This edition of Nuntiatoria considers the common crisis underlying many of the most urgent controversies in the Church and public life: the breakdown of sound judgement and the separation of authority from truth. Its articles examine the manipulation concealed within contemporary synodality, Cardinal Burke’s partial critique of the process, Archbishop Coakley’s defence of it, and the deeper questions of collegiality, Vatican II and ecclesial government.
The edition also turns to the liturgical revolution, the invention of a supposedly primitive Christianity, the Church’s prayers concerning Israel, the continuing growth of the SSPX, and the contrast between flourishing traditional communities and declining official structures. Beyond ecclesiastical affairs, it addresses Bishop Marc Aillet’s warning to Catholic politicians who support euthanasia, Amnesty International’s ideological classification of Christian organisations, the danger posed to religious liberty by proposed conversion-practices legislation, and the urgent need for governors and parents to scrutinise school curricula.
Further contributions consider the destruction caused when accusation replaces due process, the witness of ancient Christian artefacts, the canonical and spiritual questions surrounding Écône, and the lessons of the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost. Taken together, the edition calls for a recovery of clarity, courage, historical memory and the Catholic capacity to judge all things according to truth.