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Vatican warns German bishops of ‘legal consequences’ over disputed ‘Synodal Committee’
February 19, 2024
ROME – As the German bishops meet this week to advance their national reform process, the Vatican has threatened canonical action if they refuse to comply with an order to halt a vote on the statutes of a controversial new committee that had previously been disapproved. As part of their current Feb. 19-22 general assembly
Cardinal Müller and Cardinal Burke rebuke German bishops over same-sex marriage vote
March 18, 2023
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller and Cardinal Raymond Burke have rebuked bishops who voted in favour of Church blessings for same-sex unions at a meeting of the German ‘Synodal Way’ on Friday.   In an interview with Raymond Arroyo of EWTN, German Cardinal Müller, who served as the Prefect for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith for
Vatican issues final ‘stop sign’ on German Synodal Path
January 25, 2023
Two of Germany’s top canon lawyers have explained that the German Synodal Path must now end following a letter from Pope Francis to German bishops expressly stopping them from establishing a “permanent synodal council”. Running to four pages, the letter states that German bishops do not have the authority to establish a permament synodal council
Something sinister about the Synod (with Cardinal George Pell)
January 12, 2023
“What weight do we give to the teaching of Jesus Christ and the Apostles?” In the second episode of our Merely Catholic podcast series Dr Gavin Ashenden spoke to the late Cardinal George Pell about dangers inherent in conforming to contemporary fads and ideologies. Bishops presiding over the German Synodal Path would be embarking on
Is the Catholic Church becoming more democratic?
September 02, 2022
Does the Synod on Synodality herald a new era of democracy, even as Chinese involvement in bishop-selection undermines papal power
Go woke, go broke: why Irish Church’s liberal turn should be treated with caution
August 16, 2022
Hot on the heels of the Catholic Church’s liberal drift in Germany, it seems the Catholic Church in Ireland – once the defining feature of Irish identity – is following the German model in terms of liberal drift. On Monday, the Catholic Church in Ireland sent a synthesis of 26 diocesan reports seeking reforms to
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