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Cardinal Müller Challenges Pope Francis: No Authority To Change Teaching Of Church

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

In an interview with Infovaticana, German prelate, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has warned that Pope Francis has no authority to change the teaching of the Church. This is not the first … Continue reading →

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When England returns to Walsingham, Our Lady will return to England

Posted on September 24, 2022 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

The following article was published here on CP&S in 2011 with permission from the author. It had originally appeared in the UK Catholic Herald the previous year. Today 24th September, the feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, we are happy … Continue reading →

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There is no Human Right to Abortion 

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

by David Albert Jones* on the Catholic Herald – May 24, 2022. In 1973 in the Roe v Wade case, the Supreme Court legalised abortion throughout the United States.  Now, almost fifty years later the same court is considering overturning that … Continue reading →

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Whenever we celebrate the Eucharist, memory is more than recall. It is a sharing in all that is remembered, a true encounter with Christ

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

The Resurrection of the Son of the Widow of Nain (1814) by Jean-Baptiste Wicar Whenever we celebrate the Eucharist, memory is more than recall. It is a sharing in all that is remembered, a true encounter with Christ “‘On the … Continue reading →

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Letters from the Synod: October 10, 2015

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Gertrude

by Xavier Rynne II from: The Catholic Herald. Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy (CNS) Reports and commentary, from Rome and elsewhere, on the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops As Synod-2015 … Continue reading →

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The whitewashing of England’s Catholic history

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

from: The Catholic Herald:  http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2015/06/16/ by Ed West A 19th century view of Magna Carta The invention of liberty, literacy and prosperity have all been wrongly portrayed as Protestant developments Last week I was writing about Magna Carta and how … Continue reading →

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Vatican official reaffirms teaching on divorced and remarried Catholics

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

Archbishop Gerhard Müller (CNS)   From the Catholic Herald online: Amid rising expectations that the Catholic Church might make it easier for divorced and remarried members to receive Communion, the Vatican’s highest doctrinal official reaffirmed Church teaching barring such persons … Continue reading →

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Ss Jean de Brébeuf & Isaac Jogues

Posted on October 11, 2013 by The Raven

From the Catholic Herald: The 32-year-old French Jesuit Jean de Brébeuf travelled to New France in North America in 1625. He worked with the Huron, an Iroquoian tribe famous for their ferocity, with whom the French settlers traded.

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Priest who died of hunger in Communist prison to be beatified

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

From: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/ A priest who died of cold and hunger in a Communist prison will be beatified as a martyr in Romania. Archbishop Ioan Robu of Bucharest, president of the Romanian bishops’ conference, said the sanctity of Mgr Vladimir Ghika had … Continue reading →

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Is it time the Catholic Church got out of the marriage business?

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

From: The Catholic Herald It’s time we considered adopting the French system By Francis Phillips Is it time for the Church to leave this to the state? (AP Photo) An item in the Telegraph for 21 July has caught my … Continue reading →

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Doctors criticise bishops’ report into Liverpool Care Pathway

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Gertrude

From: The Catholic Herald, http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/ By MADELEINE TEAHAN Baroness Neuberger is chair of an inquiry into the LCP (Photo: PA) Senior Catholic doctors have said that a bishops’ conference report about the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) “borders on the disingenuous” adding … Continue reading →

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Interview with Bishop Mark Davies

Posted on January 5, 2013 by mmvc61

Luke Coppen’s interview with Bishop Mark Davies was published in the Catholic Herald’s Christmas edition. You can read it in its entirety on the website of the diocese of Shrewsbury or gain a flavour here: LC: I just want to ask first of … Continue reading →

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Important arguments about the Liverpool Care Pathway

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Gertrude

The debate about the use of the Liverpool Care Pathway continues. The following, from John Smeaton (http://spuc-director.blogspot.co.uk) is worthy of as wide a distribution as possible. This past weekend’s Catholic Herald contains two letters about the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP). … Continue reading →

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SSPX: “We do not have to accept Vatican II completely”.

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

By Cindy Wooden   Bishop Fellay (CNS photo) The leader of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X has said talks with the Vatican demonstrate that “Rome no longer makes total acceptance” of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council a … Continue reading →

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The SSPX is apparently about to go into schism over Bishop Fellay’s plans to return ‘within the walls’; we need him back and should pray that his opponents fail

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

Bishop Bernard Fellay (CNS photo) By William Oddie from CatholicHerald.co.uk: What exactly is going on in the SSPX? On Wednesday last week, a“communiqué” was issued by the SSPX “General House,” which I suppose means its headquarters, condemning the circulation on the … Continue reading →

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