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Bishop Athanasius Schneider

Archbishop prohibits priests from ‘performing any form of blessing’ of same-sex couples in response to new Vatican declaration

December 19, 2023

Rome — A metropolitan archbishop has become the first prelate to issue guidance to his flock on the Vatican’s declaration allowing same-sex blessings. In it he firmly prohibits priests and faithful from accepting or performing any form of blessing of couples in an irregular situation and same-sex couples. In a statement dated December 19, and

The five bishops are surely not alone in being concerned about Communion

January 04, 2018

A silent majority of bishops agree, but one can appreciate why they haven't spoken out

Five bishops reaffirm traditional teaching on Communion

January 03, 2018

Former US nuncio Archbishop Vigano joined the Kazakhstan bishops in an apparent response to Pope Francis

Bishop Schneider: priests must resist pressure on Communion for remarried

September 21, 2017

Bishop Schneider said that priests should 'lovingly and respectfully' tell their superiors that they cannot abandon the Church's perennial teaching

Kazakhstan, outpost of Catholic orthodoxy

January 25, 2017

The country has become a bastion of doctrinal traditionalism. Its traumatic history may be part of the explanation

Morning Catholic must-reads: 05/01/17

January 05, 2017

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/12/16

December 07, 2016

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Catholics everywhere should be grateful for the four cardinals’ appeal

November 24, 2016

Abandoning a belief in absolute moral norms would be a catastrophe for the Church