Danger and salvation – At Bishop Bentz’s ordination, Cardinal Lehmann about...
In his homily at the ordination of Bishop Udo Bentz as auxiliary bishop of Mainz, last Sunday, Cardinal Karl Lehmann drew heavily on St. Augustine, and especially on his thoughts on the office of...
View ArticleBishop Van Looy’s powerful Synod plea for service
Another day, another Belgian Synod intervention. Today it’s Bishop Luc Van Looy who makes a powerful plea for charity and service. It is, he says, the way towards hope and credibility. Read the...
View ArticleGermanicus 2 – the German language group digs into mercy and truth
The language groups have published their second summaries of their discussions about the second part of the Instrumentum laboris. The German group gets decidedly more theological in theirs, as they...
View ArticleThe tension between doctrine and reality – Cardinal Marx’s intervention
Earlier today we had a short Synod intervention from Cardinal Danneels, and now one of the longest, from Cardinal Reinhard Marx. It’s also one of the most fearless, as the German cardinal talks about...
View ArticleThe Synod – time for some personal thoughts
There is so much talk about the Synod that it’s hard to decide what to blog about it when available blogging hours per day are limited. Should I focus on what I thought about all the interventions, the...
View ArticleCorpus Christi – The Eucharist as source and summit
While it is celebrated in the Netherlands next Sunday, today is the actual day of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi, the feast day devoted to one of the most...
View ArticleCardinal Antonelli gets it
In the most recent book by a cardinal on that most visible question of the Synod – Should divorced and remarried faithful be able to receive the Eucharist? – Cardinal Ennio Antonelli points out ho we –...
View ArticleA small treasure among palaces – A visit to Copenhagen’s Cathedral of St. Ansgar
For the past two weeks, my fiancée and I have been vacationing in Sweden and Denmark, and on Sunday the 19th we attended Mass at Copenhagen’s cathedral of St. Ansgar. Bishop Czeslaw Kozon offered the...
View ArticleLove, trust and Jacob – Archbishop Koch’s homily
In an almost 2,000-word long homily during his installation Mass as archbishop of Berlin, Archbishop Heiner Koch took the figure of Jacob as a starting point to delve into what the love of and for God...
View ArticleRefugees, pastoral care, mercy and a selfie – the German bishops’ plenary has...
Evidently some of the auxiliary bishops (and one ordinary) have too much time on their hands at the autumn plenary of the German bishops… Time enough to take a bishops selfie. They may be excused...
View ArticleDanger and salvation – At Bishop Bentz’s ordination, Cardinal Lehmann about...
In his homily at the ordination of Bishop Udo Bentz as auxiliary bishop of Mainz, last Sunday, Cardinal Karl Lehmann drew heavily on St. Augustine, and especially on his thoughts on the office of...
View ArticleBishop Van Looy’s powerful Synod plea for service
Another day, another Belgian Synod intervention. Today it’s Bishop Luc Van Looy who makes a powerful plea for charity and service. It is, he says, the way towards hope and credibility. Read the...
View ArticleGermanicus 2 – the German language group digs into mercy and truth
The language groups have published their second summaries of their discussions about the second part of the Instrumentum laboris. The German group gets decidedly more theological in theirs, as they...
View ArticleThe tension between doctrine and reality – Cardinal Marx’s intervention
Earlier today we had a short Synod intervention from Cardinal Danneels, and now one of the longest, from Cardinal Reinhard Marx. It’s also one of the most fearless, as the German cardinal talks about...
View ArticleThe Synod – time for some personal thoughts
There is so much talk about the Synod that it’s hard to decide what to blog about it when available blogging hours per day are limited. Should I focus on what I thought about all the interventions, the...
View ArticleBishop Hendriks looks back at the Synod and the question of Communion
In his blog, Bishop Jan Hendriks speaks about the headline topic of the Synod of Bishops that was concluded this weekend. Rather than limiting the question to whether divorced and remarried Catholics...
View Article“An uphill marathon”– Cardinal Eijk after the Synod
In a press conference in Rome, snippets of which were released by Katholiek Nieuwsblad and rkkerk.nl, Cardinal Eijk spoke about the Synod of Bishops in which he participated as the sole Dutch Synod...
View ArticleA small treasure among palaces – A visit to Copenhagen’s Cathedral of St. Ansgar
For the past two weeks, my fiancée and I have been vacationing in Sweden and Denmark, and on Sunday the 19th we attended Mass at Copenhagen’s cathedral of St. Ansgar. Bishop Czeslaw Kozon offered the...
View ArticleLove, trust and Jacob – Archbishop Koch’s homily
In an almost 2,000-word long homily during his installation Mass as archbishop of Berlin, Archbishop Heiner Koch took the figure of Jacob as a starting point to delve into what the love of and for God...
View ArticleRefugees, pastoral care, mercy and a selfie – the German bishops’ plenary has...
Evidently some of the auxiliary bishops (and one ordinary) have too much time on their hands at the autumn plenary of the German bishops… Time enough to take a bishops selfie. They may be excused...
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