The Wanderer: There is much to be reported on the Synod Front these days, since both sides — those who defend the traditional moral teaching of the Catholic Church and those who try to change or liberalize it — are intensely … Continue reading
Category: Marriage and Family
Simple Explanation of Major Flaw in New (Faster!) Annulment Process
The Catholic Thing: Canonist Father Gerald E. Murray: If the judgment by the bishop is in favor of the validity of the marriage, however, that judgment has no effect and the petition for a declaration of nullity is automatically submitted … Continue reading
Catholic Action League Urges Cardinal O’Malley to Reaffirm Catholic Teaching on Marriage
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today is calling upon Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the Archbishop of Boston, to publicly reaffirm Catholic teaching on the indissolubility of marriage, after a senior member of the Cardinal’s own clergy openly derided that teaching … Continue reading
Good Article on Obligation to Fight SCOTUS Unlawful Attack on Marriage
The Seton Magazine article is excellent especially the following call for supernatural hope at the end: Parents, in discharging the difficult task of educating their children to become good and faithful Catholics in the midst of an increasing adverse society, should … Continue reading
German ‘Radio Vatikan’ Undermines Moral Magisterium with Graphic Homoeroticism
On July 2, Radio Vatikan, the German branch of the official Vatican radio station, published a highly troubling article which summed up the claims of the theologian and president of the European Association of Catholic Theology, Father Martin Lintner, OSM, of … Continue reading
Obergefell v. Hodges: A Moment of Grace
At the end of a short posting on our site, “Rod Dreher on Obergefell and Living as Exiles,” I said about that horrible SCOTUS ruling: “this is a moment of grace for us.” The promise was made to develop that … Continue reading
Resisting Big Government’s Marriage Overreach
Father Mark Pilon thinks that the Government — the States — should get out of the marriage business now that the State has rejected any compelling interest in maintaining an institution that SCOTUS has redefined into oblivion. Instead, religious bodies should do the … Continue reading
Steve Wood’s Warning on Degenerate Proselytism in the Wake of Obergefell
A friend just sent me a newsletter he gets from Steve Wood. It concerns Obergefell v. Hodges and the terrible prospects that wicked bit of judicial activism holds out for our youth. My correspondent is of the opinion that Mr. Wood is one of the few … Continue reading
‘The Family Under Attack’: a Much Needed Guide for the Synod on the Family
Loreto Publications has just published an important and very timely book. The Family Under Attack, written under a pseudonym by a traditional Catholic priest with broad and deep scholarly learning, comes right in time for the second part of the … Continue reading
Glimpses Behind Closed Doors: Marco Tosatti on Cardinal Kasper’s Self-Correction
While observers of the discussion concerning the Synod of Bishops on Marriage and the Family are still wondering what it was that has recently caused Cardinal Walter Kasper suddenly (but stammeringly) to deny that which he had claimed a year or … Continue reading
Sister Lucy to Cardinal: Final Confrontation between the Lord and Satan will be over Family and Marriage.
Rorate Caeli has published a translated excerpt from an interview with Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, the Archbishop of Bologna. The interview took place on Feburary 16, 2008, but has recently stirred up more interest in light of the Synod on the Family. I … Continue reading
The High Cost of Undermining Fatherhood
This is a very important Vortex. Michael Voris encapsulates into a very short video many of the points I’ve tried to make on this site, in such postings as Montfortian Masculinity, The Hearts of the Fathers, Turning the Hearts of … Continue reading
Cardinal Kasper Defends Ireland’s Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Vote
Our friend Maike Hickson, writing for Life Site News, reveals the depth of Cardinal Kasper’s departure from Catholic teaching on marriage. In the name of a false concept of freedom, the former ecumenism chief says that the Irish government has … Continue reading
Dr. Maike Hickson’s Interview With Cardinal Brandmüller
LifeSiteNews: Cardinal Walter Brandmüller has been among the leading voices critical of proposals stemming from the Vatican’s Synod on the Family that risk subverting Catholic teaching on the sacraments and morality. He was one of five cardinals who contributed to … Continue reading
Cardinal Koch Dares to Play the ‘Nazi’ Card (and Well)
Cardinal Kurt Koch, the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has given an interview where he dares to use the ‘N’ word against German liberals. Yes, he compared their progressivist complicity to the zeitgeist to that of certain … Continue reading
