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The Final Skirmish of the Final Battle? Finally, a Prince of the Church has had the courage to denounce the Instrumentum Laboris (IL) for the upcoming “Pan-Amazon Synod” for what it is: “heretical” and “an attack on the foundations of the Faith.”  The threat goes far beyond even the obvious conspiracy to use the supposed scarcity of priests in the vast but sparely populated tropical forests of the region as a pretext to introduce both married priests and some sort of female “deacon” into the life of the Church.In an interview published by LifeSiteNews, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, one of the...

Cardinal Brandmüller Criticises Communion on the Hand, Mercy Ideology “It is evident that receiving Holy Communion on the tongue while kneeling expresses the faith in Christ's real presence better than Communion in the hand while standing”, according to Cardinal Walter Brandmüller. Talking to LaFedeQuotidiana.it (July 22), Brandmüller, one of the two living Dubia cardinals, further criticises Pope Francis' mercy ideology, “Mercy is only true if it does not contradict but is in harmony with the other Christian virtues: prudence, temperance, fortitude.”

Cardinal: German Politician Who Asked For Female Priests Is a Heretic Cardinal Walter Brandmüller has criticised Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the general-secretary of Merkel’s party CDU, for having said recently that she hopes for the ordination of women to the priesthood and wanted become a priestess herself. Writing in the German weekly Tagespost (May 17), Brandmüller said that Kramp-Karrenbauer as a politician and as a Catholic has crossed borders. Brandmüller stresses that whoever claims that a female priest is possible, has left the foundations of the Catholic Faith. And, “This person has committed the offence of heresy which results in an excommunication...

The history of the Church teaches us that “truth is not necessarily found with the majority,” but rather in the “minority which has truly lived and witnessed to the faith,” Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, one of the four ‘dubia’ cardinal, said today in Rome. Speaking at the symposium ‘Catholic Church: Where are you heading?,’ Cardinal Brandmüller said “when Catholics en masse consider it legitimate to remarry after divorce or use contraception … this is not a mass witness to the faith, but a mass departure from it.” In his reflection, Brandmüller, president emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, Blessed John Henry Newman’s...

At today’s conference in Rome on the state of the Catholic Church – “Catholic Church, where are you going?” – Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, one of the four dubia cardinals, made some stunning remarks about his cherished dubia colleague, Cardinal Joachim Meisner who died last summer. Burke now reveals that, after listening to Cardinal Walter Kasper’s speech on marriage at the Consistory in February of 2014 — the very talk that started the entire process of the opening the door for Holy Communion for the “remarried” at the synods and through eventual publication of Amoris Laetitia in motion — Meisner told...