The Association of US Catholic Priests has written to Pope Francis protesting comments by the Vatican’s doctrine chief against some American nuns. On April 30, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prefect Cardinal Gerhard Muller made blunt criticisms of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Among his charges were that the LCWR was promoting Read more
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Battle lines drawn for Family Synod
Friday, June 6th, 2014
Pope Francis has called an extraordinary synod of bishops on the family in October. The hot button issue for the gathering is already well known – whether divorced and remarried Catholics can or should be able to receive the Eucharist. Battles lines at the Vatican have already been drawn in the differing views expressed by Read more
Progressive coalition calls for Rome apology for LCWR criticism
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
A coalition of 16 United States progressive Catholic groups has written to Pope Francis asking for a public apology to American nuns and a theologian. The Nun Justice Project wrote an open letter regarding recent comments by Cardinal Gerhard Müller to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. On April 30, Cardinal Müller, the prefect of Read more
US women religious respond to Vatican congregation charges
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
A major leadership group of US women religious says two years of meetings with the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation has resulted in mistrust. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious said in a statement released on May 8 that communication had broken down with the congregation and, as a result, “mistrust has developed”. On April 30, at Read more
When will the CDF learn?
Friday, May 9th, 2014
Whac-A-Nun season opened with a bang in Rome as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) again excoriated the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). Rapped knuckles belonged to LCWR, to Fordham theologian Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, and to any other American woman walking around with letters after her name. Even Seattle Archbishop J. Read more
Vatican’s doctrine chief slams US religious women’s leadership
Friday, May 9th, 2014
The Vatican’s doctrine chief has told the leaders of 40,000 United States women religious that they are in danger of moving away from the Christian faith and the Church. In Rome on April 30, Cardinal Gerhard Müller objected to a growing “focus of attention” within the Leadership Conference of Women Religious on a concept called Read more
Liberation theology, the CDF and Gutierrez
Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
For decades, many liberation theologians globally have lived with a looming possibility: One day, a letter could arrive from the Vatican contesting their work, even calling it heretical or anti-Christian. Mounting a defense could take years, with long, confidential letters sent back and forth to the Vatican’s powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Read more
Muller says he is not Pope Francis’ conservative opponent
Friday, February 14th, 2014
Just days before being made a Cardinal, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had taken time to clarify he is not Pope Francis’ conservative opponent. In the interview, published by German Catholic news agency Kathpress Archbishop Gerhard Muller protests against being called Francis’ opponent. Admitting he and Francis had different philosophical, Read more
New cardinals expected to be named in February
Friday, November 1st, 2013
Pope Francis will call a consistory next February to bestow red hats on a group of new cardinals, a news agency has reported. The Rome-based French religious agency I-Media says the consistory will be on February 21 and 22, following a two-day meeting of the Pope with the entire College of Cardinals to discuss his Read more
Communion for remarried divorcees still forbidden
Friday, October 25th, 2013
The prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has strongly affirmed the Catholic Church’s teaching that Communion for remarried divorcees is forbidden. But Archbishop Gerhard L. Muller acknowledged that many Catholics’ first marriages might be invalid, and thus eligible for annulment, if spouses had been influenced by prevailing contemporary conceptions of marriage Read more