The two-day meeting of all the world’s cardinals, which Pope Francis held on August 29-30, was something truly extraordinary for this pontificate — and not just because it was held, contrary to custom, in the sweltering heat of the late Roman summer. This was only the second time that Francis has convened the entire College Read more
A leading German philosopher has criticised what he called Pope Francis’s cult of spontaneity and his favouring of deeds over ideas. In an interview in German Catholic journal Herder Korrespondenz, Professor Robert Spaemann said the Pope’s cult of spontaneity is not helpful. “In the Vatican, some people are already sighing: ‘Today, he has already again Read more
The president of the German bishops’ conference says October’s synod on the family cannot prescribe in detail the pastoral practice for Germany. Cardinal Reinhard Marx told a German newspaper the German Church “cannot wait” for synodal statements, as marriage and family ministry has to be undertaken now. The German bishops therefore want to publish their Read more