civilisationReview

What nonsense. Would you canonise anyone from, for instance, Nazi Germany during the Nazi era, and who didn't actively oppose what the Nazis were doing? This fella, Cardinal John Henry Newman, hailed from Britain, a white supremacist state during the white supremacist colonial era. There are no saints there during that time, only resolute white supremacist sinners, excluding those who spoke up against it. Typical eurocentric rubbish i'm afriad.  One can't expect anything less from an all-white papacy, a legacy of the white supremacist colonial era, who can't see the image of God in man due to the whites of their eyes.  And now we are supposed to recognise this fella as a saint?  And pray to him?  While he was donning cloth that might very well have been cut from textiles imported from India at low cost through forced cultivation of cash crops and shipped to Britain? Yes, this guy may have done a lot of good.  But i'm sure the Nazis in their personal lives might ...

"According to Vatican officials, there are no current plans to allow a change in the bread that is used as matter for the Eucharist. Controversy was afoot after 80-year-old Father Francisco Taborda, S.J., a Brazilian theologian, said in February while attending a seminar in Rome that a watershed debate regarding the Eucharist was a probable topic at the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region in October. Fr. Taborda suggested that wheaten bread could be substituted with yuca, a root common in Latin America in use as a staple food. Also known as manioc or cassava, it is the source of tapioca. The Catholic Church regards wheaten bread and wine as the only suitable matter to be used as species for confecting the Eucharist, the central mystery of the Catholic faith. Fr. Taborda told Crux last month that environmental conditions in the hot and damp climate of the Amazon make communion wafers unsuitably moist. Suggesting a departure from the norm inherited from the Gospel, the Jes...