Last week, the report from the Pennsylvania Grand Jury described the abuse by hundreds of Roman Catholic priests of well over a thousand victims, and the systematic ecclesial covering up of the abuse. This week Pope Francis has responded with a Letter to the People of God (full text). The systemic issue will need more
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Pope Francis certainly stirred things up last week by changing the teaching in the Roman Catholic Catechism on the death penalty. It is now inadmissible in all situations. Some saw it as a great distraction from Cardinal Theodore McCarrick bringing the RC Church into the headlines for all the wrong reasons. [Others had tried different
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Pope Francis has put the teleological cat amongst the deontological pigeons. If you are not interested in what is right and what is wrong – don’t read on. If you are, and the words in italics are not clear to you, read on: all will be clear by the end of the post. I hope.
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Many will be praying for and following the third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops meeting in the Vatican at the moment (5 to 19 October) on the topic: The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization. This is in preparation for the 14th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod
There is already much comment about the consultation Pope Francis has initiated in preparation for next year’s Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in Rome. I have been predicting/hoping for traction to Vatican II’s call for Roman Catholic bishops to take more appropriate local leadership rather than being seen merely as local representatives of the Pope. My
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I have been writing a series about taking care when claiming, “The Bible says…” So far I have written about Textual Criticism The Septuagint (LXX) Hebrew vowel pointing The canon In the background, many will have been aware, is the presence of Roman Catholicism with its solution to issues arising. So this might be a
[Update – this post was written prior to the apostolic constitution’s publication. After reading this post, you can go to the post written after its publication] I have been promising a third post on Pope Benedict XVI’s Anglican Ordinariates. First post Second post Anglican Ordinariates Those who have been putting a positive spin on the
Ordinary Anglicans? Read More »
July 25 1968 Pope Paul VI published his Encyclical letter Humanae Vitae.
His commissions, set up in response to the development of oral contraceptives in the 60s, came out more than 2/3 in favour of accepting such contraceptives amongst the bishops, and more than ¾ in favour amongst theologians and other specialists.
Pope Paul VI rejected the advice of his commission because this did not come to the conclusion that he did.
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