The good Catholic takes on the Mind, the perennial Teachings of the Church. Not what we might feel to be right from our own thoughts and feelings. The Teaching of the Church is that Capital Punishment is acceptable as is recourse to War. This is the Teaching of the Church which should be the Mind of the Faithful Catholic. A Pope and Pope is to confirm and protect the Deposit of the Faith, not to attempt to change it. Sign. Sometimes I am tempted to despair.
I was following Pope Leo's visit to Spain, and I got the impression that he bears a strong resemblance to Pope John Paul I, the "Smiling Pope."
Interesting. I wonder what Patriarch Bartholomew means exactly by the restoration of full communion with Rome?
I think he is waiting for a new development in Synodality that would seek to reassess the theological interpretation of the Primacy of Peter.
I saw a really wonderful homily from Fulton Sheen this morning about Judas in the highest places: He was so prophetic:
