Confusion follows confusion. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith sent a press release on January 4 to explain Fiducia Supplicans  – the declaration from the curial outfit that used to be the papacy’s stable doctrinal oversight department – which came as an early Christmas surprise and appeared not only to allow [...]

The bang at the end of calendar year 2023 is still reverberating, and will continue to cause commotion well into 2024. I’m talking about the “early Christmas present” from Pope Francis through his chief teaching department and its new-ish prefect, Cardinal Victor Manuel “Tucho” Fernandez.

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faiths’ declaration [...]

As early as 2017, the Italian website Campari & De Maistre highlighted the possibility of schism. They noted, however, that the danger of division wasn’t to be found in Germany, despite all the pressure already coming from the German Church. Instead, we were to look for danger coming from Latin America.

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Pope Francis is rushing to establish his legacy. At least, he appears more and more to be in a rush to leave a legacy. A great book in many languages on his life and the historical events that characterized it has already been announced, with a marketing push that is really unprecedented for a [...]

On the eve of the week in which the so-called “trial of the century” in the Vatican should end, Pope Francis receives Archbishop Michel Aupetit, emeritus of Paris, who was forced to resign two years ago. Pope Francis had accepted his resignation “on the altar of hypocrisy,” he explained to journalists on the [...]

The news circulating about possible sanctions against Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, guilty of being an “enemy” of the Pope, has yet to receive official confirmation. The sources – more than one, including papal biographer Austen Ivereigh – have it that Pope Francis himself announced them, starting with a salary cut (more likely, the so-called [...]

Pope Francis’ response to four former delegates of the German “Synodal Way” has once again highlighted Pope Francis’s concern regarding the path undertaken by the Church of Germany. A concern shared in the Vatican, so much so that the risk of schism is often raised. From a certain point of view, however, Pope [...]

Since Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez has been prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Dicastery’s website has made public several answers given on behalf of Pope Francis to questions arriving from all over the world, from the dubia of five cardinals to the request of a Filipino bishop on what [...]

There will be more theologians and canonists among the members of the second stage of the Synod of Bishops, which will be held next October. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi said this during a meeting in Bologna on the forty years of the promulgation of the Code of Canon Law, and it is an interesting fact. [...]

In the tenth year of his pontificate, Pope Francis has concretely defined what he believes should be a cultural revolution within the Church, that is, a paradigm shift in the study of theology. Thus, not even a week after the end of the Synod, faced with a heavily amended final text that demonstrated the [...]