1Peter5, Maike Hickson: In light of the 21 June remarks by Pope Francis concerning the German intercommunion handout allowing some Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion, Cardinal Brandmüller reminds Catholics now of the fundamental principles involved in this matter. … Continue reading
Category: Heresies and Errors
Catholic Doctrine ‘Unacceptable’? To Whom Metropolitan Kliment?
AsiaNews, Vladimir Rozanskij: Kirill’s great rival in the 2009 patriarchal elections highlights the “unacceptable” differences that exist between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The opinions of Catholics and other heretics about God are “unacceptable”. Report is here.
Pan-Amazon Synod for 2019: Married Priests and Even ‘Women Priests’ on Agenda
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: The Vatican presented something important today, 8 June, at a press conference: the Preparatory Document for the upcoming 2019 Pan-Amazon Synod in which there is now talk about giving women some “type of official ministry” and of making … Continue reading
Iconoclasm Alive and Active in Baptist SC ‘Church’
One wonders if a two-dimensional picture of Jesus is OK with these Baptists? A three-dimensional Jesus is just “too Catholic”. Which is to say, “too-Incarnational.” CNA, Mary Rezac: Jesus is being evicted from a South Carolina church, and he must be … Continue reading
Crdl Mueller Says ‘Homophobia’ Is An ‘Invention of Totalitarians, It’s Not Reality
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has given an interview to the Italian journalist Costanza Miriano, who works for the Italian television broadcaster RIA. In this new interview, the German cardinal rejects … Continue reading
Crdl Kasper: Some Protestants Are ‘Fresh Cells in the Body of Christ’s Church’
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: Yesterday, I received a letter from an eyewitness who recently heard Cardinal Walter Kasper speak about Pope Francis and the intercommunion debate. In this 10 May speech, Kasper called Protestant spouses of Catholics “fresh cells in the Body … Continue reading
God Lite, or: a Girlie Religion for a Girlie Culture
The last time I did jury duty I was outside on the courthouse plaza smoking during a break when a young man, a millennial, approached me and asked for a cigarette. I was surprised. Sixty years ago, when I was … Continue reading
The Terrible Fraud of ‘Transgender Medicine’
From the good folks at MassResistance, who now have a YouTube channel: At the Teens4Truth Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, Nov. 18, 2017. A physician who was in the Johns Hopkins Univ. Hospital group where “transgender medicine” was developed describes the … Continue reading
The Evil That We Are
Little Alfie Evans is dead. The poor mite had little hope, humanly speaking, in any case; but the determination of the British medical, bureaucratic, and judicial establishment to kill him — in the face of an Italian government that was … Continue reading
Roman Conference Upholds Immutability of Catholic Moral Doctrine
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: Today, 7 April, the much-expected conference on “Catholic Church, where are you going?” took place in Rome. The conference was inspired by the late Cardinal Carlo Caffarra – one of the four dubia cardinals – who died last September. At … Continue reading
Cardinal Schönborn Says Ecumenical Council Could Approve of Women’s ‘Ordination’
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: During Easter, not only did a German priest and monk declare that he could well imagine a female pope in the future, but Cardinal Christoph Schönborn – whom Pope Francis has called a “great theologian” and to whom the pope entrusted the … Continue reading
‘A Teaching Moment’ About Hell? Well, How About It?
Crux, John L. Allen, Jr.: Ferment around Pope Francis’s latest bombshell “interview,” in which the pontiff was quoted denying Hell, shows no signs of fading, as an Italian columnist was fired this week after saying the interview was “fake news,” … Continue reading
Testimony of Three Second Century Fathers on Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist
Tom Nash, Catholic Answers: In a recent article that has received a lot of attention online, Protestant apologist Brian Culliton argues that a close reading of the early Church Fathers illustrates they didn’t believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The … Continue reading
The Heresy of Americanism and the Spanish-American War
The heresy of Americanism, condemned in 1899 by Pope Leo XIII in his apostolic letter Testem benevolentiae, arose in France but got its name on account of it finding in the U.S. soil in which to take root and bishops … Continue reading