Is Pope Francis’s Amazon Synod exhortation a relief or the tip of the iceberg?
The one large caveat in all this, which is presented in a way clearly intended to avoid adding fuel to already raging fires, is the ambiguity.
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Two popes: Francis and the 95-year-old atheist pope of secularism
The latest tête à tête between Pope Francis and Eugenio Scalfari reveals a lot about the priorities of both.
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Dutch bishop: Amazon synod puts climate change ahead of salvation of souls
Bishop Robert Mutsaerts cuts to the chase: Emphasis is on creation over Creator and not on the Eucharist or spreading the Catholic faith.
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The long war for female Catholic priests is reaching its climax
The St. Gallen mafia’s long war to revolutionize the priesthood has now reached a decisive moment. The showdown for the soul of the priesthood is here, raging at the Amazon Synod.
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Infanticide? Missionary bishop turns tables on oh, so civilized ‘civilization’
Calling 'civilized' abortion-committing hospitals 'slaughterhouses,' Bishop Santin had a brilliant point. Good for him.
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Missionary priest at Amazon Synod opposes rash changes to celibacy
While celibacy is 'not untouchable,' said Fr. Martin Lasarte, a priest with over two dozen years of missionary experience, it would be 'not honest' to make changes during the synod.
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Cardinal Müller: They have driven Jesus out of the Amazon Synod
'Jesus became man, not an icicle.'
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Scholar explains how Amazon Synod would abandon Church by changing priesthood
If the synod's working document is approved, claims José Antonio Ureta, 'neo-Lutheranism will have defeated the Council of Trent.'
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Amazon Synod working document earns strong criticism from Amazon experts
These individuals come from the Amazon region or have worked there and thus have deep knowledge of the larger situation. They are not impressed.
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Cdl. Sarah: Amazon synod would ‘definitively break’ with tradition in allowing married priests, female ministries
Such decisions could only be made due to 'lack of faith in God' and 'pastoral short-sightedness,' the Cardinal said.
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