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...while heretical and immoral bishops can do as they please". Cardinal Gerhard Müller: “Yes, it is terrible what is being done to Bishop Strickland, an abuse of office against the divine right of the episcopate. If I could advise Bishop Strickland..."

News & ViewsWednesday November 13th, 2019 Clergy and Laity to Pope Francis: We Have Had Enough of This Insanity by Chris Ferrara Fatima Perspectives #1352 As LifeSiteNews has just reported (Nov. 12): “An international group of 100 priests and lay scholars published a statement today to protest the pagan worship of Pachamama that took place last month during the Amazon Synod in Rome with Pope Francis’ active participation and apparent support.”I am one of the signatories and drafters of this document.  Quite simply, it is a declaration by concerned clergy and laity alike that an already wayward pontificate has...

The Rt. Rev. Stephen Bouman Metropolitan New York Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Dear Bishop: These lines are in response to the request to read and comment upon the correspondence between you and Pr. Gregory Fryer. I think it will be appropriate to address my observations more directly to you, and copy Pr. Fryer. First, I hope you will allow me to say how impressed I am with your theological seriousness, which one does not always find among mainline Protestant bishops. Nor does one encounter many pastors who would like Pr. Fryer be able to sustain such a theological...

LONDON (CNS) -- A Vatican cardinal has warned the Church of England that a move to ordain women as bishops would destroy any chance of full unity with the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said that if the Church of England adopted such a resolution the "shared partaking of the one Lord's table, which we long for so earnestly, would disappear into the far and ultimately unreachable distance." "Instead of moving toward one another, we would simply coexist alongside each other," he said. His remarks came in a speech...