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The Failed Defense of the SSPX – Reply to Bocca

Recently, Mr. Joe Bocca wrote a reply to my articles against the SSPX (see here and here).  In my article, I demonstrate that the ministry of the Society is illegitimate due to its lack of a juridical (or extraordinary) mission, according to divine law and the teaching of the Church. In short, the SSPX is […]

Florida Chips Away at Abortion

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (ChurchMilitant.com) – Florida lawmakers are introducing legislation that places limits on abortion, but critics question whether it goes far enough. Molly Smith On Tuesday, both chambers of Florida’s Legislature filed measures that, if passed, would ban physicians in the state from performing surgical abortions on babies who have reached 15 weeks’ gestation. Exceptions are made for cases in which the […]

German canon lawyer: Wait for abuse report before casting blame on Pope Benedict (CNS)

A prominent German law firm will soon release a report on the handling of sex-abuse complaints in the Munich archdiocese under Cardinal Reinhard Marx and his predecessors, including the future Pope Benedict, who led the archdiocese from 1977 to 1981. The Pope Emeritus “welcomes the reappraisal in Munich as well as the publication of the […]

‘Savage wolves’: Patriarch of Alexandria denounces actions of Russian Orthodox Church in Africa (Patriarchate of Alexandria)

Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, who has led the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria since 2004, has issued an encyclical letter denouncing the Moscow Patriarchate after the latter created Russian Orthodox ecclesiastical structures in Africa and received over 100 Alexandrian clergy into the Russian church. Both patriarchates are among the autocephalous churches that make up Eastern […]