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Vatican urges ‘moratorium’ on German church reform process

In what was described as a “frank” discussion in Rome Friday between Vatican department heads and German bishops over their contested “Synodal Path” reforms, a proposal to cease and desist the process was made and rejected.

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Behind the scenes and between the lines: Cardinals debate laity, power, synodality

Almost 200 cardinals answered the call to the extraordinary consistory in August 2022. / Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Aug 31, 2022 / 07:41 am (CNA).
There were no press conferences, reports, or sensational announcements at the end of the e…

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Pope spends 2021 looking after his health; advocating for environment

[Editors note: This is part two of Crux Rome Bureau Chief Inés San Martín’s look back at 2021. Part one was devoted to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Catholic Church.] ROSARIO, Argentina – Taking advantage of being relatively cooped up in the Vatican due to the ongoing […]

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Traditionis Custodes: When “professional Catholic” squabbling spills over

For millions of Catholics around the world who find comfort in the traditional Latin Mass, the fights of the rectory and professional Catholic class have once again struck them at home.

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Pope Francis and Cardinal Marx Do a Dance

Whatever Cardinal Marx’s reasons for submitting his resignation, Pope Francis’s rejection of it makes the whole thing to appear thoroughly managed — orchestrated — choreographed.

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Big Trouble in Little Knoxville: Misconduct cases bring systemic, cultural weaknesses into sharp focus

There is a good deal more to the stories discussed here in broad strokes – likely more than enough to trigger a Vos estis investigation – and there is also more than enough in each, to trigger the desire of leading Churchmen to keep things tightly under wraps.

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Cardinal Marx submits resignation as Archbishop of Munich

“With my resignation,” Cardinal Marx wrote, “I would like to make it clear that I am willing to personally bear responsibility not only for any mistakes I might have made, but for the Church as an institution which I have helped to shape and mould over the past decades.”

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Crime & Punishment: Church leaders’ disastrous refusal to abandon secrecy

The secrecy of the Church’s judicial processes hurts the innocent, while the opacity of her general practices tends to protect evildoers. Together, the Church’s secrecy and opacity undermine public confidence in  her ability to deliver anything like justice.

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The “new” synodal “process” is under-thought and oversold

If the incongruity of making the Church more synodalitous by papal diktat ever occurred to him, neither he nor his lieutenants and mouthpieces have given any evidence of it.

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Ecuadorian bishops circle wagons after resignation of Riobamba bishop, coadjutor

Eduardo Campos Limareports that the bishop at the centre of the controversy says he is leaving Ecuador and returning to his native Spain with clear conscience.

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