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    Soline Humbert: “Optional memorial: Saint Maria Goretti, stabbed to death in defence of her virtue”.

    July 8 2026
    Phil Dunne
    I agree with Soline and in reply to her question it is clear that women in the church still suffer from ‘a distorted, abusive patriarchal mindset’. I suggest ACP take down this offensive post.
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    Soline Humbert: “Optional memorial: Saint Maria Goretti, stabbed to death in defence of her virtue”.

    July 8 2026
    M G-B
    Today we understand rape as a crime of severe violence and force not an issue of sexual morality. The MAXIMUM sentence for rape can be life in prison.
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    Vatican News: Pope’s final appeal to Society of Saint Pius X: Do not tear the seamless garment of Christ

    June 30 2026
    Peter C. Phan
    Three comments: (1) In the 1980s I was teaching theology at a Catholic university. On a Monday morning, one of my students, age 18, breathlessly told me that he had attended a Latin Mass the previous Sunday. I asked him whether he understood any part of it. He answered 'no' because he did not know Latin. (I regretted those days when I had to "speak" Latin in my studies, and I did it fluently). But he said that he loved the incense, the vestments, and the sense of "mystery" (whatever it was) the Latin Mass gave him. I did tell him that I hoped these things would provide him with enough intellectual support when life gets rough. (2) The SSPX's issues are not only liturgical (rejection of what they call "Montinian" Mass) but doctrinal (the validity of Vatican II's teachings and its many reforms beyond the liturgy). Rome permits the Latin Mass but requires that all these right-wing groups recognize the validity of the reformed sacramental celebrations, especially the Eucharist, and Vatican II's teachings, which the SSPX refuses to do. By ordaining four bishops without papal approval, the SSPX incurred automatic excommunication and became schismatic. I most strongly recommend that after the official declaration that the SSPX is schismatic (which is an ecclesiastical and canonical reality), the Pope and the Roman Curia just let them be and go their own way and make no further official declaration on the matter and make no further attempt at "reconciliation." The door always remains open for them to come in if they wish. They survive by cannibalizing the Vatican's attention; without it and the media's free publicity, they will remain a tiny, irrelevant church relic and eventually disappear, like so many similar groups before them. (3) Sadly, this tempest in the ecclesiastical cup took the attention away from the urgent issue of the potential misuse of AI Pope Leo XIV addresses in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. Let's turn our gaze to it.
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    Peter C. Phan: MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS – Reflections from an Asian Perspective

    June 24 2026
    Peter C. Phan
    I fully agree with Joe O'Leary's comments on the style of MH, especially its length, its overkill of papal citations, its Westerncentric approach, and its potential lack of impact because very few people, including experts and developers of AI, will ever read it. Very few papal encyclicals have achieved any societal impact, with the exceptions of perhaps Rerum Novarum, Pacem in Terris, and Laudato Si. Joe asked if the genre of encyclical still has any use today. I would say yes, IF (a BIG if) it is presented as (1) provisional (not infallible or definitive or even "authoritative" teaching); (2) brief, no more than 5 pages (a kind of executive summary that can be read by all); (3) accompanied by a multinational, ecumenical, and interreligious "commission" to implement it (no longer an exclusively Roman, Christian, and Western club); (4) the brief statement may be followed by a somewhat longer, lucid document (not "encyclical"), for the study by scholars of different disciplines. The age of lengthy encyclicals, with self-referential citations, is long gone. Will Joe's concern be heeded by the Roman Curia? Let's pray that it will.
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