Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com : The Vatican has categorically condemned euthanasia “in every situation or circumstance” as “an intrinsically evil act,” in the Church’s strongest magisterial pronouncement to date “on the care of persons in the critical and terminal phases of life.” Cdl. Luis Ladaria, prefect of Read more
Gloria.tv reports : Utrecht Cardinal Willem Eijk, Netherlands, speaks about the collapse of the Dutch Church in an interview book by Andrea Galli (Sandro Magister, September 21). The Netherlands were one of the most Catholic countries worldwide providing for 12% of the Catholic missionaries. Now, out of a population of Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is warning Pope Francis that the Vatican risks endangering its moral authority if it renews its controversial secret deal with China. Persecuted Chinese Catholics feel betrayed by Pope Francis “No regime suppresses faith on a larger Read more
Archbishop Viganò writes for OnePeterFive –-nPeter Kwasniewski’s recent commentary, titled “Why Viganò’s critique of the Council must be taken seriously”, impressed me greatly. It appeared (here) on OnePeterFive, on June 29, and is one of the articles on which I have been meaning to comment: I do so now, with gratitude to Read more
AppleDaily reports — China has placed dissenting Catholic priests in Jiangxi province under house arrest, in breach of an agreement signed with the Vatican to protect clergy from coercion, according to a report by Catholic news media. A number of priests in the Yujiang diocese have been forbidden from “engaging Read more
Gloria.tv reports — The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith concluded in August that baptisms administered according to the formula “We baptise you” are invalid. However before, another Vatican Congregation gave advice to the contrary. An undersecretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship declared in a 2003 letter to Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com — Parents of so-called LGBT children who are seeking to revise Church teaching on sexuality met Pope Francis at his Wednesday audience pleading for “full inclusion.” A Protestant pro-LGBT book promoted by Project Jonathan “The Pope loves your children as they are because Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com — Pope Francis ratcheted up his climate change alarmism to apocalyptic levels at his Wednesday public audience, warning that “two great glaciers in Antarctica near the Amundsen Sea” are “about to fall.” Pope Francis greeting youths at his Wednesday audience “It will be terrible Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com — A prominent Catholic apologist has sparked an explosive debate after he evaded a charged question asking whether the Catechism was right to affirm that Muslims “together with us [Catholics] adore the one, merciful God.” Vatican II’s teaching on Islam is under renewed scrutiny Read more
“Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” (Jn 3:5) Part I: Moral certainty and conditional baptism 1. The sacrament of baptism is necessary for salvation. Baptism is “the outward washing of Read more