages, there were strong views about the limits of papal authority.
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US Catholics don’t understand how little Europeans care about Vatican corruption
It may be difficult for most American Catholics to believe, but there's little interest about the abuse summit in Italy, or most of Europe.
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Cdl. Muller’s ‘blunt’ manifesto restates fundamental truths
Like everything Cardinal Mueller has published since Pope Francis removed him from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, it's rich in a multitude of ways.
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4 essential New Year’s resolutions to help the Church in 2019
It may not hurt to lay out some public desiderata anno Domini 2019.
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