Cardinal Angelo Scola: Communion for the remarried contradicts Church teaching
Cardinal Angelo Scola, a prominent cardinal who in 2013 was the bookies’ favourite to become Pope, has re-entered the controversy over Communion for the remarried.
An attempt to clarify significance of pope’s letter to Argentine bishops
Some three months ago I predicted that Pope Francis’ letter to the Argentine bishops, approving their implementation of Amoris laetitia, would make its way into the Acta Apostolicae Sedis. Now it has. An accompanying note from Cardinal Parolin
Rewriting the history of two synods?
The following comes from a December 17 The Catholic Thing article by Fr. Gerald E. Murray: The now famous dubia sent to Pope Francis by Cardinal Burke and three of his fellow
Some Catholics are ‘unnerved’ by current events in the Church, says Cardinal Pell
The following comes from a November 29 Catholic Herald article by Dan Hitchens: Cardinal George Pell has said that “a number of regularly worshipping Catholics” are “unnerved by the turn of events”
Amoris Laetitia does not allow Communion for remarried, says Bishop of Phoenix
The following comes from a September 22 Catholic Herald article: Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix, Arizona, has said the divorced and remarried cannot receive Communion, and that the teaching of St John
The pope’s not a heretic
The following comes is September 13 Catholic Culture article by Dr. Jeff Mirus: According to news reports, Pope Francis has commended the bishops of Argentina for recognizing that Amoris Laetitia permits Communion for
The elephant in the communion line
The following comes from an April 21 Aleteia article by Judy Landrieu Klein: The entire time the discussion has ensued over divorced and remarried Catholics being admitted to Holy Communion, there have been
No doctrine change from Pope Francis
The following comes from an April 8 Catholic News Agency article: Pope Francis’ highly anticipated post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the gifts and challenges of family life was published April 8.