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Weighty words from Carlo Cardinal Caffarra
Readers are of course free draw their own conclusions of the interview Carlo Cardinal Caffara gave to Matteo Matzuzzi as published in the Italian newspaper Il Foglio on January 14, 2017. (more…)
Terri Schiavo – Vatican citizenship: another project ‘declassified’
One day in late-March 2005 a simple telephone call to the Holy See’s Secretariat of State — headquarters of the Vatican’s ‘international diplomatic corps’ — received a terse reply, here paraphrased: if it can be done in accordance with international law, we’ll see what can be done.
It was all we needed to hear. (more…)
Newly ‘declassified’: how not to misunderstand a motu proprio – by reading it
NCCL has just ‘declassified’ two hitherto TOP-secret projects.
1. Click here to read letters dated October 27, 2007 to Cardinal Castrillón of the Ecclesia Dei Commission in Rome, (more…)
More ‘declassified’ projects – with the now “Pope Emeritus”, then-Cardinal Ratzinger
Read more about recently declassified projects by clicking on the respective hyperlink. (more…)
Three newly ‘declassified’ projects from NCCL’s ‘TOP SECRET’ archives
Read about three recently declassified projects by clicking on the respective hyperlink. (more…)
Letters to Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos: concelebration is hardly the only sign of communion with one’s bishop
Some people simply cannot read. No matter that they know how to read. Even when they are intelligent, they’ve got to want to read, if they are going to begin to understand what someone else, who has written something, means by it.
That applies even to some bishops and certain cardinals. (more…)
Letters to Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos suggesting how Catholics should, as always, pray for the conversion of Jewish people
Some people simply cannot read. No matter that they know how to read. Even when they are intelligent, they’ve got to want to read, if they are going to begin to understand what someone else, who has written something, means by it.
That applies even to some bishops and certain cardinals. (more…)
Spiritual orphans wish only for ‘no place like home’
Here follows a recently ‘declassified’ correspondence with Darío Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, then-President of the Commission Ecclesia Dei. (more…)
Plea to the Holy See of Rome from ‘Second-Class’ Catholics hurt by representation of some French, German and Belgian bishops
The following “Plea” appeared on NCCL’s website, and was delivered to the Holy Father with many letters from collaborators. (more…)
Reply to insubordination of French Bishops objecting to canonical erection of the Institute of the Good Shepherd & the pending, ‘rumored’ motu proprio
The following text, composed by an Eastern Prelate, was delivered (with the aid of NCCL) to some ‘big wigs’ in Rome, with a request that it be shared with their ‘Boss’. (more…)
Reform of the Reformer 