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Cardinal Fernández prepares document on gender ideology

January 17, 2024

The Vatican is preparing a document on the ideology of gender, the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has said. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández made the revelation in an interview with the Spanish news agency EFE. “We are preparing a very important document on human dignity that not only includes social

Vatican issues ‘clarification’ on same-sex blessings amid Fiducia Supplicans backlash

January 04, 2024

ROME – Less than a month after issuing an instruction outlining the reasoning and method for giving non-liturgical blessings to same-sex couples and those in irregular unions, the Vatican has published a clarification amid a flurry of backlash and confusion. In a 4 January press release, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

Don’t give up on the Church – and certainly not because of Fiducia Supplicans

December 24, 2023

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat and a lot of Catholics are arguing after the release of Fiducia Supplicans. Welcome to the contentious end of 2023! Back in 2018 I was at a Catholic event and ran into Austen Ivereigh, the Catholic journalist, author and biographer of Pope Francis. I explained to him that

Fiducia Supplicans: an exercise in smoke and mirrors, where spin becomes substance and appearance reality

December 21, 2023

St John Henry Newman once considered the possibility of the crisis that would emerge if a Church council or a pope introduced a doctrine that contradicted a previous council or a pope. It would shatter the notion of doctrinal development. At first sight the recent document Fiducia Supplicans suggests that this might have happened. Commentators have been

Pope’s end-of-year address to Church hierarchy: beware ‘rigid ideological positions’ that ‘prevent us from moving forward’

December 21, 2023

ROME – In his annual Christmas address to members of the Roman Curia, Pope Francis urged the Church’s governing bureaucracy to be open to change and to resist “rigid ideological positions” that prevent them from moving forward. Speaking to members of the curia during a 21 December audience, Pope Francis stressed the need to “remain

UK’s Confraternity of Catholic Clergy publishes letter reaffirming traditional Church teaching after Fiducia Supplicans

December 21, 2023

An organisation representing some 500 priests in Britain has released a signed letter reaffirming the Church’s teaching regarding marriage and same-sex unions after “widespread confusion” following the Fiducia Supplicans declaration released by the Vatican. The letter’s signatories at the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy explain they felt “impelled to re-assert the traditional teaching of the Catholic

No, the Church has not changed her doctrine on the liceity or blessing of same-sex unions

December 20, 2023

The Vatican’s latest declaration bombshell, authored by one of the most senior clerics in the Roman Curia, has duped the international press and its readers alike into believing that the Catholic Church has softened its position on homosexuality. It hasn’t. In describing how sinners, who may be in a same-same relationship, may ask for a

‘I want to shout to the world that I’m innocent’ convicted Cardinal tells TV show

December 19, 2023

ROME — In his first major media engagement since being convicted of financial crimes by a Vatican tribunal and sentenced to five and a half years in prison, Cardinal Angelo Becciu appeared on an Italian TV show proclaiming his innocence. “I’m going to do everything I can, everything to demonstrate my innocence through the legal