Catholic Church

By Fr. Gerald Murray, New Daily Compass - I will conclude with a reflection on what I consider to be the animating principles that have inspired the efforts currently underway to re-create the Catholic Church into a Synodal Church, in which Church the hierarchy submits itself and the whole body of the faithful to an ongoing process of determining a new understanding of the meaning of Catholic doctrine and practice.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - I ask all of you to pray for the Synod participants and also for clergy and religious everywhere to listen to God’s Word and proclaim nothing contrary to it. May clergy of every rank and place heed what Pope St. Gregory declared that we will be held accountable not only for we say at a moment like this, but also if we remain silent at a moment like this. Here are St. Gregory’s words are as follows:

By Andreas, Wailzer, LifeSiteNews - The Catholic Lepanto Institute wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that the pope’s new Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum “reads like a UN document proposing a supranational authority to bind all nations to agreements to reduce production and even ban certain ‘environmentally harmful’ products.”... “It is all based upon an interpretation of scientific data that is WAY outside the purview of the pope’s authority or competency and it contains absolutely ZERO magisterially binding statements.”

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - Now, I have been accused of being many things, but a theologian is not one of them. However, it seems to me that if the pope addresses a document to “all people of good will,” we shouldn’t take his words as Catholic teaching, beyond whatever bit of doctrine has slipped into the document here or there. Ultimately, Laudate Deum is more like an opinion piece written by a progressive politician for the WEF or UN than a Catholic teaching document.