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Category Archives: POPES
Communion for divorced/remarried. Ed Peters on what’s at stake.
Sacramental marriage is either indissoluble or it not. Over at his fine canon law blog, canonist Ed Peters has something to say about an upcoming, building controversy. Let’s understand what’s at stake by Dr. Edward Peters I suspect we’ll see … Read More
1st Year Anniversary of @Pontifex
I saw on News.va that today, one year ago, Benedict XVI launched @Pontifex on Twitter. Pope Francis has continued to use it, no doubt through surrogates. Here is his latest Latin tweet: Expers laetitiae nulla concipi valet Ecclesia quae tum … Read More
TIME and Pope Francis – POY
So, Pope Francis is TIME magazine’s Person of the Year. That’s about all I have to say about that, given the other names on that list. Though… If being Person of the Year is about the impact the person made, … Read More
Michael Coren on Popes who condemn “unfettered” capitalism
Michael Coren, the author of the recent title The Future of Catholicism, has a comment about a Pope who condemned “unfettered” capitalism. Keep in mind that “unfettered” capitalism is nowhere to be found. With that… from Coren on Mercatornet: I … Read More
Posted in Francis, Liberals, The Drill
Tagged capitalism, Michael Coren, Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum novarum
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Pope Francis v. world hunger
The Pope pitched in for a campaign against world hunger with a video message. His Holiness is using social media. QUAERITUR: Is the problem of world hunger Western greed and indifference or the rampant corruption in places where people are … Read More
An observation for Mr. Novak on Pope Francis and “trickle-down” in EG 54
I note that Michael Novak has tackled the issue of the Pope’s comment on economics in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium. He had an interview with National Review. Alas, I think Mr. Novak got a couple things wrong. In a … Read More
Posted in Francis, The Drill
Tagged "trickle-down", Evangelii gaudium, free market, Michael Novak, Pope Francis, translation
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39 Comments
Critic of Pope Francis loses gig with Catholic News Service
Remember that piece in which Adam Shaw, a writer for Fox blasted Pope Francis in Evangelii gaudier? HERE It seems he also wrote a bit for the Catholic News Service, bankrolled by the USCCB. It seems that CNS let him go. HERE … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Francis
Tagged Adam Shaw, Catholic News Service, CNS, Fox News, USCCB
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47 Comments
Andrew Napolitano reacts to Pope Francis comments on economics
I am close to being done with Pope Francis Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium. Let’s remember that it is not an encyclical. It is not even an Apostolic Letter. It’s only an Exhortation. It is, however, an Exhortation which has some … Read More
Fox News opinion piece BLASTS Pope Francis as “the Catholic Church’s Obama”
It seems that not everyone in the MSM is an adoring fan of Pope Francis. This is an … interesting op-ed on the site of Fox News, which is, yes, pretty much MSM now: Pope Francis is the Catholic Church’s … Read More
Pope Francis: Peace which is not tranquility.
In his daily, non-Magisterial of-the-cuff fervorino Pope Francis said this (remember, the Vatican doesn’t give us everything – they cut it up into little snippets they deem important and thus take everything out of context… I digress): […] “Jesus was full of … Read More
Posted in Francis, The Drill
Tagged amor, joy, peace, Picarda, Pope Francis, St. Augustine, tranquillity
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