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When a bishop, not only his subjects, is subject to law.
Like it or not, he has a point.
Some years ago Pope Francis said to dissenters agitating to ordain women, that he is “a son of the Church”, and that he cannot change her doctrines to suit himself or others.
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Will Pope Francis grant Vatican citizenship to Alfie Evans and his father?
Tom Evans asked Pope Francis for asylum & eventual citizenship.
See the EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW of Zenit with the Father of Alfie Evans: “The Pope Told Me ‘No Child’s Life Should Be Taken Away From Him’”.
April 18, 2018 12:23 interview by Deborah Castellano Lubov
A project closer to home than usual – but about par for the course in duration.
Many of NCCL’s projects are long-in-the-works, directed quietly, before fruit is born — or noticed. And most are conducted in far-off places across (more…)
What’s going on here
It’s a question on the mind of many a caller to NCCL, looking for help in the current crisis.
“What does NCCL do, anyway?”
It reminds of an amusing story one of the apostolate’s co-founders, Dr. William (more…)
Romans endure
Read in this post “Part 2” — the happy conclusion — of a ten-year history & project of NCCL action to help restore parish life for a Roman community.
(Part 1, the first ten years, 2005-2015, will (more…)
The lioness & the ewe lamb resided in her: remembering Jean Buschle, NCCL Director
Gone but never forgotten, the founders and former Directors of NCCL continue, even long after death, to influence all the action of this humble apostolate.
That is a sometimes forgotten mark of how democratic tradition really is: (more…)
“Our dedication to Tradition must be total, we cannot settle for anything less.”
The above-named essay, bearing the subtitle, “Mysticism and Human Calculations”, appeared in the June 2015 newsletter of the Catholic community of Vocogno, in the Diocese of Novara, Italy.
We republish the same essay here, below, in English, thanks to (more…)
“Freedom for everything and for all except for evil and evil-doers.”
The above political motto of the great martyr and regenerator of Ecuador, President Gabriel Garcia Moreno, rings today truer & needier than ever.
It is a motto also that encapsulates Moreno’s personal rule, that men who aspire to be saints can make their own, editing it in order to rule their own state in life and spiritual temperament.
(Click here to edit this document for oneself.)
It is practically unthinkable that Pope Francis (more…)
Reform of the Reformer 