Showing posts with label Walter Brandmüller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walter Brandmüller. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Interview with Cardinal Brandmüller

CWR Dispatch/CNA: The Church and sexuality: An interview with Cardinal Brandmüller
“I would argue,” says that German prelate, 90, “the real scandal is that when it comes to this issue, clergy and employees of the Church are not sufficiently distinguishable from society overall.”

Tuesday, January 02, 2018

CWR Interview with Cardinal Brandmüller

CWR: Cardinal Brandmüller reflects on Luther, “Amoris laetitia”, the Dubia, and current situation
An interview with the Church historian and theologian Walter Cardinal Brandmüller conducted by Armin Schwibach of kath.net.

Thursday, September 29, 2016

What are the economics behind married priests in the Roman rite?

1P5: Tosatti & Magister See Married Priests on the Horizon

Only possible where there is a financial base to support priests with families (large parishes) or parishes that have a "full-time" celibate priest and pastor and one "part-time" married priest who has a regular day job; or perhaps older men who have already served deacons will be ordained to the priesthood.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Chiesa: Double Friendly Fire Against the “Pope Emeritus”

First Cardinal Brandmüller, then Bishop Sciacca. The one an illustrious historian, the other a luminary of canon law. Both of the circle closest to Ratzinger. But both absolutely opposed to his continuing to have himself called pope

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Sandro Magister...

Chiesa: Brandmüller: “The Resignation of the Pope Is Possible, But May It Never Happen Again”
The German cardinal, an authoritative historian of Christianity, weighs in on the ever more incandescent question of the resignation of Benedict XVI. Which in his judgment has not been good for the Church


A Pope Like None Before. Somewhat Protestant
The idyll between Francis and the followers of Luther. The alarm of cardinals and bishops against the “Protestantization” of the Catholic Church. But also the distrust of authoritative Lutheran theologians

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Brandmüller on Clerical Celibacy

Chiesa: Francis Speaks, Scalfari Transcribes, Brandmüller Shreds

As a Church historian, the German cardinal refutes the notion according to which clerical celibacy was an invention of the 10th century. No, he objects: its origin is with Jesus and the apostles. And he explains why