Former liberation theologian Friar Clodovis Boff, brother of Leonardo Boff, says movement fuelled decline of Catholicism in Brazil @acidigitalgo.shr.lc/45yiL2U From a Latin American friend/Church expert: “This is very important news. In fact, Clodovis split from Leonardo about 10 years ago, accusing liberation theology (of which he was an exponent) of having displaced Our Lord Jesus Christ from the centre of the Catholic religion” 1/3

Pope Francis in new interview calls for “normal seminarians, with their problems, who play soccer, and who don’t go to the neighbourhoods to dogmatise.” He warns against people “trapped in a theology manual, unable to get into trouble and make theology move forward.” 1/5 He says any pastoral approach driven by ideology is “sick from the beginning,” and that “right wing ideologies are perhaps the most dangerous” for the young. “I fear intellectual youth groups, those who summon young people to reflect and then they fill them with weird ideas.” 2/5

John Finnis to Pontifical Academy for Life: Church’s Infallible Teaching Against Contraception Is ‘Certainly True’ | National Catholic Register ncregister.com/news/john-finn… @NCRegister @PontAcadLife #HumanaeVitae Prof. Finnis recalled that the “wrongness of contracepting conjugal intercourse” is a truth that even the progressive German Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner “stated straightforwardly” before the Second Vatican Council.

#COVID19 vaccine victims in Italy call for parliamentary investigation newdailycompass.com/en/vaccine-vic… #VaccineDeaths #vaccineinjuries @lanuovaBQ @RicCascioli The committee — Ascoltami [Listen to Me] — unites 1,800 victims of the anti-Covid vaccine that was supposed to be safe but instead is “disabling thousands of ‘invisible’ victims in Italy who struggle with cardiovascular and neurological problems.”

This year’s #Vatican Nativity scene, revealed tonight, comes from a town in the Abruzzi region of Italy famous for its ceramics. Its creators say it’s meant to have a contemporary and unconventional look influenced by ancient Greek, Sumerian and Egyptian art. Photo: @dibanezgut

A group of lay faithful from around the world are standing in silent prayer in Munich today to ask #PopeFrancis and Germany’s bishops for “clarity and coherence” and an end to “dissimulation and deception” @NCRegister
aciesordinata.org More images from this afternoon’s #AciesOrdinata in Munich aciesordinata.org