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To be a really good theologian, you have to speak German. There are a variety of reasons for this: there are lots of good German theologians around, and you need to engage with what they have written in the original language. Moreover, as so much theology...

Cardinal Against Cardinal: Cardinal Marx Gives Cardinal Müller Stinkfinger at Press Conference? SOURCE Cardinal Marx’s Stinkfinger Edit: anyone who knows anything knows that Marx is evil and should be sent to Antarctica to live a lay monk’s life....

Dr. Sandro Magister, the well-respected Vatican expert, has just today published an excellent overview of the current discussion concerning Amoris Laetitia and the subsequent dubia published by the Four Cardinals. He points out that, among the eighteen...

MUNICH, Germany, July 16, 2016–Figures released Friday by the German bishops’ conference draw a bleak picture of the ongoing decline of Catholicism in Germany. However, the head of the conference, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, described...

There has been copious coverage since Friday on the Synod and its after-effects.  I’m sure we will still be processing this most disconcerting and tempestuous of fortnights for some time to come.  I did see a few notes I wanted to bring to your attention...