CDK on the Family

Thrilled to have my essay published by @Athwart_Mag! In it, I discuss the family’s intimate link to the common good of politica communities. I examine Charles De Koninck’s of the common good and his two antecedents, Aristotle and St. Augustine.https://t.co/gSG2k6HWoJ

— Anthony Daoud (@AnthonyDaoud6) August 12, 2020

Crisis: Cardinal Cupich’s Modernist View of the Family by R. Jared Staudt

The accusation of modernism gets thrown around a lot, especially in traditional circles. As a descriptor of heresy, modernism is a vague term. Modernism can refer to a movement of

Being the "Head"

Dalrock: Surely they will be reasonable once they see how reasonable *we* are.

A Curia in Need of a New Mission

Or is one needed if it is no longer necessary for curial officials to produce documents?

Love, sex and marriage in liberal societies

John Haldane - The philosophical foundations of the family

Papal Address to the Diplomatic Corps

The family, always foremost in the thoughts of Pope Francis, was given special attention on January 11 in the speech he...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Wednesday, January 13, 2016

An Opus Dei Take on Marriage

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"Decentralization"

Crisis: Ukrainians React to Papal Calls for “Decentralization” by Alexander R. Sich

Insight Scoop: New: "Eleven Cardinals Speak on Marriage and the Family: Essays from a Pastoral Viewpoint"

By Fr. Robert Dodaro O.S.D.


First Five, Now Seventeen Anti-Kasper Cardinals by Sandro Magister
And they are speaking out together in two books that are about to be released ahead of the synod. With Robert Sarah and the Africans in the lead

Interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider

1P5: Bishop Schneider on the 2015 Synod - original

Fr. Andrea Bozzolo

Fr. Andrea Bozzolo, professor of systematic theology at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy in Milan, speaks about...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Tuesday, August 11, 2015

One of the Panels at This Year's Napa Institute Conference

The CWR Blog: Cdl. Schönborn, Bishops Aquila and Gudziak discuss challenges for families, hopes for upcoming synod by Catherine Harmon

How many recognize the problems caused by feminism and consumerism and capitalism for stable marriages? How prevalent is "frivoce" in Europe?

What is the "Penitential Way"?

Chiesa: Synod. The Preparatory Document’s Arabian Phoenix
by by Sandro Magister

Everybody says there is one, what it is nobody knows. It is the “penitential way” to communion for the divorced and remarried. The Dominican theologian Thomas Michelet lays bare the contradictions

And how is the notion of "penance" here related to metanoia?

Cardinal Kasper Still At It

What Jesus Would Say If He Were a Synod Father by Sandro Magister

He too would grant divorce “for hardness of heart.” As in the time of Moses. This is how the monk Innocenzo Gargano reinterprets the words of Jesus on marriage. New developments in the discussion

Two by Sandro Magister

Synod. Cold Shower for the Innovators
The preparatory document for the October session puts the brakes on communion for the divorced and remarried and on homosexual unions. New voices from Africa and Latin America. All in support of perennial doctrine

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Bergoglio, the Great Diplomat. With the Occasional Strain
With Cuba, Ukraine, China he is realistic in the extreme, even at the cost of afflicting the faithful. But then he challenges Muslim countries on religious freedom. And at the UN he is fighting hard against abortion and “gender” ideology

Working Document Published

The working document for the upcoming Synod Assembly is out.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Presentation to journalists of the Instrumentum laboris of the next Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Family,to be held in the Vatican October 4 - 25. Watch LIVE now!

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Tuesday, June 23, 2015

More Paper

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Wednesday, June 17, 2015

More from the Pontifical Council for the Family...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Asserting Themselves

Eastern Church leaders in Prague discuss Family, Ukraine, discrimination against Church.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, June 8, 2015

Polish, Eastern Catholic bishops stand firm on pastoral care for families

Synod. Rome Has Spoken, But the Case Is Not Closed by Sandro Magister

“La Civiltà Cattolica” has dictated the agenda and conclusions for the upcoming synod on the family. But things could go very differently. The latest developments from France, Germany, Argentina