Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, has given an interview outside the Synod in which he said:
“When we talk about doctrinal givens, things that are fixed, we’re talking about something such as In what does marriage consist? The reception of Communion is not a doctrinal position. It’s a
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Msgr. Jean-Paul Vesco, Bishop of Oran in Algeria, in a text published by the weekly magazine La Vie (English translation)has said:
“I firmly believe that it is theologically possible to assert the indissolubility of real conjugal love and the uniqueness of sacramental marriage, and at the same time
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ROME, 7 October 2014: A testimony given to the Synod about welcoming homosexual couples has been called ‘damaging’ by a concerned international coalition of pro-family groups.
Voice of the Family http://voiceofthefamily.info made the comments following the testimony given yesterday by Ron and Mavis Pirola, one of the married couples …
Key extracts from Familiaris Consortio, the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope John Paul II promulgated following the 1980 Synod of Bishops
The crisis in the family
At a moment of history in which the family is the object of numerous forces that seek to destroy it or in some …
Cardinal Raymond Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (the Church’s highest judicial authority, has given a wide-ranging and particularly hard-hitting interview to Vatican Radio. Every part of the interview is valuable, so it is hard to choose the most important quotations. Here is our best selection:
“One of the
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Cardinal Raymond Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (the Church’s highest judicial authority, has given a wide-ranging and particularly hard-hitting interview to Vatican Radio. Every part of the interview is valuable, so it is hard to choose the most important quotations. Here is our best selection:
“One of the
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Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, president emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, has given a strong interview to the Catholic News Agency in which he makes clear that:
“Under no circumstances can pastoral work be in contradiction with doctrine. Actions of the Church need to – if they want
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Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, president emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, has given a strong interview to the Catholic News Agency in which he makes clear that:
“Under no circumstances can pastoral work be in contradiction with doctrine. Actions of the Church need to – if they want
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Rome, 6 October 2014: Radical proposals by a Belgian bishop for the family Synod in Rome have been rejected comprehensively by a international coalition of pro-family groups.
Johan Bonny, the Catholic bishop of Antwerp, made the proposals in an Open Letter, published 1 September.
The response by Voice …
Rome, 6 October 2014: Radical proposals by a Belgian bishop for the family Synod in Rome have been rejected comprehensively by a growing international coalition of pro-family groups.
Johan Bonny, the Catholic bishop of Antwerp, made the proposals in an Open Letter, published 1 September http://kerknet.be/admin/files/assets/subsites/4/documenten/SYNOD_ON_FAMILY_ENG.pdf
The response by …
