Cardinal McElroy hails Leo XIV’s shift from “unfortunate” Catechism teaching.
Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, writing at NcROnline.org on September 23, said that “during the past six months, we have witnessed a remarkable transformation in Catholic teaching on war.”
McElroy praised the “tremendous progress” made during that period toward “eclipsing the role of the just war tradition in Catholic teaching.”
“The just war framework has been distorted to become a source of justification for those inclined to go to war, rather than a constraint on war,” McElroy claimed.
Then this: “One of the accelerants for this trend is the unfortunate statement in the Catechism of the Catholic Church that the evaluation of the just war criteria belongs to those who have responsibility for the common good.”
The cardinal's statement comes in the wake of Leo XIV’s encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas'. In §192, Leo XIV writes that just-war theory “is now outdated.”
However, Catechism 2309 doesn’t say …
War is a punishment for sin. Some wars are justified. If there were never any wars, Catholic civilization would probably not exist.
00:44Beatification of Fulton Sheen begins.
As far as I know, there was not mention of this on Fox News with Bret B.
01:13C’è ancora qualcosa di Cattolico? Venghino, siori, venghino: al gran circo del funerale di Thierry Parmentier a Caldogno!
This is the worship of the Golden Calf.
The click is dying. Gloria.tv flourishes.
“Social media is becoming an increasingly urgent issue in communications,” Cardinal Marx of Munich - not exactly known for his Catholic convictions - observed on Monday.
Cardinal Marx added: “The media landscape is undergoing a profound transformation. We are witnessing a turning point.”
On that, he is right.
The old model of editorial, paternalistic media is fading. Users want a voice of their own. They increasingly consume headlines and news snippets directly in their feeds without ever clicking through.
We see it on Gloria.tv: about 90% of users never get beyond roughly 1,000 characters.
Gloria.tv has changed with the media landscape — into a social network. And it works: Gloria.tv ranks among the 10,000 largest websites worldwide on Cloudflare Radar.
But success doesn't pay the bills.
Our autumn fundraising goal is €10,000. That would give us breathing room until Advent.
For almost twenty years, Gloria.tv has been short of money. That, too,…
This looks like a staged photograph. If it is supposed to take place in Germany, why is the newspaper written in Italian?
Spanish Conference Convenes Priests To Address Their Ministry In “A More Synodal Church”
The Spanish Episcopal Conference will bring the application of synodality to the concrete exercise of priestly ministry in a national gathering convened for next November 30 in Madrid. Under the title “Presbyters: Servants of Communion,” archpriests, episcopal vicars, and clergy delegates will reflect on the role of the priest within “a more synodal Church” and on the so-called “differentiated co-responsibility” among the various vocations.
The day is not intended to remain limited to those attending the meeting. As the official convocation of the Spanish Episcopal Conference explains, the work carried out in Madrid “will serve as a basis to encourage subsequent reflection with priests in the dioceses.”
The meeting is jointly organized by the Synodal Team of the CEE and the Episcopal Commission for Clergy and Seminaries and forms part of the pastoral actions outlined in the Episcopal Conference’s …complicitclergy.com
The Catholic Church is not a democracy. It is a hierarchy, which was instituted by Christ. Our Lord put one man in charge of His Church, St. Peter, the first pope.