February 20, 2017 (Stream.org) — Media are positively frothing with stories suggesting a showdown between President Trump and Pope Francis, with conservative Catholics worldwide (but especially in America) as the prize that the two leaders will fight over. Here’s a piece from NBC that pretends that a theological satire by wearied faithful Catholics in Rome of the pope’s increasingly Progressive newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, is an instance of politicized “fake news.” You know, the kind of conservative news and opinion pieces from sources like Breitbart that the European Union, Google, Facebook, and Angela Merkel are scrambling to censor. Next we see a much more ambitious story — a […]
'L'Osservatore Romano' published directives from the bishops in Malta instructing the divorced and civilly remarried to follow their conscience on the receiving the sacraments.
The French law that earned praised in the pages of L'Osservatore Romano, allows 'the abuse of sedation,' and defines nutrition and hydration as 'treatment' that can be withdrawn.
The newspaper warns society will "pay a high price...as has already happened in the past when we have tried to achieve a complete economic and social equality.”
Michael O’Brien argues that the Vatican newspaper’s review springs from a “habit of making a split between faith and culture, and most strangely by straining to praise fundamentally disordered cultural material.”