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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Two important pieces appeared online over the past weekend. Each one summarized a major difficulty facing Pope Francis. Taken together these two short essays convey the impression that the contradictions of this pontificate may be reaching a critical mass; the Pope’s credibility is tottering... Dead Synodality, by Father Raymond de Souza, appearing on The Catholic Thing, is a sweeping tour of the horizon, touching on the Religious Education Congress in Los Angeles, the sacrilegious ceremony in St. Patrick’s cathedral, and fitting these episodes into the broader discussion of “synodality.”

By Louis Knuffke, LifeSiteNews - Cardinal Robert Sarah, former prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, said he is “very proud” that the African bishops have “completely” rejected the controversial Vatican document Fiducia Supplicans that proposes the priestly blessing of couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples... “I think Fiducia Supplicans has a response from the African Bishops — very clear... And not only the African bishops but many in Europe, in Kazakhstan, in Poland, refused, because the document has no scriptural basis, no theological basis.”