Columnist: Gaetano Masciullo
Synod Canon Law Proposals Could Make Catholic Church ‘Protestant Community’
Leading canonists have warned proposals to reform Canon Law promoted by the Synod on Synodality would undermine Catholic doctrine and the Second Vatican Council. On October 12, leading canon lawyers ...
The Holy See Legitimizes Panentheism: A Heresy Against the Creator
On August 21, the International Theological Commission published a document entitled “Caring for Our Common Home: A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Trinitarian God.” This document sets out the ...
Vatican Synod Proposes Lay Involvement In Choosing New Bishops
The Synod published two new reports calling for lay faithful and other ecclesial groups to take a more direct role in bishops’ decisions and visits to Rome. On September 8, ...
Vatican Denies Bishop Schneider Latin Mass At St. Peter’s Basilica
'It seems very strange that today the so-called LGBT Catholics can obtain a special Mass in St. Peter's more easily than Catholics attached to the Church’s Tradition,' a source told ...
Vatican Won’t Stop Pro-LGBT Sex Ed After Parents Appeal to Pope Leo
Catholic parents who begged Pope Leo XIV to halt the implementation of pro-LGBT sex education in Hamburg’s Catholic schools received a brief Vatican reply reaffirming Church teaching on gender, but ...
Parents Beg Pope Leo To Halt LGBT Indoctrination In Catholic Schools
A pro-LGBT sex-education program is set to take effect August 20 in 15 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Hamburg, Germany, despite a canonical complaint against Archbishop Stefan Heße and ...
Italian Archbishop Proposes Women ‘Co-Preside’ at Mass
An Italian archbishop proposed exploring a form of liturgical “co-presidency” in which women would lead the Liturgy of the Word while priests would preside over the Eucharistic consecration during Mass ...
Is Immigration Becoming a New Catholic Dogma?
The migrant is presented as the sole holder of rights, while the host community is reduced to a collection of moral debtors, stripped of any legitimate claim to security, identity, ...
Archbishop of Milan Offers Mass For LGBT Group On Feast Of Sacred Heart
Archbishop Mario Delpini of Milan, Italy, celebrated a Mass for an LGBT lobby group on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. On June 12, Delpini ...
Paglia ADMITS Francis Wanted to ‘Adapt Doctrine to the New Times’ on Homosexuality, Moral Theology
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia said Pope Francis deliberately sought to “recreate” the Pontifical Academy for Life and the John Paul II Institute in order to move Catholic theology beyond what he ...
The Catholic Church Is Focusing on the Wrong Crisis
On April 27, two Vatican dicasteries—the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life—published a joint document aimed at raising awareness among Catholic families ...
Brazilian Bishop Says Young Catholics Have A ‘Right’ To Traditional Liturgy
A Brazilian bishop has said young Catholics have a right to Traditional forms of liturgy because Catholicism is inherently “plural.” On April 17, Bishop Joel Portella Amado of Petrópolis, president ...
The ‘Synodal’ Revolution: From Divine Hierarchy to Human Democracy
The crisis of the Catholic Church is, first and foremost, a crisis of authority. Authority does not concern only the doctrinal and moral sphere but, above all, the form and ...
Italian Bishops’ Newspaper Appears to Defend Gender ‘Transitions’ for Minors
The Italian bishops’ newspaper has published a new article which appears to support transgender identification in minors, following a recent court ruling on a self-identifying “transgender” teenager. On January 11, ...
Progressive Turn: Josef Grünwidl Named Archbishop of Vienna
Grünwidl’s appointment as head of the Archdiocese of Vienna is deeply unsettling and concerning—not only for Austrian Catholics, but for Catholics across Europe and indeed around the world. In October ...