An alt-right compound in the foothills around Rome is being developed by former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon. Bannon is helping establish the institute in collaboration with conservative Catholic organization Dignitatis Humanae Institute. Bannon, who was in Rome last weekend meeting with Benjamin Harnwell, director of the Dignitatis Humanae, confirmed the purpose was to Read more
In what he calls a “final plea”, Cardinal Raymond Burke has again gone public. He wants Pope Francis to clarify his apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia. Burke was one of four cardinals who wrote to Francis last year questioning aspects of Amoris Laetitia. The questions, called dubia, led to the four cardinals being called “the dubia Read more
Pope Francis has reappointed Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke to the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican’s highest court. Burke had earlier served as a prefect of the court for six years. It is nearly three years since Francis removed him. Over that time Francis has removed or failed to reappoint Burke as a member of the Vatican’s Read more
Fans of the Latin Mass are in Rome on their annual pilgrimage at present. At the conference last Thursday marking the 10th anniversary of Benedict’s decree liberalizing use of the Latin Mass, the meeting organizer, the Rev. Vincenzo Nuara, didn’t even mention Pope Francis in his opening remarks. Among those at the conference was Cardinal Read more
Cardinal Raymond Burke, says it’s “necessary” to correct Pope Francis’s teachings in Amoris Laetitia on marriage and the family. Since Francis has not answered the five questions, Burke and three other cardinals put to him last June, he has developed plan to correct Francis’s teachings. “It seems to me that the essence of the correction Read more
Treating every word Pope Francis says as if it were official Church teaching would be to fall into an “idolatry of the papacy,” says Cardinal Raymond Burke. Burke, who is one of the “dubia cardinals” says Catholics seeking to remain true to Christ and the Church he founded must learn to discern between the “words Read more
The four so-called dubia cardinals, who have been asking Pope Francis to clarify the doctrinal consequences of Amoris Laetitia, asked him for an audience in May. Francis has not answered their request or replied to the letter. They released a copy of their letter to the press. The letter was written by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra Read more
Cardinal Raymond Burke says if Pope Francis doesn’t answer the five dubia questions he and three other cardinals put to him about Amoris Laetitia last December, he will correct them himself. Burke says the Pope must answer the dubia questions as they are about the foundations of moral life and the Church’s teaching about good Read more
An ultra conservative movement in the US which has links to the Evangelical Churches and to conservative economists, is behind the opposition to Pope Francis according Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager. He is the recently reinstated Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta. “What the pope says about the world economy naturally angers them and they are Read more
Cardinal Raymond Burke says he’s aiming to wrap up the sex abuse investigation involving Guam’s suspended archbishop by the “summer”. (ie. in the northern hemisphere) He is presiding over the church tribunal hearing the case against Archbishop Anthony Apuron, who faces multiple allegations of sex abuse of altar boys in the 1970s. Apuron has denied the Read more