Diane Montagna, Author at Catholic Herald

Diane Montagna

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

Mercy strikes again: the unjust treatment of Cardinal Burke

December 15, 2023

ROME – The cardinals are originally, and still ceremonially, the clergy of the Church of Rome: the bishops of the suffragan dioceses, the parish priests, and the deacons attendant upon the Roman Pontiff. Most cardinals are cardinal priests. The word “priest” means “elder”, like the Latin word “senator”, and the cardinals have often been compared

Cardinal Sarah: ‘The crisis of the Church has entered a new phase’

November 09, 2023

ROME – In a rare intervention, Cardinal Robert Sarah has said that “the crisis of the Church has entered a new phase: the crisis of the Magisterium.” Speaking to a standing-room only crowd on 26 October in Rome, at the launch of Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s new book “Credo: Compendium of the Catholic Faith” (Sophia Press,

‘Confused and confusing’: Cardinal Zen talks to the Herald about his ongoing Synod concerns

October 14, 2023

ROME – Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, the former bishop of Hong Kong, has become seen in recent years as something of a Confessor — one who has suffered but not (yet) died for the Faith. He has had well-documented difficulties with China’s Communist authorities, which have seen him in recent years charged under new security

Clash of the Prefects: An Olympian struggle between two opposed theological visions

October 01, 2023

Clash of the Titans is a nearly 50-year-old fantasy action film based on ancient Greek mythology. Since 2013, quite a few Catholics have reported the sensation of being trapped in a remake of the 1970s. Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is a giant of a man

Cardinal Burke drops bombshell on Synod of ‘ideology’ and ‘schism’

August 22, 2023

ROME – Cardinal Gerhard Müller has called it a “hostile takeover” of the Catholic Church. The late Cardinal George Pell termed it a “toxic nightmare”. Now, Cardinal Raymond Burke has written a foreword to a new book denouncing the Synod on Synodality as a “Pandora’s Box” that threatens to unleash grave harm on the Mystical

The Fernández kiss of death?

August 02, 2023

This controversial appointment could lead to more headaches at the Vatican. The appointment of Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández as the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) has caused considerable consternation in Rome and abroad. In certain quarters, this centres around his alleged departures from Catholic orthodoxy. More popularly, however,

Episcopal hierarchy, not lay democracy: Bishop Schneider appeals to Pope Francis to rescind new synod norms

July 03, 2023

Bishop Athanasius Schneider is appealing to Pope Francis to rescind new norms that grant equal voting rights to bishops and laity at the October 2023 Synod on Synodality in Rome, saying they are a “radical novelty” that undermine the Church by “conforming it more to a Protestant or even secular model”. The norms, issued on April

Bishop Schneider: Pope Francis’s synodal reform is undermining the Church

June 08, 2023

In this exclusive interview, Bishop Schneider also clarifies the nature of a Synod of Bishops as envisioned by Pope Paul VI, discusses what he believes Paul VI would say to the October 2023 assembly, and calls on the Cardinals to act and not remain passive “as the Church is harmed, and the salvation of souls is jeopardized”.

Humanae Vitae: have the first shots been fired in a coming war?

May 21, 2023

Italy’s current birthrate is 392,598 newborns per year, a staggering 30 percent drop since 2008, unsustainably low for any country. To avert catastrophe Italy must reach 500,000 newborns annually by 2033. Ever since his “Catholics shouldn’t breed like rabbits” comment in 2015, Pope Francis has not been popularly perceived as a person sympathetic to pro-natalist

‘Rise, Peter’: Consternation as German bishops endorse blessings of homosexual unions

April 02, 2023

“Rise, Peter, and fulfil this pastoral office divinely entrusted to you,” exclaimed Pope Leo X in 1520 in the face of the errors of Martin Luther. It was, he lamented, particularly saddening that such error should have arisen in Germany, when its people are so naturally “germane to the Catholic faith”. As the present author

Letter from Rome: the Roche rescript comes with all the zeal of Saul the Pharisee

February 24, 2023

Still breathing threats against the Church’s ancient liturgy with a zeal reminiscent of Saul the Pharisee in Acts 9:1, Cardinal Arthur Roche has now begun strong-arming bishops to “ensure the correct application” of Pope Francis’s 2021 apostolic letter restricting the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), Traditionis Custodes.

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