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Analyzing the de facto schism in the Catholic Church in Germany
Martin Bürger is a German Catholic journalist who has the inside scoop on what's going on in the Church in Germany.
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Articles tagged Cardinal Reinhard Marx
Fr. James Martin retweets complaint priests can’t bless ‘committed gay couples’
Fr. Martin retweeted something from a protégé of Fr. Thomas Rosica.
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Cardinal Reinhard Marx vs. Cardinal (and Saint) Peter Damian: Do homosexual unions have ‘value’?
St. Peter Damian, a cardinal who wrote the most extensive treatment of the issue of homosexual unions in the Church’s history, also had a very different understanding of the value of homosexual relations from that of Cardinal Marx.
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Exhortation allows Communion for divorced/remarried on case-by-case basis, claim 3 German bishops
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop Dr. Heiner Koch, and Bishop Franz-Josef Bode all cited footnote 351.
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How did heterodox prelates try to change doctrine at synod?
The heterodox party adopted a variety of strategies directed towards changing church teaching while giving the impression that doctrine would remain untouched.
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Papal call for ‘decentralization’ puts integrity of Catholic doctrine at risk
Pope Francis can only restore trust by publicly correcting heresy and by ending his practice of conferring honours and influence on prelates who reject the Catholic faith.
Opinion
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Cardinal Burke criticizes German cardinal’s ‘ridiculous’ claim that German Church is not a ‘subsidiary of Rome’
'We are all oriented toward Peter, that is the unity of the Catholic Church.'
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Cardinal Brandmüller: Advocates for changing Catholic teaching on marriage are ‘heretics’ – even if they are bishops
The cardinal also lambasted Cardinal Marx’s claim that the German Church could act independently of Rome, saying Marx’s remarks were ‘irresponsible’ and ‘in contradiction with the dogma of the Church.’
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Vatican’s doctrine chief: ‘Absolutely anti-Catholic’ to let bishops conferences decide doctrine or discipline
'The president of an Episcopal Conference is nothing more than a technical moderator, and as such has no special teaching authority,' says Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller.
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Vatican cardinal tells German bishops: We can’t adapt the faith to the times like Christians did under the Nazis
The realities of life 'cannot be a third reality of the revelation next to Holy Scripture and the Magisterium,' he says.
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