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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 ...
European Synodality Leaders Scheme To Change The Church
When Catholic leaders from across Europe met in mid-September to discuss "Shaping Synodality in Europe," a consensus quickly emerged that the church's new guiding principle was here to stay. But ...
Synod Proposes Reforming Canon Law To Expand Role Of Laity
The General Secretariat of the Synod has published the Final Report of the Canonical Commission for a Synodal Church, a working document that proposes amending various canons of the Code ...
Germany’s Synodal Way Reaches its Roman Reckoning
Germany’s proposed permanent Synodal Conference has stalled while Rome examines its statutes. In the space of a few days, German bishops, Vatican figures and theologians have exposed the question beneath ...
Archbishop Attending Pachamama Ritual Now Addressing Canadian Bishops On Synodality
The 2026 Canadian Catholic Bishops’ Plenary Assembly will see the Canadian Church leaders hear reflections on synodality from a Peruvian bishop who was appointed as an archbishop by Pope Leo ...
Bishop Marian Eleganti: The Pseudo-Essianity of the Sentimental
While pastoral care of Amoris Laetitia in dealing with divorced remarried people primarily strived for objectivity or the connection between truth and love, the synodal church operates with a predominantly ...
The Cult of Process: On Why the Modern Church Loves Synodality, But Doesn’t Like You Very Much
Whenever we talk about “problems” in the Church, we first need to determine whether it is a particular problem of the moment, or whether it is the perennial problem of ...
“Irreversible” – The Dictatorship Of What Happened
“No longer to undo”: With these words, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich described the process of synodality initiated by Pope Francis in an address in October 2015: the completed fact of a ...
When Synodality Meets A Closed Door
One dispute can be dismissed as a misunderstanding. Two can be blamed upon personality. By the time Catholics from several unrelated parishes are signing petitions, marching by torchlight, questioning the ...
Is Traditionalism a Dead End? Or Is It the Only Way Out?
Those who answer “yes” to the question posed in the title usually seem to take it for granted that we will somehow always have a majority liberal-progressive Church in which ...
Spanish Conference Convenes Priests To Address Their Ministry In “A More Synodal Church”
The Spanish Episcopal Conference will bring the application of synodality to the concrete exercise of priestly ministry in a national gathering convened for next November 30 in Madrid. Under the ...
Cardinals Praise ‘Irreversible’ Synodality And ‘Healing’ Nature Of Church Decline
Describing Pope Francis’ synodality as “irreversible” and the decline in Church figures as “healing”, two prominent cardinals have weighed in on the future of the Church in Europe. Synodality is ...
Cardinal Marx Criticizes Church ‘Nostalgia’, Rejects Rome ‘Demand List’ And Warns Over Social Media After AfD Gains
Cardinal Reinhard Marx has said Germany’s Synodal Path cannot simply end with a list of demands being sent to Rome, while also criticising “nostalgic” currents within the Church and warning ...
More Reasons Why the Synodal Traitors in Rome Should Officially Change the Name of Their Diabolical “Church”
A number of stories over the past few days once again reminded me that one of the best things that could happen to Catholicism is for the apostate Synodal Church ...
Tepidity, Synodality, and Abuse Deniers
Padre Pio called out tepid Catholics. He claimed that purgatory was filled with souls who were neither rebellious nor filled with zeal. The saint bemoaned those souls who receive the ...
The Church in Crisis – And How We Must NOT Save Her
Twelve issues, uncomfortable truths, and a Catholic way forward I have good news for you and bad news. The bad news is that the Catholic Church is in a crisis ...
Synod Secretariat Responsibilities Appear To Expand In Troubling Development
When presidents of bishops’ conferences and Eastern Catholic patriarchs gather in Rome next month to discuss Amoris laetitia, their meeting will have been organized largely by the Secretariat of the ...
Pope Leo Promotes Synodality Bishop Who Has ‘Courage To Make A Different Church’
Pope Leo XIV appointed a synodality enthusiast who accepts as “open questions” the possibilities of Holy Communion for unrepented active homosexuals and the “ordination” of women to the diaconate. The ...
Synod Reports Call For ‘Gender Equality’ In Church Governance
The Synod issued two new reports this week that include promoting “gender equality” across all positions within the Catholic Church. On September 8, the General Secretariat of the Synod published ...
WATCH: Why Is Evangelization Under Attack in the Catholic Church?
Raymond Arroyo, Fr. Gerald Murray and Robert Royal examine the growing resistance to evangelization, the controversy over proselytizing, and whether the Church is losing sight of its fundamental mission: bringing ...
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, ...
