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Category Archives: One Man & One Woman
Card. Kasper gives YET ANOTHER interview to America Magazine and an Argentinian daily
Walter Card. Kasper, author of a proposal for the civilly remarried to receive Communion – and thus to create an under-class of Catholics, “tolerated but not accepted” Catholics, has given an interview – yet another – to Amerika, which has … Read More
Why “oikonomia” isn’t a solution for divorced and civilly remarried.
Italian writers have finally gotten to the section by Archbp. Cyril Vasil, SJ, in The Book, that is, the “Five Cardinals” book in defense of the Catholic teaching on marriage. Available now in the UK: HERE Archbishop Vasil is Secretary of … Read More
Posted in One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged divorce and remarriage, oikonomia
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18 Comments
“Bitter clash”? In your dreams, liberals.
At the liberal US Catholic I saw a piece from the RNS, rarely anything but left-leaning, there is a completely irresponsible claim about the book on marriage about which I have written several times. Here is the offending quote. VATICAN … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Liberals, One Man & One Woman, You must be joking!
Tagged debate, divorce and remarriage, marriage
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13 Comments
Card. Burke: “It simply makes no sense to talk about mercy which doesn’t respect truth.”
His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke, still Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, has been interviewed by Catholic World Report. HERE The first part reminded me of one of the very last things Pope Benedict said in public. During an audience just … Read More
BOOK: Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church
There are all sorts of rumors out there about how The Book™ is being received in Rome as the days tick off to the opening of the Extraordinary Synod. The book I am talking about is, of course, the new … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z rants
First, the moderation queue is ON. Before you reach to my rant (below), there is a must read piece at the blog of Prof. Ed Peters, canoniste extraordinaire, about the two groups who are tugging on the annulment process issue. … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Cri de Coeur, Fr. Z KUDOS, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Si vis pacem para bellum!, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged annulments, Communion, divorce, divorce and remarriage, Humanae vitae, indissolubility, marriage, Paul VI, scandal
95 Comments
95 Comments
Card. Kasper accused other Cardinals of attacking the Pope
Card. Kasper, the proponent of the “tolerated by not accepted” solution, has been reacting all over the Italian secular press today. He is “surprised” at the appearance of the “Five Cardinals” Book™. His Eminence is flummoxed that he should be … Read More
Synods and Sausage: having a Church isn’t for the squeamish
The opening of the Synod on the Family draws closer. Books in various languages are to be released in which marriage and Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried are studied, with a special eye on the proposals of Card. … Read More
“There are not a series of rules made up by the Church; they constitute divine law, and the Church cannot change them.”
Today in the liberal Italian daily Corriere della sera there is an article about the forthcoming book Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church (in English by Ignatius Press HERE – UK link HERE). The books is being rolled … Read More
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