Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, defender of the Catholic faith, dies at 89
Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes was a charitable man who quietly and carefully spoke out in favor of Church teaching during the pontificate of Pope Francis.
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Articles tagged Paul Josef Cordes
Swiss priest warns against German bishops’ plan to separate Church governance from ordination
Trying to give some lay people ecclesiastical governance authority which they cannot have, by means of misguided pre-conciliar theories, is not an answer to the question of what the ecclesiastical mission of all lay people is.
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Cardinal: Coronavirus pandemic is a chastisement for the Church
German cardinal Paul Josef Cordes has joined the growing number of Catholic leaders looking at the coronavirus as punishment for the Church.
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Cardinal: Pope’s Amazon exhortation defectively quotes canon law, undermining the priesthood
Footnote 136 of Querida Amazonia quotes canon law in a defective way, according to Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes.
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EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal warns Church about slipping into idolatry of ‘mother earth…Gaia’ worship
‘The light of Revelation opposes decidedly all worship that is not directed at God,’ said Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes.
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German cardinals, bishops, priests reject Cdl. Marx’s agenda to revisit celibacy, sexual morality
"A 'synodal path' can be good if it is about consultations, but when one thinks that [...] one has to change everything that the Church has so far done, nothing good can come from it."
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German cardinal: liturgical ‘blessing’ for gay unions is ‘truly…sacrilegious’
Such a suggestion 'ignores the clear Revelation of God.'
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German cardinal defends four Cardinals over ‘indignant’ attacks
Footnote 351 "certainly does not have the status and rank of a Dogma," said Cardinal Cordes.
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Eleven cardinals defend Catholic moral teaching on marriage and family
Eleven princes of the Church have taken to writing to refute the 'Kasper proposal' allowing Communion for divorced Catholics in new relationships.
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Cardinal’s new booklet confirms high-level resistance to Kasper proposal
May all these resisting Cardinals take new courage and strength in preparing for the second part of the Synod of Bishops on the Family.
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