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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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Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

Christ’s faithful are at liberty to make known their needs, especially their spiritual needs, and their wishes to the Pastors of the Church. They have the right, indeed at times the duty, in keeping with their knowledge, competence and position, to manifest to the sacred … Continue reading →

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Another Baffling Papal Press Conference

Posted on September 19, 2021 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

From Sunday Report at The American Spectator, by George Neumayr: I have never refused the Eucharist to anyone. No one,” said Pope Francis last week. Speaking to the press on his plane after returning from a trip to Hungary and Slovakia, the … Continue reading →

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The Credo of the Catholic Democrats

Posted on July 13, 2021 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

They issue a declaration of independence from Church teaching. By George Neumayr from The American Spectator: Almost 60 Catholic Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives recently released a statement declaring their “principles.” The statement is a classic illustration of modern liberalism’s … Continue reading →

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The Theological Notes of the Church ~ Fr Ripperger with Ryan Grant

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

This is probably one of the most pertinent and important interviews that Father Ripperger has consented to give, in which he explains degrees of certitude in Church teaching & the degrees of assent required from the same.

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Cardinal Müller: Vatican Amazon Document Contains Heresy and Stupidity ‘That Has Nothing to Do with Christianity’

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

By Debra Heine at PJ Media:   Cardinal Gerhard Müller has joined his German colleague Cardinal Walter Brandmüller in condemning the Vatican’s much-debated working document for the upcoming Synod of the Amazon in the strongest possible terms, calling it a … Continue reading →

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Wherein Fr. Z reads, rants and prays

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

From Father Z’s blog: There is an article today at National Review which has a reaction to Pope Francis’ strange words about the Eucharist.  HERE.   Francis said that, since “there is already unity” among Christians, then we shouldn’t have to … Continue reading →

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Holy Souls in Purgatory

Posted on November 2, 2010 by mmvc61

As Requiem Masses and Funerals have increasingly become “celebrations of life” and homilies often resound with “Gran is in heaven”, some might think that purgatory was thrown out with Vatican II. This could not be further from the truth, for … Continue reading →

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