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[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Ferrão defends controversial Amoris Laetitia remarks on changing family structures Ambiguous remarks by the Cardinal of Goa likely to further confuse the faithful, much like original Amoris Laetitia documentCardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão has defended his Amoris Laetitia speech suggesting that the Church must discern how it should change in response to evolving family structures, after questioning over the speech in which he referred to “changing understandings of gender.”The President of the Conference of Bishops of India made the remarks at Pope Leo XIV’s meeting marking ten years since the publication of Amoris Laetitia on 8 October....

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican theologian urges ‘new ways of being’ family, Church at Amoris summit Professor Vincenzo Rosito of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences praised the 'spirit' of Amoris Laetitia and the 'changes' within the Church and family. Professor Vincenzo Rosito, the Vice Dean of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, asked attendees in an address to the ongoing Amoris Laetitia Summit, which praised the 10-year spirit of Pope Francis’ 2016 document, to ponder what is needed to learn new ways of “being a family” and “being a...

[Catholic Caucus] German bishop to share gay couples’ ‘experiences’ at Leo’s Amoris Laetitia summit Bishop Heiner Wilmer's stated intention to bring those experiences with him to the Vatican meeting signals a continued movement toward normalizing homosexuality within the Catholic Church.The president of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) promised to bring the “experiences” of homosexual couples with him to Rome for the Vatican’s upcoming conference on Amoris Laetitia.Bishop Heiner Wilmer, the DBK president, said that he prepared for the Vatican summit by meeting with a wide variety of couples – including same-sex couples and those living in a second civil marriage...

[Catholic Caucus] The Supreme Destiny of ManThe Supreme Destiny of ManBy Roberto de MatteiCorrispondenza RomanaSeptember 23, 2026From October 7 to 14, 2026, the announced gathering will take place at the Vatican between Pope Leo XIV, the heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches sui iuris, and the presidents of the Bishops' Conferences. The event is conceived with the aim of "proceeding, in mutual listening, to a synodal discernment on the steps to be taken to proclaim the Gospel to families today, in the light of Amoris Laetitia and taking into account what is being realized in the local Churches."In preparation for...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV Proves the “Prophets of Doom” Correct: Has the Church Abandoned the Reign of Christ? The “prophets of doom” were supposed to be wrong. But what if they saw exactly where Vatican II was taking the Church? Leo XIV’s latest catechesis on Gaudium et Spes reveals a Church increasingly concerned with water, poverty, pollution and worldly peace, while the old Catholic proclamation of Christ the King has quietly disappeared.On September 2, Leo XIV began his series of catechism lessons on Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes. Oddly, he opened...

Pope’s newspaper pushes feminist rewrite of Catholic doctrine The Pope’s newspaper has published a series reimagining historic Catholic teaching on the devil, sin, and Church history through a feminist-revisionist lens.L’Osservatore Romano – the official newspaper of the Holy See – published a series of articles in its July 2026 women’s supplement, Women Church World, in which several scholars attempt to dismantle the Traditional doctrine on the devil and his real existence, original sin, the capital vices, and the relationship between theology and the Magisterium, applying a feminist-inspired doctrinal revisionism.“Historically, the world can be divided into two distinct periods: one in...

Pope Leo’s newspaper publishes article claiming ‘there is no devil,’ original sin in Book of GenesisL'Osservatore Romano published an article by theologian Marinella Perroni claiming Genesis contains no devil and no original sin, arguing that tradition exegesis ‘is reduced to sex.’A new essay in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano examining the Book of Genesis argues that the narrative does not deal primarily with the devil and original sin, in contrast with the traditional interpretation.On July 4, L’Osservatore Romano – the official newspaper of the Holy See – published an article by Italian theologian Marinella Perroni, according to whom in the...