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Synodality "is the specific modus vivendi et operandi of the Church..." -Vatican's Synod 2021-24 website, under "What is Synodality?" By Christina Deardurff A large group photo from the last week of the Synod. (Photo: Secretaria Generalis Synodi-Facebook) Three years after the first announcement came from the Vatican that the Church was about to embark [...]
By Courtney Mares (CNA) Pope Francis discusses with Cardinal Mario Grech the secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, and one of the chief organizers of the Synod. (Grzegorz Galaska photos) What is the Synod on Synodality? The Synod on Synodality, initiated by Pope Francis in October 2021, is a multiyear, worldwide undertaking during [...]
By ITV staff The October assembly in the Paul VI Hall with the small groups, also called Circuli Minores at work. The first of two parts in the final stage of the Catholic Church’s 2021-24 Synod on Synodality has just been completed. Reactions around the world, both throughout the two years since the Synod [...]
By Christina Deardurff, with agency reports October 29, 2023, Vatican Basilica. Pope Francis presides over the Holy Mass for the conclusion of the Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (Photo: Grzegorz Galazka) As the Vatican’s nearly monthlong Synod on Synodality drew to its October 29 conclusion, the 365 assembled cardinals, bishops, priests, [...]
By now, gallons of ink have been spilled in an effort to come to grips with Pope Francis’ July 2021 motu proprio (“on his own initiative”) letter to the world’s bishops placing new and dramatic restrictions on the celebration of the pre-1970 Mass (variously called the “Traditional Latin Mass” — TLM, or the “Extraordinary Rite” as [...]
By ITV staff Interpreting Pope Francis' Newest Encyclical on "Social Friendship" Pope Francis repeatedly makes it clear, in his documents and his talks, his recorded remarks at secular events and interviews with atheist journalists, that he is a Pope for the whole world. “Jesus did not come to earth just for Catholics,” he seems to say, [...]
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has sparked a new discussion of what Vatican II has done to the Church — and whether the Council can be salvaged By Christina Deardurff Since gaining celebrity in 2018 as a “whistleblower” of sorts in the sexual abuse case of the ebullient and influential American prelate, then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Carlo [...]
His has been a severe-grace, but also a beneficent-grace By Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Capuchin Mass opening the third Worldwide Priests' Retreat at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, a gathering promoted by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Recently, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó and others have expressed their concerns about the present state of the [...]
The Council’s time in history has passed By Anthony Esolen The Council of Trent (1588) by Pasquale Cati Da Iesi Thomas Aquinas(between Aristotle and Plato) Defeats Heresy, byBenozzo Gozzoli John Henry Newman, a convert from Anglicanism, elevated to the cardinalate in 1879 by Leo XIII, proclaimed a saint in 2019 by [...]
Or was it "a truth only half-received?" By John Cavadini, Ph. D. Ecumenism during the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 In a statement dated June 20, 2020, Archbishop Viganò reduces the Second Vatican Council to a seedbed of contemporary error animated by the spirit of “Masonry.” I sympathize with his frustrations with regard [...]
