Fr Raymond de Souza, Author at Catholic Herald

Fr Raymond de Souza

Fr Raymond J de Souza: The pontifical secret after Viganò

September 06, 2018

Whatever the truth or falsity of the claims made by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in his “testimony” calling for the resignation of Pope Francis, it is indisputable that he spectacularly violated the pontifical secret he swore an oath to keep. That is an earthquake for the Vatican diplomatic corps and the Roman Curia. The “pontifical

After Viganò’s testimony, the ‘pontifical secret’ will never be the same again

September 05, 2018

The archbishop said his conscience urged him to break with normal practice

Fr Raymond J de Souza: A diplomat sparks a war

August 30, 2018

The blistering indictment of Pope Francis by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, published while the Holy Father was on a difficult trip to Ireland, is such a novelty that it will take time to digest properly. For any prelate, let alone a former apostolic nuncio, to call for the Pope’s resignation is certainly shocking. That a

The Viganò letter could spark a conflagration in the curia

August 27, 2018

Its tone may be intemperate, but the claims must be seriously investigated

Pope Francis’s letter on abuse contained much of value. Don’t write it off

August 23, 2018

We cannot ignore the spiritual aspect of the crisis and the need for penance

Fr Raymond J de Souza: From bureaucrats to penitents

August 23, 2018

In this summer of shame, how should bishops speak about scandals of sexual predation in the clergy? There have been some remarkable failures. Cardinal Donald Wuerl launched a special website praising his own record while Bishop of Pittsburgh in the light of criticism from the Pennsylvania grand jury report. That went over so badly that

Has the Vatican forgotten St John Paul II’s great encyclical on moral life?

August 18, 2018

Veritatis Splendor was not referenced once in nearly 400 notes accompanying Amoris Laetitia. It cannot be ignored

Fr Raymond J de Souza: The erased encyclical

August 16, 2018

Last week, on the 25th anniversary of Veritatis Splendor, I looked at how St John Paul’s encyclical of 1993 took up the challenges created in the aftermath of Humanae Vitae 25 years earlier. Blessed Paul VI went to his grave 40 years ago this month secure in the knowledge that he had “not betrayed the

How Paul VI and John Paul II defended moral truth

August 09, 2018

In Veritatis Splendor, John Paul II gave an uncompromising defence of Humanae Vitae

Fr Raymond J de Souza: Two teachers of moral truth

August 09, 2018

August 6th is probably the most common date of secular significance put to homiletic use. Preachers for that day’s feast of the Transfiguration are apt to compare the light of Christ, which transfigures unto glory, with the light seen in Hiroshima on 6th August 1945, when for the first time came that light which disfigures

Is the Vatican giving a promotion to laypeople?

August 04, 2018

What a Vatican reshuffle shows about its attitude to the laity

Fr Raymond J de Souza: A promotion for lay people

August 02, 2018

It was thirty years ago this summer that St John Paul II promulgated Pastor Bonus, his reorganization of the Roman Curia, completing the curial reforms started by Blessed Paul VI in the years after the Council. Pope Francis sought to update those measures, and his own curial reform has been underway for five years, notably

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