‘Pure Manipulation’: Germans Continue Push for Radical Change After Worldwide Synod

Christoph Sator (L-R) German Bishops Stefan Oster, Bishop Franz-Josef Oberbeck, Bishop Georg Batzing, Bishop Felix Genn and Bishop Bertram Meier pose in front of St. Peter’s Basilica at the end of the Synod on Synodality. NEWS ANALYSIS: How German Church leaders are spinning the Synod on Synodality’s first assembly and planning to influence its concluding […]

‘The Day of Wrath’ — Judgment Day and the Souls in Purgatory

In the old form of the Roman rite, a funeral Mass or a Mass on All Souls’ Day is called a Requiem Mass. That word, “Requiem,” comes from the opening words of the Introit: Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine — “Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord.” Prior to the recitation of the gospel, there is a […]