Plea to the pope: Life and family leaders call on pope to ‘end the confusion’
16 international life and family advocates are asking Pope Francis in a powerful new video to unambiguously speak the truth of the Catholic faith
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Articles tagged Pope Francis
Another blow to Vatican transparency and financial accountability
The motu proprio released on Saturday is another blow to the cause of transparency and accountability at the Vatican..it is a victory for the “old guard”—the entrenched bureaucracy.
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Cardinal Sarah: ‘separating magisterial teaching from pastoral practice is… heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology’
3rd in a series of quotes from God or Nothing: "What good is it to know that the Pope's Twitter account is followed by thousands if people do not change their lives concretely?"
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Cardinal Schönborn: All prior teaching on family must be read through Amoris Laetitia
Schönborn, the exhortation's authoritative interpreter according to the pope, says it clearly allows Communion for those in objective states of sin.
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It’s not the first time Pope Francis has distanced himself from ‘conservative’ bishops
The pope's remarks from 2014 help shed light on his recent quotes about 'ultra-conservative' prelates.
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Pope names left-wing Archbishop Cupich to key role in picking future U.S. bishops
Cupich is a prominent ‘progressive’ who has frequently clashed with life and family advocates.
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U.S. Bishop: Catechism uses ‘very destructive’ language on homosexuality
San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy is strongly supporting the call for Christians to apologize to homosexuals.
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Archbishop Chaput: ‘Remarried’ Catholics must be abstinent to receive Communion
The archbishop of Philadelphia upholds the Church’s Tradition in new guidelines following upon Pope Francis’ exhortation.
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Priest ‘bewildered’ at Pope’s advice that pastors stay out of people’s moral lives
'As a priest, and especially as a confessor and spiritual director, this is my duty!' says DC pastor Msgr. Charles Pope.
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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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