Law

From Familiaris consortio to Amoris laetitia : and the pending response to the dubia?

Spin, Taylor, Spin: Taylor Marshall Discovers Papal Obedience; Asks Francis’ Intercession!

He once suggested the SSPX might need twelve new bishops. Weeks later four were too many. Now Leo gets endless benefit of the doubt, resistance has become rebellion, and he asks Francis’ intercession.

The subterfuge to close abuse cases without trial or reparation that emerged from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Within the Church, there exists a method for concluding procedures concerning the abuse of minors that bypasses a verdict, does not declare facts, does not hear the victim, and leaves no public trace.

Catholicism’s Surrender to Maoism

Beijing Chooses Communist Bishops. Rome Says Yes.

Beijing has chosen a new Catholic bishop who promoted Communist ideology, participated in Maoist political “re-education,” and dismissed reports of persecution against Catholics in his own diocese. Rome approved him anyway. The consecration of Paul Liu Honggang, argues Gaetano Masciullo, is a shocking example of what the Sino-Vatican agreement has produced: The Communist regime chooses, and Rome goes along with it.

Leo’s New Chinese Bishop Composed Hymn to Communist Party.

Rome’s version of unity accommodates Beijing

Reports: Andorra Working with Vatican to Decriminalize Abortion

European micro-state to change law in September…

Listening to God – Regarding the Sentence of “Excommunication” and “Laicization”

«Roma locuta, logica finita»

«Rome has spoken, logic is at an end»

There is a passage in Book Gamma of the Metaphysics that one always rereads with a smile that is not particularly charitable. Aristotle, weary of those who denied the principle of non-contradiction, decreed that there could be no discussion with them: whoever maintains that something can be and not be at the same time and in the same sense, he says, resembles a plant. Not a fool, nor even a sophist: a vegetable. One likes to think that twenty centuries of theology took this warning seriously. God does not contradict Himself, the truth does not contradict itself, and a Church guided by the Spirit cannot teach on Monday the opposite of what it solemnly and universally taught until Sunday evening. All this, of course, was before 2 August 2018.

A process becoming customary: the lawyer for Rupnik's victims denounces a trial «in the dark» and demands answers from the Vatican

The “Lute Case”: A Persecuted Priest-Lawyer and the Shadows Over Robert Francis Prevost’s Role

Fr. Ricardo Coronado Arrascue: The Priest-Lawyer Persecuted by Robert Francis Prevost

Homosexual Priests: How Benedict XVI Had Already Answered Father James Martin

This question had already received a clear, firm, and reasoned answer in an Instruction approved by Benedict XVI in 2005

Rupnik. Vatican Press Office Statement and some notes from MiL

We receive and publish below the Communication to journalists from the Director of the Press Office Matteo Bruni.

The generally well-informed blog "Missa in Latino" provides further details on the Rupnik case (he stated today that proceedings were going very well for him), and we cannot help but worry about a potential miscarriage of justice among cronies; however, the public reaction itself exerts pressure to ensure the matter is seen through to the end.