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The political vision of Pope FrancisThe time has come to make a leap

The political vision of Pope Francis
The time has come to make a leap

Tim Cook of Apple with the Holy Father at the Vatican (Photo from YouTube) ...According to Bergoglio, “it takes a myth to understand the people.” And he has recounted this myth, as pope, above all when he called around

The political vision of Pope Francis
The time has come to make a leapJim Holman2019-12-13T15:39:20-08:00

Amazon Synod attacks fossil fuels, plastics, Western eating habitsVatican veers near enthusiasm for blood and soil

Amazon Synod attacks fossil fuels, plastics, Western eating habits
Vatican veers near enthusiasm for blood and soil

Pachamamma idols in Rome: "theology with an Amazonian face" (Photo from Catholic World Report) The Vatican’s Amazon Synod is done. But its mischief lives on in the ideological distortions of its final document, “Amazonia: New Ways For The Church

Amazon Synod attacks fossil fuels, plastics, Western eating habits
Vatican veers near enthusiasm for blood and soilJim Holman2019-12-13T15:21:27-08:00

Pope Benedict XVI “the deepest thinker”So says filmmaker Werner Herzog

Pope Benedict XVI “the deepest thinker”
So says filmmaker Werner Herzog

Benedict XVI at the German Bundestag in 2011 Werner Herzog, the well-known film director and film legend [Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1978), Fitzcarraldo (1982)], praised Benedict XVI in a December 7 interview with German

Pope Benedict XVI “the deepest thinker”
So says filmmaker Werner HerzogJim Holman2019-12-11T10:28:15-08:00

Peter’s Pence money ends up behind Elton John biopicWhat were Vatican officials thinking?

Peter’s Pence money ends up behind Elton John biopic
What were Vatican officials thinking?

From Rocketman trailer A fund in which the Vatican’s Secretariat of State has invested tens of millions of euros has links to two Swiss banks investigated or implicated in bribery and money laundering scandals involving more than one billion

Peter’s Pence money ends up behind Elton John biopic
What were Vatican officials thinking?Jim Holman2019-12-09T13:16:41-08:00

Cardinal Zen blunt on Vatican secretaries of stateCardinal Jozef Tomko was effective

Cardinal Zen blunt on Vatican secretaries of state
Cardinal Jozef Tomko was effective

Cardinal Zen: Pope "doesn’t answer my letters." (Photo from AsiaNews.it) Cardinal Joseph Zen has described Vatican policy toward China as “terrible, terrible, terrible” in a new interview. Cardinal Zen said that he strongly suspects that a diplomatic agreement between

Cardinal Zen blunt on Vatican secretaries of state
Cardinal Jozef Tomko was effectiveJim Holman2019-12-06T10:07:03-08:00

Bergoglio, the young PeronistRetired bishop Gracida cites Sandro Magister on pope's closeness to Bolivian ex-president Morales

Bergoglio, the young Peronist
Retired bishop Gracida cites Sandro Magister on pope's closeness to Bolivian ex-president Morales

Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with crucifix on hammer and sickle, 2015. (Photo from NBC News) In Argentina, the student and labor uprisings flared up shortly after those in Paris or Los Angeles, in 1969, the year in which

Bergoglio, the young Peronist
Retired bishop Gracida cites Sandro Magister on pope's closeness to Bolivian ex-president MoralesJim Holman2019-11-15T12:11:23-08:00

Papal nuncio lectures U.S. bishopsAdopting missionary impulse is barometer of communion with the pope

Papal nuncio lectures U.S. bishops
Adopting missionary impulse is barometer of communion with the pope

The apostolic nuncio to the United States told the nation’s bishops that their commitment to evangelization is the measure of their communion with Pope Francis. Archbishop Christoph Pierre addressed the bishops during the opening session of the USCCB general

Papal nuncio lectures U.S. bishops
Adopting missionary impulse is barometer of communion with the popeEmily Morris2019-11-12T09:23:24-08:00

Former papal nuncio Vigano goes after PachamamaWatch video of man who tossed idol into the Tiber

Former papal nuncio Vigano goes after Pachamama
Watch video of man who tossed idol into the Tiber

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is urging the re-consecration of St. Peter’s Basilica, in light of what he calls “the appalling idolatrous profanations” that have been committed in its walls through the veneration of the Pachamama statue. In a Nov. 6

Former papal nuncio Vigano goes after Pachamama
Watch video of man who tossed idol into the TiberJim Holman2019-11-08T07:17:29-08:00

Who’s in favor of women deacons?In first for a U.S. bishop, San Diego's Robert McElroy declares himself sympathetic to the idea

Who’s in favor of women deacons?
In first for a U.S. bishop, San Diego's Robert McElroy declares himself sympathetic to the idea

San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy said he supports allowing women to serve as deacons in the Catholic Church, in what appears as the first such public disclosure of a U.S. prelate since Pope Francis reopened consideration of the history

Who’s in favor of women deacons?
In first for a U.S. bishop, San Diego's Robert McElroy declares himself sympathetic to the ideaEmily Morris2019-10-29T14:46:33-07:00

Not a surpriseRecommendation to allow married priests passes Amazon Synod by vote of 128-41

Not a surprise
Recommendation to allow married priests passes Amazon Synod by vote of 128-41

The meeting for the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region has approved a final document which calls for the ordination of married men as priests and for women to be considered for diaconal ordination. One of the document’s

Not a surprise
Recommendation to allow married priests passes Amazon Synod by vote of 128-41Emily Morris2019-10-28T07:50:01-07:00

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Comment:
What a radical (relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough) idea! If the reproductive system is related to reproduction, who knows what’s next? Maybe the digestive system is related to digestion and nourishment (and not only pleasure). Natural law has not been, actually, cannot be, repealed. God always forgives, humans sometimes forgive, nature never forgives.

– Deacon Craig Anderson