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Fiducia Supplicans: an exercise in smoke and mirrors, where spin becomes substance and appearance reality

December 21, 2023

St John Henry Newman once considered the possibility of the crisis that would emerge if a Church council or a pope introduced a doctrine that contradicted a previous council or a pope. It would shatter the notion of doctrinal development. At first sight the recent document Fiducia Supplicans suggests that this might have happened. Commentators have been

UK’s Confraternity of Catholic Clergy publishes letter reaffirming traditional Church teaching after Fiducia Supplicans

December 21, 2023

An organisation representing some 500 priests in Britain has released a signed letter reaffirming the Church’s teaching regarding marriage and same-sex unions after “widespread confusion” following the Fiducia Supplicans declaration released by the Vatican. The letter’s signatories at the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy explain they felt “impelled to re-assert the traditional teaching of the Catholic

Conservative but not clericalist

May 27, 2022

The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy promotes traditional Catholic teaching, and also provides support for priests who might otherwise feel isolated

‘Happiness lies in accepting how God has made us’: priests issue statement on gender

March 02, 2018

The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy said that gender dysphoria could not be answered by gender reassignment surgery

British priests’ group ‘heartened’ by Amoris Laetitia

April 11, 2016

The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy in England and Wales said it was pleased the exhortation 'calls for a return to the wisdom of Humanae Vitae'

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April 11, 2016

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Catholic clergy declare ‘unwavering fidelity’ to Church ahead of synod

January 12, 2015

The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy met in Rome this week

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