A number of bishops have begun pushing back against an effort to endow local Church bodies with authority over doctrine, warning that this would lead to a splintering of the Church’s teaching.
Archbishop Jaime Spengler, the president of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council (CELAM), confirmed that the Amazon rite and Indigenous inculturation of the liturgy are taking place in his native Brazil. In addition, Spengler urged the church to remain “open” to the idea of married clergy.
A comprehensive statistical report on Catholicism this week reveals growth where the Church is vibrantly orthodox and decline where it has fallen into worldly liberalism.
The formidable Cardinal Joseph Zen asks in a recent letter to his brother bishops why the Catholic Church would embark on a path of “synodality” when it has delivered such terrible results in Germany.
ROME — Kazakh Bishop Athanasius Schneider has joined the many Catholic prelates warning of nefarious plotting behind the scenes of the upcoming Vatican “Synod on Synodality.”
Pope Francis has enlisted the help of sympathetic journalists to help him put a positive spin on the upcoming “synod on synodality” after several prominent cardinals have criticized the event.
Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former head of the Vatican’s highest court, warns in a new book that a move toward “synodality” is causing “evident and grave harm” to the Church.
An ongoing exodus from the Catholic Church in Germany has produced a financial and membership crisis, a new report asserts.
Papal biographer George Weigel has warned that the “synodal way” undertaken by the German Catholic bishops looks eerily like a second Protestant reformation.
Australian Cardinal George Pell has blasted the Catholic Church’s synodal way as “hostile” to the apostolic tradition in a posthumous essay published Wednesday in the Spectator.
Australian Cardinal George Pell has warned that the wayward Catholic Church in Germany will only grow worse without serious corrections from Rome.
Pope Francis has once again criticized traditionalist Catholics as woefully stuck in the past and dangerously opposed to change.
The Vatican sought to rein in the unruly German Catholic “Synodal Way” Thursday, declaring it has no authority to enact “new approaches to doctrine and morals” contrary to those of the universal Church.
The liberal Catholic Church in Germany seems to be taking steps toward a schism with Rome under the banner of “synodality,” according to veteran Vatican observers.
