On 5 August, a law will come into force obliging even religious institutions to facilitate assisted suicide. Four congregations of nuns are taking the Democrat-governed state to court. Bishop Barres stands with them: 'We will never submit to New York's culture of death.'
The Society of Saint Pius X lodges an appeal, but excommunications stand
The Lefebvrian bishops were consecrated on the basis that any condemnation would be invalid; they are now asking Rome to revoke the decree. However, the excommunication latae sententiae takes effect before, and irrespective of, the relevant judgement. The consequences are uncertain, but the contradiction regarding Petrine authority is clear: it is recognised, but only in order to act against it.
Euthanasia: the French bishops’ resistance is a lesson for the Italian Bishops’ Conference
For years, the French episcopate has justified its opposition to the law on euthanasia and assisted suicide. Now that the law has been passed, the French bishops have issued an unequivocal condemnation. Some bishops have even warned pro-euthanasia MPs that they will not be permitted to receive Holy Communion. This stance is very different from that of the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI), which favours a 'democratic' law
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China–Écône: who is forcing regularisation and who is rejecting it?
Why not recognise the bishops of the Fraternity in the same way as those imposed by Beijing? The latter, in effect, invite themselves into communion with Rome, whilst the former exclude themselves from it in order to operate independently. The Chinese government’s appointments remain questionable, but they do not justify the Lefebvrian schism.
Invited by the ECR Group in the European Parliament, the cardinal does not mince his words; on the contrary, he exposes the distorted use of such language to convey and impose – even outside Europe – an anthropological vision that runs counter to faith and reason, one that has been artificially created in the ‘corridors of Brussels’. It is a message that also resonates within the Church itself.
- Europe is changing the language to destroy man and the family by Robert Sarah
The charism of Saint Camillus: caring for the sick with a mother’s tenderness
St Camillus de Lellis “called for the sick to be cared for with the same affection and tenderness that a mother has for her only sick child”. To mark the liturgical commemoration of the founder of the Ministers of the Sick, La Bussola interviews the Camillian Ange Désiré Ouedraogo.
True and False Obedience: What a Confusion Among Écône Supporters
Monsignor Pozzo: in 2018, it was the Fraternity that rejected the agreement
The Écône schism is “a serious wound to the Church that could have been avoided” eight years ago: it was not the Apostolic See that closed the door, but the Fraternity that demanded Rome correct its errors and reject the Declaration – “the result of a joint effort” – as the former secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei recalls in La Bussola.
“The agreement is unrealistic; Lebanon still has no future”
La Bussola interviews Father Abdo Raad, a Lebanese priest and founder of the Annas Linnas Association: “The peace agreement is merely a starting point that does not realistically address the main problem: the plight of the 400,000 Palestinians living in dire conditions. The country is in the grip of a devastating economic crisis caused by the war and corruption.”
US, 250 years of independence, it was not a revolution
On 4 July 1776, a new nation was born, free from British taxes and European turmoil. This event was radically different from the project to reshape man and society in France. This American advantage was gradually eroded from 1968 onwards.
The Vendean genocide debunks the myth of the French Revolution
An interview with the French historian who brought to light the horrors unleashed in revolutionary France against the people of the Vendée, who were guilty of having risen up against the new rulers. It was renamed ‘Avenged’ following the repression. And then forgotten.