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Germans split over Pope Francis on AmazonLack of courage?

Germans split over Pope Francis on Amazon
Lack of courage?

German Church leaders have offered markedly distinct responses to Querida Amazonia, the apostolic exhortation on the Amazon region released by Pope Francis Feb. 12. Catholic officials in Germany paid close attention to the 2019 Vatican synod that

Germans split over Pope Francis on Amazon
Lack of courage?Jim Holman2020-02-13T07:42:30-08:00

Ratzinger a barking ideologue – no wayBishop Barron takes apart 'The Two Popes'

Ratzinger a barking ideologue – no way
Bishop Barron takes apart 'The Two Popes'

The new and much-ballyhooed Netflix film The Two Popes should, by rights, be called The One Pope, for it presents a fairly nuanced, textured, and sympathetic portrait of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) and a complete caricature of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope

Ratzinger a barking ideologue – no way
Bishop Barron takes apart 'The Two Popes'Jim Holman2020-01-31T14:28:53-08:00

Father Fessio’s EWTN interview on ‘From the Depths of Our Hearts’Addresses issue of whether book is anti-Pope Francis

Father Fessio’s EWTN interview on ‘From the Depths of Our Hearts’
Addresses issue of whether book is anti-Pope Francis

Father Joseph Fessio of Ignatius Press, who is the publisher of the English-language version of From the Depths of Our Hearts by Cardinal Robert Sarah and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, gave an interview to EWTN on

Father Fessio’s EWTN interview on ‘From the Depths of Our Hearts’
Addresses issue of whether book is anti-Pope FrancisJim Holman2020-01-19T09:29:32-08:00

Weigel cuts through the Martini curveThose churches trying desperately to catch up are collapsing

Weigel cuts through the Martini curve
Those churches trying desperately to catch up are collapsing

Pope Francis concluded his pre-Christmas address to the Roman Curia by invoking the memory of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, SJ, who died in September 2012. The Holy Father recalled that, “in his last interview, a few

Weigel cuts through the Martini curve
Those churches trying desperately to catch up are collapsingJim Holman2020-01-12T05:41:29-08:00

“Christendom no longer exists!”Pope Francis warns against rigidity as Church undergoes a period of epochal change

“Christendom no longer exists!”
Pope Francis warns against rigidity as Church undergoes a period of epochal change

In his annual Christmas address, Pope Francis advised the Vatican civil service not to allow “rigidity” to get in the way of “epochal change.”

In his Dec. 21 address to the Curia, the

“Christendom no longer exists!”
Pope Francis warns against rigidity as Church undergoes a period of epochal changeEmily Morris2019-12-26T10:17:59-08:00

The Two Popes movie – all that is politically correctYou could get up and leave

The Two Popes movie – all that is politically correct
You could get up and leave

The Daily Compass watched the Netflix movie, The Two Popes. Read this and you won’t need to watch it: it is ideological, ridiculous and a cheap shot at painting Benedict XVI as a decrepit man and

The Two Popes movie – all that is politically correct
You could get up and leaveJim Holman2019-12-25T07:31:04-08:00

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

…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 him the “popular movements.” He has done it three times so far: the first time

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

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 And For A Holistic Ecology.” The crudity of its j’accuse against the developed world disfigures

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

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 newspaper Die Welt. Asked if

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?

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 dollars. The fund is

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

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City attorney comes after Archbishop Cordileone

Comment:
As I’ve noted before, the cathedral seats 2,400 persons. For Herrera to go after Archbishop Cordileone if he celebrates Mass with a dozen others is outrageous and political. There is no basis in public health or any science for the magical number of 12. Masses I’ve attended in the archdiocese have had limited capacity, social distancing and persons were masked and not singing. Of course, the priest (and deacon) and reader (when reading) and cantor (when singing) are not masked, but they’re far from each other and the congregation. Might Christians, Jews and others in San Francisco be permitted to have more than 12 if they put signs in front calling themselves WalMart, The Dollar Store, daycare centers, marijuana dispensaries or an “autonomous zone?”

– Deacon Craig Anderson