Did Pope Leo just warn the Amazon bishops away from heterodoxy?
Pope Leo XIV appears to have warned the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon that the glory days they may have dreamt of under Pope Francis are no more.
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Articles tagged Amazon Synod
Pope Leo XIV affirms clerical celibacy, urges bishops to embody ‘holy and chaste’ Church
The Pope's comments were given to bishops and seminarians in the wake of a long-running discussion about the question of clerical celibacy in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.
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Cdl. Kasper: Francis wanted to ‘change’ priestly celibacy, but Benedict XVI, Cdl. Sarah ‘intervened’
Cardinal Kasper said about celibacy that ‘Francis definitely wanted to change something, but Pope Emeritus Benedict successfully intervened at the time together with Cardinal Robert Sarah.’
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John-Henry Westen tells Glenn Beck: Francis cardinals won’t all vote for another liberal pope
In a recent interview with Glenn Beck, Westen stated: 'Can you find enough guys who sign up to that kind of extreme left-wing, non-Catholic type of deal, and the answer is: No.'
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Cardinal Zen: Pope Francis uses synods in attempt to ‘change Church’s doctrines’
In a recent article published in multiple languages, Hong Kong’s emeritus Cardinal Zen once more delivered a strident criticism of the recently concluded Synod on Synodality.
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Synodality is the common thread linking the many controversies of the Francis pontificate
As Cardinal Joseph Tobin stated in 2021, 'synodality is, in fact, the long-game of Pope Francis.' The process of 'listening and dialogue' leading to doctrinal revolution and relativism is the string which ties together not just previous synods, but the last 11 years.
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Amazon cardinal ‘lays hands’ to confer ‘ministry’ on women going to ‘celebrate a sacrament’
Brazil’s Cardinal Ulrich Steiner told a press conference that he ‘lays hands’ on women who will baptize people in the Amazon region, asserting that 'in our reality, women exercise the deacon's ministries.’
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Head of Latin American bishops praises Amazon liturgy, expresses openness to married clergy
Archbishop Jaime Spengler's comments confirm plans to move forward with an Amazonian-style liturgy and also lend support to the much debated issue of having married clergy in the Amazon region.
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New Amazon rite of the Mass to enter 3-year ‘experimental phase’
The ‘Amazon rite,’ inspired by local traditions and customs in the region and proposed at the 2019 Amazon Synod, will enter a three-year ‘experimental phase’ in late 2024, a Vatican theologian has said.
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New book lays bare the historical reasons for Francis’ subversive pontificate
'Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the product of the Cuban revolution, the Second Vatican Council, Father [Pedro] Arrupe’s reform of the Society of Jesus, and the corresponding revolutions throughout Latin America,' writes Jean-Pierre Moreau.
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