Histoire

Half a century ago, Pope Paul VI imposed a liturgical reform on the whole Church in the name of the Council that had just ended. Thus was born the mass of Vatican II. It was immediately rejected by two cardinals and since then the opposition against it has not weakened. This sad anniversary is an opportunity to trace its story. ... Lire la suite »

Pachamama and the Abu Dhabi Declaration On October 27, Bishop Athanasius Schneider published a very complete criticism of this pagan cult, showing the logical – and ideological – connection with the Abu Dhabi Declaration “On the Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” co-signed by Francis and the Great Imam of Al-Azhar, February 4, 2019. The Auxiliary Bishop of ... Lire la suite »

«Aucune foule n’aime la vérité lorsque celle-ci heurte ses illusions vitales.» Malraux. «Le premier attrait de l’histoire des mentalités réside précisément dans son imprécision, (…). » Jacques Le Goff, «Les mentalités, Une histoire ambiguë», in Jacques Le Goff et Pierre Nora (dir.), Faire de l’histoire, III, Nouveaux objets, Paris, Gallimard, 1974. [SPN] I – DE LA DÉFAITE ET DES DÉFAITES ... Lire la suite »

Starting in the spring of 2020, an online platform, named VatiVision, will offer religious, artistic, and cultural audiovisual content related to the Catholic Church. This project was born from the collaboration of two Italian companies: a production company and an international group specialized in the development of digital services. VatiVision wants to build on the success of the Netflix platform, ... Lire la suite »

On October 30, the Vaticanist Sandro Magister, carefully analyzing the elements contained in the Pope’s final speech, indicated the points that are likely to be in the post-synodal exhortation. Women’s Ministries First, the question of which ministries women would have access. The commission of experts that Francis had created in 2016 did not reach any agreement, that is why the ... Lire la suite »

Before intervening in the debate on the foundations of the synodal path as understood by the DBK and the ZdK, Benedict XVI had noted the deficiencies of contemporary German Catholicism, particularly the action of the ZdK, in a speech he gave before its central committee on September 24, 2011, on the occasion of an apostolic trip to his native country ... Lire la suite »

Mary is necessary for each man’s personal salvation. The stupendous Mystery of the Incarnation means that Jesus is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every man. And by the exact same Mystery, Mary was necessary for Jesus, for without Her, there could have been no Incarnation. But incredibly, over 0.8 billion Christians against 1.3 billion Catholics don’t believe that Mary ... Lire la suite »

The Italian Foreign Missions Agency, AsiaNews headlined on October 31: “Turks and jihadists in ‘soft’ ethnic cleansing of Kurds and Christians in North East Syria.” According to international activists and NGOs on the spot, “the Turkish army and the pro-jihadist militias that support the offensive launched by Ankara against the Kurds in the north-east of Syria have perpetrated a ‘soft’ ethnic cleansing ... Lire la suite »

The Conference of Bishops of Portugal (CEP) reaffirmed, at the opening of its Plenary Assembly, its principled opposition to assisted suicide, recalling the teaching of the Church in this matter. On November 11, 2019, at the opening session of the Plenary Assembly of Bishops in Fatima, the Patriarch of Lisbon and President of the Episcopal Conference, Cardinal Manuel Clemente, declared: ... Lire la suite »

As soon as the Amazon Synod (October 6-27, 2019) ended, two statements from German-speaking priests illustrated, as if it were necessary, the dominating influence of the countries on the banks of the Rhine on this synod. In their final document, the synod fathers opened the door to the ordination of married men and women’s access to certain ministries. On November ... Lire la suite »