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Synod canon law proposals could make Catholic Church ‘Protestant community’ Canonists warn that proposed canon law reforms from the Synod on Synodality to transfer governing power to laypeople would ‘undermine the nature of the Church.’ Leading canonists have warned proposals to reform Canon Law promoted by the Synod on Synodality would undermine Catholic doctrine and the Second Vatican Council.On October 12, leading canon lawyers warned in a report published by the National Catholic Register that proposed reforms to the Code of Canon Law, emerging from the Synod on Synodality, could undermine the Church’s divine constitution. The proposals would introduce a...

Murr explains the unsettling Bugnini case: “Look, Your Holiness, you have a Freemason in charge of the new liturgy and all the sacraments” Of the two-hour conversation that Father Charles Theodore Murr held with Pedro Buerbaum on WORLDCA$T, which InfoVaticana already reported in its chronicle on the death of John Paul I, there is a passage that deserves separate reading. It is the one dedicated to Monsignor Annibale Bugnini, the Vincentian religious who designed the post-conciliar liturgical reform and who, according to the testimony of the former collaborator of Archbishop Édouard Gagnon, was the spark that ignited Paul VI’s major...