Filipe Domingues, Author at Crux

Brazilian cardinal says it’s time to move ‘from conservation to mission’
- Interviews
- August 14, 2017
When the Latin American bishops gathered in the Brazilian town of Aparecida in 2007 to plan a pastoral strategy for the continent, then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a chief architect of the document. Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer of São Paulo, Brazil, says they still haven’t lived up to its vision, saying it’s time to shift from “maintenance” to “mission.”
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On Amoris guidelines, Brazil bishops leave sacraments open for some divorced and remarried
- Global Church
- August 11, 2017
Brazil’s bishops do not explicitly assert that remarried people could receive communion in some cases. Instead, they clearly say that a discernment process “is not simply a return to the sacramental life, which is not always possible.” However, their document ponders “limited cases” where mitigating circumstances “may attenuate or even annul” the moral responsibility of people in irregular unions.
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Iraqi martyr remembered in Rome ten years after murder
- Global Church
- June 13, 2017
Rome’s Pontifical Irish College celebrated Holy Trinity Mass in the memory of Father Ragheed Ganni, a former resident. In 2007, the 35-year-old Iraqi priest was shot to death by Islamic militants. Also killed were three subdeacons: Basman Daoud, Ghasan Bidawid and Waheed Isho’a.
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Brazilian cardinal says reform is Pope’s major goal

According to Brazilian Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, the core of Pope Francis’s ecclesiastical reform is to build “a totally missionary Church,” and as part of that picture, Hummes says Francis wants a Church determined to “move and leave” preferentially towards the peripheries.

Brazilian says he’s among the pope’s ‘Cardinals of Mercy’

For new Cardinal Sergio da Rocha of Brazil, “the conception of a Church that controls society is neither theologically justified nor feasible in a complex and pluralistic culture .” However, “a serving, prophetic and merciful Church has much to offer for overcoming social problems.”