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Cardinals Walter Brandmueller of Germany, a former Vatican historian; Raymond Burke of the United States, whom Francis axed as head of the V...

A coalition of conservative Catholic Cardinals announced that they had asked Pope Francis to further clarify the Church's position on same-sex relationships.

The true purpose of the Pope Francis regime will be revealed at next week's synod, but it should have been obvious when "Amoris Laetitia" was published. It is to rehabilitate Charles Curran and his sexual-liberation version of natural law.

It never has to be faith versus reason. Centuries of Christian philosophical and scientific inquiry attest to this.

“If this crisis deepens, utilitarianism will increasingly reduce human beings to objects for manipulation,” he warned, and the 21st century will be “a new era of barbarism, rather than a springtime of hope.”

How do we share the revealed truth found in Christianity, especially when this truth causes discomfort or demands a change in behavior? In Ephesians, St.

Archbishop Fernández is no Joseph Ratzinger in either theological heft or in his relationship to the pope he will serve.

“While exchanges and conflicts of opinion may constitute normal expressions of public life in a representative democracy, moral teaching certainly cannot depend simply upon respect for a process: indeed, it is in no way established by following the rules and deliberative procedures typical of a democracy... Opposition to the teaching of the Churchs Pastors cannot be seen as a legitimate expression either of Christian freedom or of the diversity of the Spirits gifts.”

COMMENTARY: St. John Paul II was convinced that young people were capable of an integral and radical Christian life.

What do the Bishop of Rome and an agnostic Austrian economist have in common? The pursuit of human flourishing via respect for the dignity of the acting human person.