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by bcadmin | Sep 19, 2022 | Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, Cardinals, lead, News, News Analysis, papal almoner, Papal conclave, Security, Ukraine | 0 |
Call such behavior what you want: Tenacity, the courage of the Gospel, foolhardiness, an adrenaline junkie seeking a fix, whatever. You still have to stand in awe at the sheer bravado of it all.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, Cardinals, Consistory, lead, News, Papal conclave, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, a once influential conservative prelate known to be at odds with several aspects of the Francis papacy, has asked that the right to vote in a conclave be limited to only those residing in Rome.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Consistory, lead, News, News Analysis, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Papal conclave, papal resignation, Ukraine | 0 |
As much as papal politics may fascinate pundits and church affairs junkies, there’s a broad swath of the global Catholic population for whom they’re likely to seem irrelevant at best, and maybe even willfully oblivious to reality.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | lead, News, News Analysis, Papal conclave, Vatican | 0 |
Most of those other bits of alleged wisdom are at least partly bunk, so there’s no special reason to believe the one about Americans holds much water either.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 18, 2022 | Church History, Featured, News, Papacy, Papal conclave, pope nicholas ii | 0 |
In an age when the Pope is treated as a news item on a daily basis, as if he were just another secular leader, it is easy for us to take the papacy for granted. Yet, this unique institution should be seen by Catholics as something entirely different: first, as Christ’s restoration of the Davidic […]
by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | lead, Media, News, News Analysis, Papal conclave, Papal health, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II | 0 |
Executives from TV networks are finalizing contracts for locations and personnel for the “big show,” and journalists are dusting off papal obituaries and handicapping lists of papal candidates.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 17, 2022 | Cardinals, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal conclave, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II | 0 |
Even seasoned ecclesiastical observers struggle to identify a single cardinal named by the current pope who could be described as part of a “loyal opposition.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 21, 2022 | Benedict XVI, L'Aquila, News, Papal conclave, Pope Francis, The Dispatch, Vatican | 0 |
There’s been a lot of chatter about Pope Francis getting ready to resign, but I’m not buying it — not yet — nor am I convinced either he or his pontificate is running on empty. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2022 | College of Cardinals, News, Papal conclave, papal election, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope Saint John Paul II, The Dispatch | 0 |
Pope Francis’s recent announcement that he will create 21 new cardinals on August 27, 16 of whom would vote in a conclave held after that date, set off the usual flurry of speculations about the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 30, 2022 | Bishop Robert McElroy, Cardinals, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal conclave, Pope Francis | 0 |
With regard to the 21 new cardinals Pope Francis announced Sunday, including 16 under 80 and thus eligible to vote for the next pope, the question appears simultaneously easier and maddeningly more difficult to answer.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 26, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David Warren, descent into hell, Jesus Christ, News, next conclave, Papal conclave, Pope Francis, The Catholic Thing, The Possibility of Normal | 0 |
In a sense, the Church shows more unity when it is breaking down, than when it is not. Whether in…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 30, 2022 | Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal conclave, Polarization, President Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Mario Draghi | 0 |
At some point, the church too will face a decision about who should lead it next, and it’s not at all clear there’s any greater reason to believe consensus will prevail in Catholicism than in the Italian parliament.
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