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Aid to the Church in Need offers COVID relief to Congo’s nuns, priests

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For over 20 years, eastern Congo been beset by war and conflict, with rival gangs fighting for control over the region’s rich mineral resources. While other aid organizations and NGOs have fled the area as a result of rising insecurity, religious sisters have remained.

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If Francis really wants women deacons, this seems an odd way to go about it

by | Apr 9, 2020 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

The pontiff acted Tuesday on one of the recommendations of the recent Synod of Bishops for the Amazon by creating – for the second time in four years – a commission to study whether women might be ordained as deacons.

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Celibacy Is a Gift to Priests—and the Laity

by | Mar 19, 2020 | , , , , , , , | 0 |

Few books have caused so much controversy even before they were published than did From the Depths of Our Hearts, a new defense of clerical celibacy in the Roman Church by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Robert Cardinal Sarah. On January 14, Benedict’s private secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, told the Italian news agency ANSA that, […]

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Francis vs. the Deep Church

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Does the Vatican have a General Directorate for Personnel? This is, perhaps, the most boring question ever posed by a writer in Crisis Magazine. And yet, as we fumble for an answer, we also come a little closer to understanding one of the most confounding papacies in 2,000 years of Christian history. Last Friday, the […]

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The Pope Is Still Catholic

by | Feb 13, 2020 | , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Yesterday, the Holy Father did something completely unexpected: nothing at all. In his long-awaited exhortation on the Amazon Synod, Querida Amazonia, we find the clearest insight into Pope Francis’s thinking on the vocations crisis, both in the Amazon and across the Western world. His solution is not to do away with clerical celibacy. It is […]

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Amazonia Dreaming

by | Feb 13, 2020 | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Robert Royal: Despite ambiguity in the pope’s post-synodal Exhortation, there are no doctrinal changes. An olive branch to tradition or a strategic retreat?

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Querida Amazonia – What Does it Say About Priestly Celibacy?

by | Feb 12, 2020 | , , , , , , | 0 |

Let’s put the thing everyone wants to know right out in front: no, the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Querida Amazonia does not, within its text, explicitly provide for the ordination of “viri probati” — married men, likely married permanent deacons — to the […]

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