
Is Pope Francis Distancing Himself from CDF Same-Sex Blessing Clarification? Unlikely, Say Commentators
The document has prompted an outcry from those in the Church who wish to see a change in teaching, mostly in the German-speaking world.
The document has prompted an outcry from those in the Church who wish to see a change in teaching, mostly in the German-speaking world.
COMMENTARY: The Holy Father’s German gamble failed. He led with an open hand and got a clenched fist in return.
Since Cardinal Sarah’s resignation was accepted in February, the question has been who might be chosen to replace the Guinean cardinal at the head of the liturgy congregation.
The Vatican’s doctrinal office on Monday clarified that the Catholic Church does not have the power to give liturgical blessings of homosexual unions.
The retired bishop of Cheyenne was accused of sexually abusing children in the mid-1970s, and he received many accusations against him in 1989, 1992, 2002, and 2004.
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith says that, while in no way endorsing vaccines derived from aborted fetuses, their use is “morally licit” because “the procured abortion from which these cell lines originate is, on the part of those making use of the resulting vaccines, remote.”
Under the leadership of its current prefect, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, the Vatican office has made a number of recent moves that have garnered praise from theologians.
Despite Pope Francis’ warnings, the leaders of the Church in Germany have refused to back down on their promotion of intercommunion or to change the course on their much-criticized ‘synodal path.’
After pursuing further studies at both Oxford and Cambridge, Cardinal Grech returned to Rome, where he served as an expert at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and taught at several universities attached to the Holy See.
Cardinal Levada, 83, was appointed to lead the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.
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