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October 18, 2022

As a young Catholic in the 1970s I was repeatedly told that the Second Vatican Council was at best a tragic mistake fuelled by a naïve enthusiasm rooted in the euphoria of the 1960s, or, more likely, a series of interwoven plots orchestrated by sinister forces within the Vatican. As things developed, a mantra often repeated

Is the Synodal Way a hostile take-over of the Church?

October 18, 2022

Of all the voices raised in warning about an imminent coup threatening the Catholic Church, former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith Gerhard Cardinal Müller’s might have been thought to be the least likely. The unequivocal language he resorted to in his warning of what he believed was a de facto “Vatican