‘Angry’ Belgian bishop slams Vatican for rejecting same-sex blessings
'I feel vicarious shame for my Church' and said the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's statement negative response to priests blessing same-sex unions.
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Articles tagged Synod On The Family
Why did Pope Francis write such a strange paragraph about Cardinal Danneels?
It almost comes off as a thumb of the nose to the Catholic faithful.
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Author presents evidence Pope Francis used family synods to steer Church to accept homosexuality
The author highlighted the crucial role in the synods of Cardinal Walter Kasper, whom he numbers among the 'most open and gay-friendly cardinals.'
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Vatican expert lays out the current ‘crisis’ in the Church
A Rome correspondent discussed issues of concern about the current papacy at a recent conference.
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Cardinal Wuerl: Francis is changing the papacy and ‘completely refocusing the role of bishop’
After Francis, the papacy 'will never look like it did 25 or more years ago,' he says.
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Vatican official close to Pope’s inner circle shares explosive information
A reader shares a revealing and candid conversation with a Vatican official close to Pope Francis’ inner circle.
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3 cardinals join 80 Catholic leaders in declaration affirming Church’s unchangeable teaching on marriage
The new Declaration upholds those truths explicitly or implicitly denied or rendered ambiguous in the present ecclesial language.
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Canadian archbishop to accept award from women’s ordination advocacy group ‘FutureChurch’
FutureChurch, which aims to 'reinvent' the Church, will also host a keynote by famed dissident Fr. Charles Curran.
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At World Youth Day, Pope’s leading Italian bishop suggests Sodom wasn’t destroyed
The story of God destroying Sodom was really about finding 'positive possibilities' in sin.
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Liberal Jesuit magazine editor discusses his close ties to Pope Francis
Fr. Antonio Spadaro is so close to the pope that pundits describe him as Francis’ ‘mouthpiece.’
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