But the proponents of the changes are also very active. While the geographic epicenter of the resistance is above all in Africa, that of the innovators is central Europe, in particular Germany, France ...

But Francis has rejected their requests en bloc. And meanwhile, the “Relatio finalis” has disappeared from the program of the synod ROME, October 12, 2015 - On Monday, October 5, at the beginning of ...

The handwritten notes of his remarks to the cardinals at the congregation of March 9. The intention of electing him pope was strengthened. The outcries against the "spiritual worldliness" that ...

Startling resemblances between the key passages of the exhortation by Pope Francis and two texts from ten years ago by his main adviser. A double synod for a solution that had already been written ...

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Jesuit, archbishop of Milan and cardinal, he was the most authoritative and highly praised antagonist of the pontificates of Wojtyla and Ratzinger. His supporters see today in Francis the one who has ...

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The Church had a 1968 upheaval of its own, expressed for example in the Dutch Catechism. The response of pope Montini was the "Credo of the People of God." It has now come to light that it was written ...

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Ce sont ses critères-guides depuis le temps de sa jeunesse. Et maintenant ils inspirent sa manière de gouverner l’Église. Ils sont analysés ici, pour la première fois, par un philosophe et ...

SANDRO MAGISTER was born on the feast of the Guardian Angels in 1943, in the town of Busto Arsizio in the archdiocese of Milan. The following day he was baptized into the Catholic Church. His wife’s ...

Midway through November, his colleagues wanted to elect him president of the Argentine bishops´ conference. He refused. But if there had been a conclave, it would have been difficult for him to refuse ...