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  1. In his latest interview with the secular press, the 87-year-old pope warns that wars around the globe have pushed humanity to "the brink of the abyss". February 2nd, 2024 at 02:28 pm (Europe\Rome...

  2. 18 juin 2024 · The Vatican's document on blessing same-sex couples and remarried divorcees is not aimed primarily at people in "irregular situations", but at those who offer the blessing. By Robert Mickens ...

    • Calls to Abolish Mandatory Priestly Celibacy
    • "Change The Doctrine on Homosexuality"
    • The Vatican Keeps "Passing The Trash"
    • Bishops Reluctant to Open Major Investigations
    • The Church's Current Paradigm Continues to Collapse
    • Tarnished Symbols of The Ecclesiastical "Ancien Regime"
    • A Sovereign Military Order with No Army

    Perhaps it's best to begin with the latest comments from Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich, one of the pope's most trusted aides. The 68-year-old cardinal made a big splash this past week when he said clerical celibacyshould be optional. Marx said it would be better for some priests if there were allowed to be married. And his words carry a lot of w...

    Then there's Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg who has actually called for a change in Catholic teaching on homosexuality. "I believe that the sociological-scientific foundation of this teaching is no longer true," he said bluntly in interviewpublished February 1 in Germany. "I think it's time we make a fundamental revision of the doctri...

    Meanwhile, the seemingly never-ending clergy sex abuse crisis continues to rattle the cages of the ecclesiastical establishment in various parts of the world. One of the latest examples comes from Northern Italy where Bishop Ivo Muser of Bolzano admitted publicly last week that he had made a mistake by allowing an American priest to incardinate int...

    Muser removed the ex-Legionary from ministry several months ago, but the bishop admitted this past week that he handled the entire matter very badly amidst calls for a wider investigation into abuse in the Church. That is something the national episcopal conferences of Italy and Spain have been reluctant to do. The Spanish prelates have outright re...

    Everyone knows exactly what independent reports would find in both Spain and Italy. The same thing all serious investigations have shown us -- that in diocese after diocese, country after country, Catholic officials -- beginning with bishops -- all did the exact same thing. The problem, as Cardinal Marx has been exclaiming, is s-y-s-t-e-m-i-c! Unfo...

    Two symbols of this ecclesiastical ancien regime -- one a person, the other an institution -- saw their legacies further scrutinized and called into question the last several days. The life and work of Benedict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger, the single most influential figure in the Roman Catholic Church in the post-Vatican II period (at least beginning in ...

    The other symbol of Europe's ancien regimeto find itself in crisis is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, which exists in a monarchical paradigm that encompasses both the temporal and spiritual realms. Known more commonly as the Knights of Malta, this 12th Century lay religious order does generous and much needed work through a vast network of h...

  3. The pope’s problem with today’s seminarians and young priests. By Robert Mickens, 21 February 2024. Image: Josh Applegate/Unsplash. If surveys and anecdotal evidence are correct, the younger generation of Catholic clerics are not fond of Pope Francis, which could hinder implementation of his reforms going forward.

  4. 12 avr. 2016 · Robert Mickens is editor-in-chief of Global Pulse. Since 1986, he has lived in Rome, where he studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University before working 11 years at Vatican Radio...

  5. 7 sept. 2015 · Robert Mickens is a Rome-based journalist who has been reporting and commenting on the Vatican and the Catholic Church the past three decades. He is currently editor of Global Pulse, an online magazine launched in late 2014 by the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN) in collaboration with the French daily, La Croix, and the US bi ...

  6. 24 nov. 2014 · In this Skype interview American journalist, Robert Mickens, one of the most respected Pope-watchers and Vatican analysts in the English speaking world, gives his frank views on the relatively...

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