Columnist: Edward Pentin
Cardinal Müller Warns Bishops About Betraying The Faith
At the IX Pax Liturgica Meeting in Rome today, Cardinal Gerhard Müller warned against bishops betraying their divine mission by relativising doctrine and failing to uphold the orthodox faith. "We ...
Assessing ‘Fiducia Supplicans’: The First 100 Days
March 27 marks 100 days since the Vatican published Fiducia Supplicans, an instruction on blessings of persons in irregular unions. And while the controversy it stirred in the Church in ...
Marking One Month of ‘Fiducia Supplicans’: Opposition Shows No Signs of Abating
One month after the Vatican released Fiducia Supplicans allowing the blessing of same-sex couples, the backlash the document triggered shows no signs of diminishing. The criticism has been so pointed ...
The St Gallen ‘Mafia’ Is The ‘Skeleton Key’ Helping To Unlock Many Riddles of Francis’ Pontificate
Although the “St Gallen Mafia” is well known to most who follow the papacy and the Vatican, the vast majority of Catholics are unlikely to have ever heard of it ...
Accused Serial Sex Abuser Fr. Rupnik Continues to Live a Charmed Life in Rome
The disgraced former Jesuit priest Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, who is accused of “highly credible” accusations of serial abuse, continues to live a normal life in Rome at the art ...
Synod on Synodality: A New Springtime or Pandora’s Box?
Well where to start? Once again we’ve had a month in Rome with plenty of acrimony and contention, lots of heat and, depending on who you speak with, not a ...
Edward Pentin: Understanding the Crisis in the Church and Where We Go From Here
Catholic Identity Conference, Pittsburgh, September 30, 2023 Thanks largely to COVID, it’s been 6 years since I’ve had the honor of speaking at the CIC and as we know, much ...
Pro-Homosexual Clerics Charged with Drafting Final Synod Report
Two “special secretaries,” Jesuit Father Giacomo Costa and Msgr. Riccardo Battocchio, are charged with preparing the Synod document. As well as withholding the names of who is seated in which ...
Cardinal Zen Calls Pope Francis’ ‘Dubia’ Response on Same-Sex Blessings ‘Pastorally Untenable’
Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun has criticized some of Pope Francis’ responses to five dubia that he and four other cardinals sent him ahead of the Synod on Synodality, saying among ...
Final Chapter of the ‘Rigging of a Vatican Synod’
Edward Pentin share's the concluding chapter of his book the The Rigging of a Vatican Synod?: An Investigation of Alleged Manipulation at the Extraordinary Synod on the Family (Ignatius Press ...
How the Family Synods Prepared the Ground for the Synod on Synodality
The first two synods of this pontificate that took place nearly a decade ago set the stage for the synods that followed and contain some useful pointers for the upcoming ...
Five Cardinals Drop Bombshell on Eve of Synod
The dubia were signed by Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, Cardinal Raymond Burke, Cardinal Zen Ze-Kiun, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez and Cardinal Robert Sarah. Five cardinals have sent a set of questions ...
Archbishop of Milan Issues Pastoral Guidance for Homosexual Unions
The archbishop of Europe’s largest archdiocese in terms of number of Catholic faithful has been criticized for releasing pastoral guidelines that appear to define homosexual attraction as love, and equating ...
Fernández Outlines His Distorted Vision as the Vatican’s New Doctrinal Chief
In an extensive new interview published Thursday, Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández has outlined his vision as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, one that places an ...
Francis’ New Doctrine Czar Warns Bishops Against Judging ‘Doctrine of the Holy Father’
The incoming prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has warned that bishops — both “progressive” and those from “traditionalist groups” — who think they have a ...
Professor Rist: The Catholic Church Could Be Facing a Crisis Worse Than the Arian Controversy of the 4th Century
The recent suspension of an Italian priest for writing a scholarly critique of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia was a foolish and “wholly unjust” decision but one that underlines ...
Father Bux: ‘There Is Turmoil in the College of Cardinals’
How serious is the current crisis in the Vatican and the Church and what does it portend for the future? To obtain a clearer idea, I spoke with Father Nicola ...
Synod Chief: Critics of the Synod ‘Won’t Be Able to Stop’ It
One of Pope Francis’ closest aides and a leading figure of the Synod on Synodality has singled out critics of the process, calling them afraid of a “Church on the ...
Who Is Managing the Synod on Synodality?
In light of the controversy stirred up by the working document for the next stage of the multiyear Synod on Synodality, questions have arisen over who prepared it and how ...
Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider Restate Concerns About Restrictions on the Traditional Liturgy
Cardinal Raymond Burke has questioned the basis of papal-led efforts to restrict and eventually eliminate the traditional Latin Mass, while Bishop Athanasius Schneider has said the “millennium-old treasure” cannot be ...
Vatican Inconsistencies: A Tale of Two Bishops
The contrasting recent handling by the Vatican of two bishops has highlighted concerns about discrepancies in the disciplining of bishops, with no explanation available why one of the two bishop ...
