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In a highly significant move aimed at overcoming the more than 55-year division between the Priestly Society of St. Pius X and the Holy See, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, proposed “a specifically theological dialogue path, with a very precise methodology” to the SSPX to discuss “issues that have not yet been sufficiently clarified” between them.
(RNS) — Cardinal Blase Cupich, head of the Archdiocese of Chicago, has twice told interviewers in recent weeks that priests in the archdiocese have been stopped by federal agents and asked to prove their immigration status — demands he said were “because of their color.”
Cupich made the allegation in a Jan. 17 interview with WTTW, a Chicago PBS affiliate, and in an interview published Friday (Feb. 6) in the U.S. edition of El País, a Spanish newspaper.
“Herod called the magi secretly and ascertained from them the time of the star’s appearance. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, ‘Go and search diligently for the child. When you have found him, bring me word, that I too may go and do him homage’” (Mt 2:7-8).
As we all know, Herod the Great had no intention of paying homage to the newborn king. Although there is no extra-biblical evidence for the Massacre of the Innocents, Herod executed several members of his own family, including his wife, not unlike King Henry VIII.
While violent, military-style operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the streets of American cities continue to draw attention and condemnation, they reflect only part of the experience of those swept up in the raids. Once those people are disappeared from their neighborhoods and communities, they become detainees in a sprawling system of facilities across the country—many of which are not meant to house human beings at all and effectively cut detainees off from the world outside.
Pope Leo has an opportunity to rearticulate the Church’s “positive teaching on democracy”.
In his talk, “Catholicism and Global Politics Today: The Challenge of Integralism and Political Messianism”, Massimo Faggioli, professor in ecclesiology at the Loyola Institute, Dublin, said Pope Leo has an opportunity to rearticulate the Church’s “positive teaching on democracy”.
Prof Faggioli said that “democracy is again in crisis on a global scale” and that there had been increasing pressure on many institutions over the past decade on both sides of the Atlantic.
