Leading cardinal of Belgium reflects on 2019: Brexit bad, atheism fully respectable
Jozef De Kesel, the primate of Belgium, had a number of political opinions to express regarding the past year.
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Articles tagged Jozef De Kesel
Admirers mourn death of liberal Belgian cardinal who was a huge Pope Francis supporter
Cardinal Godfried Danneels helped get Jorge Bergoglio elected, but he also will be remembered for telling a clerical sex-abuse victim to remain silent.
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Police arrest young Catholics praying rosary at Cathedral to protest Reformation event
Cardinal Jozef De Kesel participated in the 'profanation' of the faith in Belgium.
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Belgian bishops: Some adulterers should receive communion
A pastoral letter indicates that a decision to receive the sacraments rests with the individual person in an illicit union.
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Catholic university supports abortion, suspends prof for calling it murder
A petition drive is underway to defend the lecturer in philosophy at Catholic University of Louvain.
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New Cardinal of Brussels continues to mutilate his diocese
Cardinal Jozef De Kesel is running a faithful monastic order out of town.
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This heroic prelate would have been made cardinal under any other pope
But instead Francis chose to wait for his progressive successor.
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Brussels archbishop deals potentially fatal blow to rising vocation numbers
Archbishop De Kesel has said he dreams of a Church 'that accepts that she is getting smaller.' He himself seems to contribute his part.
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Belgian Catholic nursing home sued for not allowing doctor to euthanize woman
Brussels' new archbishop surprised some by taking a stand in defense of Catholics' right to conscientious objection. But it's clearly in line with his liberal worldview.
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Brussels’ new archbishop: ‘Mercy’ is condescending, Church needs to be more ‘relevant’
The Synod on the Family was 'a sign of a Church that has changed,' says the new archbishop.
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