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Cardinal Walter Brandmüller has questioned the Church’s modern understanding of synodality, warning that it risks blurring the authority given to bishops through Holy Orders.
Bishop Robert Mutsaerts, a Dutch auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch, has made a name for himself through pointed interventions that are hardly favorable to the "synodalist" direction taken by "Francis" and subsequently "Leo." In 2012, he walked out of the synodal assembly, declaring: "God is outside this vile synodal process." In 2026, he stood his ground with a dense, deeply considered text addressed directly to "Pope" Leo. And therein lies the rub: by persisting in recognizing the antipope Leo as the true pope while simultaneously criticizing him, one ultimately strengthens him. Bishop Mutsaerts—just a little more effort, please!
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has criticised a 2006 Vatican doctrinal notification against liberation theologian Fr Jon Sobrino, arguing it risked portraying theology rooted in “the context of the poor” as “inadequate and dangerous”. Speaking in Rome, the DDF prefect also revealed his own defence of “contextual theology” once caused difficulties with the doctrinal dicastery
Bishop Marian Eleganti speaks to AdVaticanum on the appeal of the traditional liturgy, Islam and the Society of St Pius X. Eleganti addresses the fallout of the Second Vatican Council, the place of the old rite and the pertinent questions facing the Church in the West
